Life as a professional writer is financially depressing, and I’ve often been advised to self-publish. Here’s why I won’t do it A few days ago, I wrote a piece on my blog exploding the myth of the rich ...

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Not so long ago, the first hurdle for an aspiring book author was to get past the gatekeepers. First you would have to spend weeks or months writing a book proposal and sample chapters. Then you might ...

With the time to submit comments to the Department of Justice about its settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster over its e-book pricing fixing case almost up, the Authors Guild ...

Interested in self-publishing an e-book? CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy offers some basic tips for e-book publishing and lays out your best options for publishing quickly and easily. Executive ...

One bookstore owner I know has been doing a great job; the store held its own despite the overall slide in print. The bookseller told me that this year, through October, sales at the store were down 5 ...

A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 byself-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics releasedthis morning by R.R. Bowker. The number of "nontraditional" titles ...