A novelist realizes that a book she wrote 20 years ago — now out of print — can be revived today as an e-book. Here’s the story of how she took that old print volume and turned it into an e-book, complete with new title, new …
As electronic media accounts for a larger and larger portion of the book business, consumers are benefiting from lower prices for books, and manufacturers are enjoying massive sales. But how is the e-book revolution affecting a…
As the market for electronic book readers has grown, Apple’s iPad has been pulling e-reader market share away from Amazon.com’s Kindle, according to a new report from ChangeWave Research. The Kindle’s market share has slipped t…
E-book sales continue to climb. But the popularity of digital titles is forcing publishers to ask some thorny questions about pricing, negotiations with writers and the future of the publishing industry.
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Veteran novelist Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay It Forward and 15 other books) describes the monetary underpinnings of the novelist’s business. Did you know authors generally get just two royalty checks a year? That is, if there are …