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Here’s what they don’t tell you when you start out as a writer: 1. You need to learn business. 2. You need to learn copyright because that’s what you sell. 3. You need to learn how to hire people …
When I was a kid, I used to play with the girl who lived across the street. But I never got to choose the game. When we were at her house, she would say “It’s my house, so I get to pick.” When we were at my house, she’d say, “I’m the guest, so I get to pick.” I would’ve been fine with either of these rules, but I was not fine with her choosing whichever was to her advantage at that moment. Visiting BookExpo America (BEA) last week, it occurred to me that, on the question of whether an ebook is “sold” or “licensed,” many publishers are dead ringers for that little girl across the street.
Good intro for cont-ed.
Self-publishing is expanding beyond first-time writers who can’t get deals, as big names like the playwright and author David Mamet are choosing this route, another sign that digital disruption is reshaping the publishing market.
What Turow doesn't appear to grasp is that technology, particularly communication technology exacts sweeping cultural change that cannot be reversed (short of war or global apocalypse). Most modern humans aren't going to trade in their flatscreens and XBoxes for a "good old-fashioned story told by the fire." “Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. One significant change generates total change.” (Postman, Technopoly, 18)
Straightforward about what publishers do and don't do.
Leanpub, Net Minds, and the other players in this corner of the publishing world envision a book as a technological enterprise, and hustlers are riding in …
My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer. You won't believe how little I got paid
John Scalzi, author, blogger, lame-duck (but by no means lame) President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, defender of ...
Why MFAs are idiots, and some publishing contracts are unconscionable.
Explains royalties! With percentages!
Explains money flows in fiction publishing.
Good, bad, and ugly clauses in intellectual-property agreements.
An article from PW Newsline sparked all sorts of thoughts in our little brain. Maybe it’s because we do love to discuss contractual stuff (no really, we do; it’s like a fetish without encountering actual leather). Or maybe it’s because we cannot read anything without putting our own unique spin on the subject. Please stop […]
OUP demands work-for-hire status on essays written for a particular book series.