It’s been an interesting week in publishing. I feel like I ought to say something about ebooks or discounted book prices. (For reference, three new ebook readers were announced this week, and big box stores have been in a low-price war over a few bestselling books.) But, really, there’s not much for me to say. [...]
John Scalzi made a post lately where he talked about the speed of publishing. Or, to be more accurate, the lack thereof. Someone asked him why new novelists always seem to be in their thirties, instead of twenties like musicians and actors, and he decided to give a nice long answer which is very illumating [...]
Sarah Weinman posted a link to an interesting article by an agent who discusses a publishing reporting tool called Bookscan. Publishers use Bookscan to tell them approximately how many copies of a book were sold. The problem is that it’s numbers aren’t accurate. According to the article publishers figure in a margin of error, that [...]