publishing

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 [...]

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 [...]

What Do Authors Want?

by Sabrina Future

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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 [...]

More Resources for Digital Publishing

by Sabrina Information

I’ve extended my blog to include a large, hopefully helpful, list of resources that cover all aspects of digital publishing: agents, analytics, apps, associations, blogging, coding, contests/awards, design, distribution, ebooks, editing, entrepreneurial, funding, internships, jobs, legal, magazines, marketing, metadata, news, reading, reviews, self-publishing, startups, trends, video, webinars, and writing. (If I’ve missed anything, please let me [...]

Treasures of The Morgan Library & Museum

by Sabrina Publishing

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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).

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 [...]

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 [...]

How Readers Discover New Books

by Sabrina Marketing

A while back I attended an interesting webcast hosted by Digital Book World, titled “How Social Networks and New Media Are Changing the Ways Readers Discover New Books.” One thing I’ve learned from past webinars is that social media doesn’t really affect book sales. And according to the webcast, publishers only impact 7% of overall [...]

The Evolution of eBooks

by Sabrina EBooks

What will ebooks look like in the future? Every new medium has growing pains. At first, the structure tends to mimic whatever is familiar, but over time it expands in to new territory.

Blogs Worth Reading

by Sabrina Editing

Below is a list of blogs that may come in handy. They cover grammar, writing, ebooks, and publishing. I’ve also included a few of my friends’ blogs. Some of them are informative, some are quirky, and all are worth looking at.

Data Mining in the Publishing World

by Sabrina Future

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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, by Yodane59 Big data is the latest buzz word in publishing, so it seems like an interesting issue to explore. Lots of new publishing related companies using data are springing up, such as Booklr, Hiptype, and Write or Read.

More on Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata

Accurate Metadata for book and ebook sales

If you have some free time, you should watch the Making Your MetaData Better video. Around the 30 minute mark, Bob Oeste, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Johns Hopkins University Press starts his presentation, and he makes the whole concept of metadata entertaining. So, if you want to learn more about metadata, I highly recommend watching this video.

Penguin Becomes First Big-6 Publisher to Disrupt the Book Business Model

by Sabrina Future

Pearson, the parent company of Penguin Group, acquired Author Solutions, a self-publishing platform, for $116 million. This makes Penguin the first of the big-6 publishing companies to provide full services, including editorial, marketing, and design, to self-published authors. Penguin will also be the first big publisher to start learning about customer acquisition and data analytics.

BookStats, What Happened in the Publishing Industry in 2011

by Sabrina Future

BookStats, the annual survey conducted by BISG that captures the size and scope of the publishing industry, was released today. See the press release below; there are some interesting factoids, particularly for anyone working with ebooks.

Self-publishing ebooks: Why maximizing distribution matters

by Sabrina Distribution

New technologies and startups have made it easier than ever to self-publish ebooks. But they don’t make it any easier to make a living writing. The most important thing you can do as a self-published author, however, is to make sure your ebook is available through as many retail channels as possible. (FYI, ebook sales [...]

Pinning on Pinterest

by Sabrina Marketing

Pinterest can be a powerful social media marketing tool. Since this is a blog about publishing, and social media is both a form of publishing and a huge part of marketing in the publishing industry, it seems relevant to share what I learned from a webinar on Pinterest, presented by Entrepreneuress Academy.

Marquee, a new way of publishing

by Sabrina Publishing

I just heard through TechCrunch about Marquee, a tool that lets you drag and drop text, images, audio, and video from Dropbox or your desktop. No account is required, but you can connect to your social networks to share your work. Basically, you use Marquee to make really pretty pages. Check it out!

NYU Publishing Students on Next Generation Publishing

by Sabrina Future

The last day of BEA was incredibly busy. Between speed dating and interviews, I only had time to hear the last half of my fellow NYU publishing graduates panel. The topic was What The Next Generation Thinks: New Voices In Publishing Speak Out, and I’ve listed some of the more memorable quotes.

PubSlush Press: Platform, Publisher, and Partner

by Sabrina Publishing

First off, PubSlush is a great name. But what do they do? Well, a lot of things.

NYU Media Talk: Social Content, What’s Working? What’s Not? What’s Next?

by Sabrina Future

Last night’s NYU Media Talk was informative, and one of the most entertaining talks I’ve attended. The topic was on social content, and how social media affects publishing. It was moderated by New York Times Media Equation columnist David Carr, chief strategist and editor-at-large for WaPoLabs Rob Malda, editorial director for Flipboard Josh Quittner, and editor-in-chief [...]

The Reader Revolution: Recap of How the “Publishing Game” is Changing

by Sabrina Future

BEA offered an education series, where many experts participated in panels about a wide range of topics relating to publishing. One of the most interesting panels was called “The Reader Revolution: Changing the Game for Readers, Writers, and Everyone in Between.”

Three Innovative Companies: WordPivot, Link.me, and Bibliocrunch

by Sabrina Future

A big part of BEA is walking around the showroom and meeting new exhibitors. This year, I got to meet the founders of two new companies, WordPivot and Link.me, as well as reconnect with a friend and NYU alum, Miral Sittar, who is the founder and CEO of Bibliocrunch.

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