There is whack of literary festivals in the world. I was wondering if there was a directory on line that listed them all. Google points to Wikipedia. That made me wonder how many festivals, book shops, and coffee shops out there would benefit if such a directory was able to provide matches with available authors [...]
In a long feature in Publisher’s Weekly, Richard Nash shared his progress launching his Cursor project (formerly The Round Table). There is a couple notable things included in Richard’s blueprint. 1) The contracts will be for three years and the writer retains the rights to their own intellectual property. This has become common in the [...]
Earlier this week I listened to the excellent BookExpocast on the Google Book Search settlement. Until then I hadn’t considered that the agreement could prevent the creative destruction needed to renew the industry. It is about books, old books. It is not about content and its future forms. As such the agreement is a 20th [...]
Corrected: Shortcovers announced today that they would digitize publishers books for free at their discretion –or digitize at cost with the publisher paying and return the files. A huge step and one sure to buy them goodwill in the community. Over the weekend I was curious to know how Shortcovers was doing with their product [...]