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From #BookTok to Wattpad, tech trends rocking the publishing industry are also affecting libraries. Increasing digitization of literary content is transforming everything from what gets published to how it's delivered [...]

The latest generation of AI is a game changer. Not incremental change--something gentle, something gradual: this AI changes everything, fast. Scary fast. I believe that every function in trade book [...]

Being an independent author is a business all its own. When all of the steps toward a polished published work fall completely on the author, important steps can be forgotten [...]

THE HISTORY OF self-publishing, like that of publishing itself, is a history of access. Who has the opportunity, skills, and resources to write, design, lay out, print, and distribute a [...]

A survey commissioned by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, found that self-published authors' incomes increased substantially in 2022 compared to 2021, and that, on average, independent authors earn more [...]

Most writers dream of being published by a major traditional publisher and becoming a bestselling author. It can take a while to realize that the number of writers with that [...]

In May 2011, Joseph Epstein (former editor of The American Scholar) was quoted on Publishing Perspectives, which is an online business news outlet. Epstein had this to say: '81 percent [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 86 self-published titles below, with descriptions provided by their authors. Some of these writers are waiting to be discovered; [...]

Traditional attitudes toward self-published books are changing. While long decried as the worst-written dregs at the bottom of the publishing barrel, self-publishing has started to attract reputable titles to its [...]

Beth Revis, author of the New York Times bestselling YA 'Across the Universe' series (Penguin), joined a wave of established authors when she decided to self-publish her most recent book, [...]

New initiatives for libraries puts them into publishing roles. In Provincetown, Mass., the public library started its own digital imprint, The Provincetown Public Press, to publish original works and 'empower [...]

THE 89 TITLES SUBMITTED FOR OUR 19TH PW SELECT Booksellers, publishers, and agents are encouraged to take a look at the following listings of self-published books from authors either waiting [...]

Every literary genre has its subgenres, but there is perhaps no genre so packed with niches as horror fiction. You've got your supernatural horror, postapocalyptic horror, fantasy horror, sci-fi horror, [...]

Everyone has a book in them, it's said. While Christopher Hitchens completed that phrase with 'in most cases that's where it should stay,' it doesn't seem the public agrees. This [...]

Self-publishing saw another successful year in 2014, with authors like Deborah Bladon and Jen McLaughlin hitting the New York Times bestseller lists, fanfic authors like Sophie Jackson receiving six-figure advances, [...]

These days, Christian self-publishing has moved from the Rodney Dangerfield era to the Aretha Franklin age. Once self-publishers in the category couldn't get no respect, but now they are singing [...]

Lawrence Grobel realized everything had changed when his phone stopped ringing. As a professional writer, Grobel had been consistently prolific since the '70s. His long-form interviews with director John Huston, [...]

These days, Christian self-publishing has moved from the Rodney Dangerfield era to the Aretha Franklin age. Once they couldn't get no respect, but now self-publishers in the category are singing [...]

Booksellers have the industry connections to publish their books just about anywhere, and some do, like fiction writers Emma Straub at Bookin New York City (Other People We Married), Ellen [...]

With Self-publishing increasingly accessible and publishers always looking for a sure thing, the number of authors who start out by publishing their own books is on the upswing. Bowker reports [...]

Byline: phoebe reilly Jaid Black, the 'queen of steam,' isn't feeling well, so she's dispatched Christian, a muscular, handsome 40-something, to greet me at the front door of her West [...]

As 2017 begins, indie authors and publishers are having to navigate a fast-growing industry filled with new opportunities, but one that also presents challenges related to that expansion. To find [...]

Indie authors are finding that now is a good time to dive into e-books. As readers continue to embrace the format, e-book platforms expand their offerings, and indie authors get [...]

Authors no longer have to choose between traditional publishing and self-publishing. A third option has emerged and is gaining ground: hybrid publishing, which fuses aspects of traditional publishing with self-publishing, [...]

Byline: Marc Bousquet En route to a professorship of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, Clay Spinuzzi published scholarly monographs with the MIT Press (2003) and [...]

Former self-published writer Kerry Wilkinson pictured has laid down the gauntlet to traditional publishers, saying that they do not communicate with authors enough and that Amazon is 'the main innovator [...]

ALTHOUGH traditional publishing houses are drowning in declining book sales, staff layoffs, hiring freezes, and an increasingly gloomy economic outlook, self-publishing is booming. In 2008, for example, self-publishing company Author [...]

Natasha Preston's romance Broken Silence tops the list of bestselling titles on the Smashwords platform for the month of November. The book is the second title in her Silence series [...]

In an era of blogging, print is still the first choice for many designers who are embracing the DIY ethic by producing their own independent publications. Liz Farrelly speaks to [...]

hen cheril clarke finished writing her latest novel last fall, the young, unknown author didn't worry about whether anyone would publish it. Ms. Clarke, who works days as an analyst [...]

Since the beginning of her writing career, M.C.A. Hogarth has been an innovator, not only because of the many worlds her aliens, spacefarers, and lawkeepers cover but in the way [...]

T he Horn Book website was alight last month with a discussion of self-publishing books for children. It began when I posted my thoughts on the subject in response to [...]

'The tide is turning' on bookshops' attitudes towards stocking self-published titles, new developments suggest. The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) founder Orna Ross agreed there had been 'movement' as a [...]

Self-Publishing a Century Ago Self-publishing is hardly a new idea, as evidenced by an editorial we published 100 years ago. The piece addresses the question of whether 'the bookseller should [...]

In 1798, on West Bow Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eponymously named Thomas Nelson was founded as a publisher of inexpensive editions of classic books like The Pilgrim's Progress and [...]

New deals for Joanne Harris and Kate Mosse have been sealed just ahead of the London Book Fair. Meanwhile, editors are said to be showing a new scepticism about self-published [...]

WHO WILL GET RICH (ZUCKERBERG), WHAT WILL KEEP MOGULS UP AT NIGHT (DWINDLING BOX OFFICE) AND HOW LONG JAMES MURDOCH CAN SURVIVE (REALLY? HE DIDN'T READ HIS E-NAIL?) AS THR [...]

Q: There is a term called 'raw art,' which generally refers to visual art made by people who have no real formal art training--they just feel compelled to create. It's [...]

In a variation of the phrase coined by Tip O'Neill on politics, all self-published books are local, or at least the ones that work best in New England. 'I think [...]

The first SELF-e collection of self-published titles chosen by U and hosted by BiblioLab's BiblioBoard releases this month, in time for the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference. On the [...]

Publishing, unfortunately, can be considered a competitive sport. Far more writers than publishing houses are in the world. As an editor for Black Issues Book Review, two publishers and a [...]

FRESHLY PARKED IN A RESTAURANT booth, Michael Ajakwe Jr. flips his driving glasses up on his head. The Nigerian American has a face reminiscent of a rich African mask that [...]

Former dressmaker Pamela Parisi calls herself the 'Elegant Tightwad.' As principal of Phoenix Enterprises, an image and shopping consultant in Amityville, Parisi dresses in Armani outfits that she gets at [...]

I have been a literary agent since 1987 and have written 25 editions of the book currently titled Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents. During this [...]