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Experimenting with form and structure in ebooks is a recipe for confusion
[NB: This blog post was originally posted on the Momentum Blog] I’ve been reading ebooks for a long time. People complain nowadays about quality control in ebooks, but when I started reading them...
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Harry Potter and the Digital Rights Management
So JK Rowling finally made her ebooks available for sale last night. It’s about time. It’s been described as the ‘Beatles moment’ for ebooks. The Beatles moment they’re referring to is when the...
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Unwin Trust Fellowship Report Overview
Download the full report PDF here, or you can get it as an ebook in EPUB or Kindle format. I don’t think many publishers are sitting there saying ‘What are our digital experiments, how are we...
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This Book is Certified Edited
[This post originally appeared on The Momentum Blog] I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about editing this week. Tomorrow I’m speaking at the Residential Editorial Program, an intensive editing course...
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So We Dropped DRM – What Does That Actually Mean?
[This post was originally posted on The Momentum Blog.] As some of you might already know, we announced yesterday that we’re dropping DRM (digital rights management) from all of our books. The chatter...
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This presentation was made at the introductory session of the Australian Society of Author‘s How to Publish Your Ebook course. How to Publish Your Ebook Introduction View more presentations from jn08.
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Top 5 Future of the Book Clichés
I’ve been writing blog posts about the future of books and publishing for a while now. I’m by no means one of the first, and by no stretch of the imagination one of the best, so I’m painfully aware of...
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Would Your Protagonist Kill a Dog?
An author friend of mine was talking to another author friend of his about the large number of women who read his books. This surprised him. His books are for the most part military thrillers in which...
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Do You Own Your Ebooks?
An email from an acquaintance today in light of the Amazon library deletion scandal caused me to write a long rant about digital rights management (DRM) and ebooks and copyright so I thought I’d share...
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Who Wants to Read This Stuff? The Business of Storytelling in a Digital World
It’s often said that writers write for themselves. This might be true, but as a publisher it’s my task to be the reader’s advocate. The first question I try to ask when considering a new project is to...
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The Future of Book Editing: Resistance is Futile
This post is based on a speech made at the Society of Editors and was originally published in the Blue Pencil I’d like to start with a recent example of the necessity of editors in the world of...
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What has happened to all the powerful women in book publishing?
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