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Publishing industry

Publishing trends, analysis, news, and updates

Digital and Social Book Discovery

by Sabrina EBooks

Digital Book World hosted an interesting webcast today, called Finding Books Without Borders: Discoverability in a Digital and Social World. Two fairly new companies, Jellybooks and Readmill, talked about how they tackle the issue in their own ways.

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Write or Read is Launching!

by Sabrina Publishing

After nearly a year in the making, an alpha launch, and an initial user base of over 2,000 people, I’m happy to announce that my co-founder and I will be launching the public beta of Write or Read this month. If you aren’t already familiar with Write or Read, it is a subscription site for self-published e-books. [...]

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Immersive Storytelling

by Sabrina Future

Transmedia, apps, and other forms of immersive storytelling are getting more and more popular. For large worlds like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, to name a few well-known examples, immersive storytelling can be a great extension or better way to connect with readers.

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Power Outages and Print Books

by Sabrina Musings

I’ve experienced a number of power outages the last couple years (interestingly, more so in the last two years than the rest of my life so far), and it got me thinking about e-books.

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Bundling E-Books

by Sabrina EBooks

The concept of bundling books is not new. Many trilogies or series are bundled and sold as packages. But, bundling e-books is fairly new. Humble Bundle was the first one to do it, as far as I know, and they started with a package that offered books from Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, and more. The interesting [...]

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Building the Next Generation of YA Stars (Webinar)

by Sabrina EBooks

Last month I attended a webinar hosted by Publisher’s Weekly, called “Building the Next Generation of YA Stars.” The speakers included the editorial director of Disney-Hyperion and the executive editor of Harlequin Teen. Together they covered new marketing strategies for YA novels, trends, and what they look for when acquiring books. Marketing According to them, YA books have more [...]

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Publishing as a Function

by Sabrina Future

Mike Shatzkin wrote an interesting post about how, ten years from now, people in publishing might not be working in publishing-specific companies. Instead, other companies may branch out to include publishing books as one of their strategies. And so publishing may become like an accounting job, where every company has publishing employees and theoretically you could [...]

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What Do Authors Want?

by Sabrina Future

Digital Book World hosted a webinar a while back, called “What Authors Want.” The webinar was meant to promote DBW’s survey of 5,000 authors. The survey was submitted to the Writer’s Digest community (whose writers tend to be female and over 35, and write fiction), as well as SFWA (mostly male fiction writers), Romance Writers of America (mostly female writers), and [...]

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E-Books in the Global Marketplace

by Sabrina EBooks

Last November, I attended an interesting webinar co-hosted by BISG and DBW, called E-Books in the Global Marketplace. Though this post is a little late, the information is still relevant, and I think it’s worth sharing some of the findings.

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KYS Realm and Transmedia, the Future of Storytelling

by Sabrina Future

Technology lends itself to new creative forms of storytelling. One example is transmedia, a new technique of storytelling that involves enhancing the experience through multiple platforms, such as books, videos, and even live events. The Elements Club is one such transmedia series, where every few months a new segment telling the tales of a quirky, yet [...]

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Treasures of The Morgan Library & Museum

by Sabrina Publishing

Last weekend, I finally visited The Morgan Library & Museum, which houses J.P. Morgan’s collection of art and books. The special exhibit currently on display celebrates the 100th anniversary of Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust. Interestingly, Proust self-published his book in 1913 (with the help of a backer).

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What’s Going on With Readers Today?

by Sabrina EBooks

What’s Going On With Readers Today from Goodreads A while back, Goodreads asked publishers what questions they would like to ask readers. The results of the Goodreads survey from December 2012 are now up, and there are some interesting finds. I do wonder, however, how accurate these findings are. Yes, Goodreads has a huge base [...]

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WordPivot: Boosting Vocabulary One eBook at a Time

by Sabrina EBooks

Digital publishing has leveled the playing field for startups. One new company, that I’m excited to blog about, is called WordPivot. Launched a few weeks ago, WordPivot is, according to the press release, “a research‐based reading app that creates personalized quizzes inside the pages of your favorite eBooks to help you turbocharge your vocabulary.”

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Thoughts on Tools of Change

by Sabrina EBooks

I had the pleasure of attending the first day of the O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference this year. It’s an annual conference that mainly covers digital publishing, and it’s nearly as good as Books in Browsers. There were a lot of great talks and some interesting startups and companies on exhibit, but I’m going to focus this [...]

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How Amazon Works

by Sabrina Publishing

Today is a day of posting links to really interesting articles. First up, Eugene Wei wrote an interesting analytical blog post about why Amazon’s business model is one that aims to have low margins: Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins And secondly, The Guardian posted a piece on how Amazon struggles with its customer book [...]

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Trends and Startups in Book Publishing

by Sabrina EBooks

The last couple years have been a time of change for the publishing industry, and I expect this year to be the same. Every few weeks I’ve been hearing about new startups and ventures that expect to–and probably will–disrupt publishing. I think it’s worth sharing some of them here, and what their success could mean [...]

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Living in a Sci-Fi World

by Sabrina Future

CES (Consumer Electronics Association) was last week, and companies demoed a lot of really cool gadgets. One I think is worth sharing is a product by Tactus, a company in California. Tactus developed a screen that can turn into a flat tablet into something with actual bumpy buttons, to make it easier to type. When [...]

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Dealing With Negative Reviews

by Sabrina Marketing

Last summer, I dealt with my very first negative review. It was for the first book of my publishing company, a collection of flash fiction, and I had given the book away for free on LibraryThing in hopes of getting more reviews. Now, even though this was not my book in the sense that I [...]

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Why Traditionally Published Authors Are Going Indie

by Sabrina Publishing

Read my first Huffington Post article, about traditionally published authors who have been publishing their own books. I’m thankful to have been able to interview such a talented and interesting group of people! Click here to read it. (Also posted on IndieReader and The Passive Voice).

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The Coming of Age of E-Textbooks?

by Sabrina EBooks

I’m not as familiar with what’s going on with e-textbooks, but there seems to have been a lot of exciting developments recently. One thing I often hear about e-textbooks is that, despite the expectation that young people, particularly college students, would be the first to eagerly adopt all things digital, most students don’t like e-textbooks [...]

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Smashwords: An upgrade to help indie authors sell better ebooks

by Sabrina EBook Conversion

On the last day of 2012, Smashwords made an exciting announcement: authors can now directly upload epubs to the site. This might not sound like a big deal, but it kind of is. According to the Smashwords blog, as of December 31, 2012, Smashwords became “the world’s largest distributor of ebooks from self-published authors and [...]

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The 13th Cycle has been published!

by Sabrina EBooks

My novella, The 13th Cycle is now available on my website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. Thank you to everyone who helped me write this book! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Find out more below: “The 13th Cycle” by Sabrina Ricci on Ganxy

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