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Bowker Launches SelfPublishedAuthor.com
Bowker this week launched a new web resource aimed at assisting self-published authors, selfpublishedauthor.com.
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Authors Sue Self-Publishing Service Author Solutions
Three authors have filed suit against leading self-publishing service provider Author Solutions, and its parent company Penguin. The complaint alleges that Author Solutions is "not an independent publisher, but a print-on-demand vanity press.” The suit seeks over $5 million in damages.
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Patti Davis to Self-Publish New Lesbian-themed Novel
Patti Davis, author, actress and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, self-published her new novel, Till Human Voices Wake Us, in March via Amazon’s KDP service and today she's releasing a paperback edition via Amazon’s CreateSpace service.
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Courier Corp. Buys FastPencil
Book manufacturer Courier Corp. has acquired FastPencil, the self-publishing platform that in mid April signed an agreement to support Barnes & Noble’s Nook Press, the revamped version of PubIt!.
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PW Select April 2013: All Our Coverage
The latest PW Select supplement—Publishers Weekly's quarterly guide to what's new in the self-publishing industry.
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PW Select April 2013: The Reviews
This month's installment of PW Select self-published print and e-books.
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PW Talks with John Englander
John Englander is an oceanographer and world ocean explorer with training in geology and economics.
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PW Select April 2013: New Titles from Self-Publishers
Booksellers, publishers, and agents are encouraged to take a look through the following listings of self-published books from authors either waiting to be discovered or with a track record and a following who are doing it on their own.
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Authors Go Native
Lawrence Grobel realized everything had changed when his phone stopped ringing.
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PW Select April 2013: uPublishU Targets Authors and Entrepreneurs
Authors attending this year’s uPublishU, the self-publishing section of the BookExpo America tradeshow, should not expect to hear much about how to write a book.
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Q & A with Brent Hartinger
Having just self-published The Elephant of Surprise, the fourth book in his Russel Middlebrook series, Brent Hartinger is at the forefront of trends in self-publishing and gayYA fiction.
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London Book Fair 2013: Self-Publishing Surges in Digital Zone
From its beginnings in 2009 as a sleepy corridor of Earls Court, the London Book Fair’s Digital Zone is quickly becoming the pounding heartbeat of the fair, driven largely by the rise of self-publishing.
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Q & A with Beth Reekles
The 17-year-old's self-published novel, The Kissing Booth, garnered millions of reads online – and landed the author a contract with Random House.
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Random House Acquires Novel by Teen Wattpad Star
Delacorte Press will publish e-book and print editions of The Kissing Booth, a debut book by Beth Reekles, a 17-year-old from Wales. The novel first appeared to high acclaim on Wattpad.
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Christian Self-Publishers Finally Get Some Respect
These days, Christian self-publishing has moved from the Rodney Dangerfield era to the Aretha Franklin age.
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PW Select February 2013: All Our Coverage
The latest PW Select supplement, including all the latest self-publishing news, listings of 142 titles, and reviews of 35 books.
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PW Select February 2013: Indie Rock’s Lessons for Publishing
When Todd Colberg set out to publish his first book, a collection of true stories from his days touring with Chapel Hill, N.C.–based garage-punk band the Spinns, he didn’t even consider shopping it around to agents or publishers.
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PW Select February 2013: Guy’s Way
For most authors and agents, a book deal in the mid-six-figure range would be an unqualified win.
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PW Select February 2013: Making History: A Talk with Elton B. Klibanoff
Upon leaving full-time legal work, Elton B. Klibanoff returned to his passion, history, and wrote the book he had long envisioned—For the Survival of Liberty: Great Presidential Decisions, which he self-published through Dog Ear Publishing in November of last year.
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