What's Happening in the Industry...
A Collection of Book Publishing News Links
I included the articles below because as long as I've known,
reading has not been a popular sport, which troubled me reading about this spike in the
reading population. The only way to account for the sudden increase in readers
was by correlating the spike in publishing to the spike in readers as one in
the same. On average I might read 50 - 75 books a year, (obviously, as I'm now learning, this being prior to building my company, and the substantive writing that comes along with it); yet my point is, this is a figure I would assigned to the 'average' avid 'book' reader, and thus why I focused on the links and articles below.
* NEW links posted *
New Topics, Threads and Conversations worth adding to the collection of Book Sense News
New Topics, Threads and Conversations worth adding to the collection of Book Sense News
- Top Ten Digital Publishing Stories of 2012, from the Digital Book World (DBW)
- 'F-bom,' 'sexting,' 'man cave' added to Merriam-Webster dictionary (read article)
- Should Editors Get Credited in Books? (the answer here)
- Book Discovery Landscape Becomes More Complicated as Reader Behavior Fractures
- When Words Were Worth Fighting Over (read article)
- You Don't Own Your Kindle Books, Amazons Reminds Customers
- Booksellers Resisting Amazon's Disruption
- The Truth About Publishing Statistics
- Lessons for Book Publishing From the Music Industry's Digital Street Fight
- Simon & Schuster to Launch Self-Publishing Service Powered by Author Solutions...
- Amazon is Censoring Self-Publisher's Reviews says...Joni Rodgers
- New York Times Critic Selects Self-Published Book as One of the Best of 2012
- Urban Readers Prefer Ebooks, Rural Readers Prefer Print, new study says...
- Editorial Spoofing in the Age of Electronic Peer Review
Thoughts on How Education Really Affects Reading:
- National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study
- The Literacy Company Education Study
- Use Feedburner Statistics to Interpret Reader Habits
- TYWKIWDBI (Tai-Wiki-Widbee) Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently - Sad statistics re the public's book-reading habits
- Not Enough Readers Blog
- Educators are getting iPads and ereaders into students’ hands—but it's not easy
- Finding your Book Interrupted ... By the Tablet you Read It On
- Book Talk
- Goodreads
- Editorial Submissions -
- Indiebound
- Library Thing
- SheWrites
- Writers Digest
Reviewers:
- Step-by-Step Self-Publishing Reviewing List published by Christy Pinheiro
- The Midwest Book Reviews
- The Truth About Books
Book News & Associations:
- Bookselling this Week published by American Booksellers Association (ABA)
- Independent Book Publishers Association
- New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association
- PW Daily (e-newsletter)
- Digital Book World Newsletter link
Book Blogging Exchanges & Resources:
- Cathy Stucker – get on the blogger link-up list.
Book Arts &
Entertainment on Flavorwire:
- A Book About Bookshelves To Put On Your Very Own Bookshelf
- 25 Awesome MinimalistBook Covers
- 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World – Now I didn't vote on this, but must admit I would give 'almost' anything to bask night and day in such a world.
- Seeking a definition of outsider art...
- Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Writers
Conversations & Articles about Books:
- Are eBooks a no-show in India? published by Amrutha Penumudi
- Soul Pancake
- Popcorn Reads for people who love to read for entertainment
- Thinking Through a Strategy for Digital Rights Management
- Ebooks Vs. Paper Books: The Pros and Cons
- Publishers Starting to Reject e-Book DRM
- Google Ends eBook Agreement with Indies
- 25 Most Innovative Digital Publishers
- Rise of e-Reading | Pew Internet Libraries
- Foreign E-Book Sales Increase 333% For U.S. Publishers in 2011
