Two weeks ago, a number of prominent retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo pulled a number of titles after the pornographic British newspaper the Daily Mail exploded in outrage… Read more »

Authors who want to self-publish just got a new way to sell their books, in an interesting little turn of the screw this week. Since 2011, Penguin has run Book… Read more »

Yesterday, we reported that self-published books now make up 20% of the genre ebook market in the UK. That figure was first announced on Tuesday by Steve Bohme, the research… Read more »

The greater publishing world’s relationship with self-published ebooks can best be described as dismissive — there’s a common perception that it’s a niche for vanity projects and fan fiction. However,… Read more »

Self-published books are typically pretty terrible and books adapted from Twitter accounts have, historically, been entirely terrible. But last month the person (or people) behind  “@Seinfeld2000″ released their debut novel, The Apple Store and it is, astonishingly, both hilarious… Read more »

John Scalzi’s blog has always been a remarkable resource for honest thought on the life of a professional writer. One of the joys of reading it over the years has… Read more »

“I’m convinced that epublishing is another tech bubble, and that it will burst within the next 18 months.” Bold words, and not mine. Ewan Morrison made this pronouncement yesterday on… 2 / Read more »

Ire about ebook pricing has fallen out of the tubes and into the streets. And one no longer has to be a cartoonishly naive agent of the Department of Justice… 5 / Read more »

Pearson, the London-based parent company of Penguin Books has bought Author Solutions, one of the largest “grassroots” publishers, for $116 million. According to Vanessa Thorpe in The Guardian, “The idea is that… Read more »

What does it take to land a million dollar book deal lately? Well, so far in 2012 there’s been the case of the celebrity memoir (Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother), the… Read more »