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In a recent column, publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin questions whether big publishers’ Agency pricing may be working against them. And he listens for the growl of a major author jumping to the indie side.

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In its latest Fair Contracts Initiative position paper, the Authors Guild takes on questions of how long a publisher should control a writer’s content — and how starkly that may need to change in the digital era.

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Among North America’s most professionally produced author events, the 2015 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference dances into New York this week, as Manuscript WishList tells writers just what moves literary agents are looking for.

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Five years after his introduction of ‘The Elements,’ digital book developer Theodore Gray’s Touchpress animates the principles he discussed in 2010. “Programmers,” he said then, “need to be treated as top talent, just like authors.”

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At Boston’s GrubStreet creative writing center and online at Writer Unboxed, new efforts to bring diverse voices into publishing heighten a bookish search for relevance and authors’ growing sense of shared responsibility.

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Amid soaring sales figures and whole chapters of controversy, key points of debate around the release of Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’ focus on characterizations of Atticus Finch and the fact of the manuscript’s publication itself.

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On the day before Twitter’s ninth birthday, NASA’s New Horizons flyby of Pluto went off as planned — and survey results from Pew Research indicated that users of Twitter are turning to it more and more for news.

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As “author service” offers pop up on all sides of writers — both indies and traditionally publishing — Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware puts together a list of warning flags for authors wooed by costly and frequently useless writing competitions.

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In a stalled effort to comment on the #AskELJames promotional event, the author Chuck Wendig gives us a chance to peer into the real gray, not Grey, world of our online discourse — and the murk of what seems to be a lot of unhappiness.

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While some indie authors seem to see self-publishing as a crusade to convert other writers to their approach, other voices warn that lack of preparation and the sheer difficulty of the work are often understated and overlooked.