Today’s links of interest:
- New E-Book Publisher Launches
Ravenous Romance is open for business, and, interestingly, has a high-profile list of authors to help launch. - RDR Drops Rowling Appeal; Has New Book
Ah, there’s the end of the story. - The 26th Story: White Tiger in Print or Digital: Why Do I Have to Choose?
Or, why should a customer have to purchase the same book twice to achieve desired convenience. So nice to see a major publisher asking this question. - The 26th Story: How to Acquire A Book Publishing Company
If we’re following along on our publishing bingo card, we’ve just scored a 6. - The Death of the Middle: The Book Bench: Online Only
Bob Miller blogs at The New Yorker about his view of where the problems in publishing lie. - eReader format licensed to Lexcycle, eReader coming to new platforms, and more!
We’re approving of these kind of deals — the more ways to get content to readers, the better. - Amazon.com Application for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available on Apple App Store
Or, if you will, there are a bunch of humans behind-the-scenes making this work (which, is an interesting twist on a classic shopping concept). - Harper Freezes Pay; Random House, Simon & Schuster Cut Jobs
Now HarperCollins joins the fun. - ‘Several Cities’ Could Have No Daily Paper As Soon As 2010, Credit Rater Says
Now comes the time to define what is meant by "daily paper" and how newspapers fit into our concept of "news". Seriously. Is something that lands on our doorstep with front page news that’s over 12 hours old really the best use of journalistic talent? - Penguin Freezes Raises for Those Above ,000
Rough. Especially for those trying to survive on NY prices. - How blogs give non-fiction books happy endings
Okay, not necessarily *happy*, but extending the conversation beyond the book is great for sales and building fan bases.
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Laural Bidwell // Dec 8, 2008 at 11:06 am
Hello! I absolutely love your blug…but was just wondering…do you have a blog on what’s right about publishing today? It’s the holidays, it’s been a rough year … lol…
Laural Bidwell // Dec 8, 2008 at 11:06 am
okay…I meant blog. What a funny typo!
Kassia Krozser // Dec 8, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Today’s Daily Square will be cheerier. I promise. Okay, mostly cheerier. It’s really been a rough one.
Ted // Jan 12, 2009 at 11:56 am
RE: Daily papers for some cities going out of business. Some should do so. The Providence Journal is a Republican rag in a state – Rhode Island – that is the bluest of the blue—Democrat. It has a veto-proof Democrat General Assembly, in both houses. In fact, as of the election, it has fewer Republicans in either house than the few it had before, about a total of 12—8 in the Senate and 4 in the house. It’s laughable. Republicans in Rhode Island are an endangered party, and they deserve to be. The Providence Journal has never advocated for the interests and needs of the people of the state, who are overwhelmingly blue collar. Now it is reaping the grisly garbage of its policies. It is increasingly becoming smaller – the Monday paper is hardly 36 pages, often – And for this past Sunday’s edition, my immediate thought was: Why bother to publish at all? In fact, I wrote a letter to the management of the Boston Globe, a few months ago, pointing out the continuing miserable reporting and journalism of the paper and its decline in readership, and advised it that, if it published a section of the Boston Globe about RI—-it already has a regional section and could easily add RI to it— I would subscribe to the Boston Globe. The Providence Journal is a mean, miserable paper that advocates only for the monied elite of the state, and should hit the gutter! I’ll cheer and tie one on when it goes! For other city dailies: I think there will always be a desire of people for a real, physical newspaper., even though people are increasing getting news from the Net—as I do. The country, I think, in not too many years, will have a limited number of large city dailies, which will increase their areas: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Miami Sun (?). This will suffice with USA Today becoming the paper of hoi polloi. I would advise those interested in print journalism also to consider reading Canada’s Globe and Mail, where issues are discussed intelligently and at length.