Welcome to the guest blogging series, So, You Want to Work in Publishing! Every Thursday you can look forward to the personal stories of how someone else broke into publishing. (For previous posts in the series, check out this page.) The guest bloggers and I hope that you find our stories encouraging, informative, and helpfulContinue reading ““So, You Want to Work in Publishing?”–Nick Martorelli”
Tag Archives: e-books
Publish Local: The Bookstore Press Trend
As feisty independent bookstore owner Meg Ryan once illustrated in the film You’ve Got Mail, physical bookstores have long been trying a variety of methods to compete. While in the film Meg Ryan fought against the monopoly of chain bookstore Fox Books, modern booksellers are battling against Amazon and other e-book sales by hosting authorContinue reading “Publish Local: The Bookstore Press Trend”
An E-Reader Battle: Kindle Fire vs. Kindle
My boyfriend completely surprised me this year when we exchanged gifts and I unwrapped a Kindle Fire. Only last Christmas, his parents had shocked me by giving me a traditional Kindle so I was not expecting the newest product in the Kindle line. Though in the past few months I was aware of the releaseContinue reading “An E-Reader Battle: Kindle Fire vs. Kindle”
Readable Christmas Presents: The Best Books of 2011
For those of you stuck in that dangerous position of having more Christmas shopping to do, but no idea of what to get, the bookstore is a great one-stop shop to get something for everybody left on your list. I won’t mention which books I might have gotten for who (you can’t spoil the surpriseContinue reading “Readable Christmas Presents: The Best Books of 2011”
Dear Indie Bookstores: Stop Judging Books by their Covers
When you’re driving, sometimes you encounter some very important people–read, jerks–who break all the rules; they go fifty miles over the speed limit, weave around you in closely-packed traffic, and almost cause four car crashes before they speed out of sight. Some people get mad at these rude drivers and let out a stream ofContinue reading “Dear Indie Bookstores: Stop Judging Books by their Covers”
Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?
Like Chicken Little, a lot of people are running around shouting that the publishing world is going under. This allegedly inevitable transformation to digital is going to delete jobs, while journals and magazines that don’t keep up and reformat for iPad will go extinct. Literary journals are traditionally characterized as small and underfunded. Basically, they’reContinue reading “Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?”
The One Downfall to Being Published Electronically: You Can’t Sign a Kindle
Personally, I started out being rather iffy/stand-offish/old-fashioned about the whole e-book revolution. Give me a physically bound book or give me death, I cried over-dramatically. I was particularly fond of Meg Cabot’s continued complaint that ebooks are not bathtub friendly (not that paper books are really very compatible with getting wet either, but at leastContinue reading “The One Downfall to Being Published Electronically: You Can’t Sign a Kindle”
Hannah Karena Jones 