Please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it grossly inappropriate for a judge presiding over a case to say that she’s pretty sure the plaintiff will win before the case has been heard? Last night, news came out that …

What are the factors that authors consider when deciding how to publish their next book? A well-written article by publishing beat newbie Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times entitled New Publisher Authors Trust: Themselves suggests that it’s money and …

As we’ve discussed over the past several months, pricing for ebooks has been in flux over the past year due to a number of factors but has seemed to stabilize since the end of 2012. In the past four months, …

The big news of the day is that the world’s largest bookseller (Amazon) has acquired the world’s largest book-focused social network (Goodreads). Because we live in the era of instant reaction through social media, Goodreads users have already posted hundreds …

The publishing industry is going through “atomization,” according to industry consultant and DBW partner Mike Shatzkin. He writes in his latest blog post at The Shatzkin Files: Soon — in the next 5 or 10 years — every university (perhaps …

Gamification is one of the hot new concepts in children’s enhanced ebooks. The general idea is simple: To get kids to eat their broccoli (i.e., read books), let’s put some cheese on it (make them fun — cheese on broccoli …

Disclaimer: This is just one guy’s opinion about publishing start-ups in general. I could be wrong, of course. In addition, I don’t mean for this to be taken as a negative outlook (or positive one) for any start-up in particular.  …

Related: What Authors Want — Understanding Authors Priorities in the Self-Publishing Era One thing I hear a lot these days is that “self-publishing” is a misnomer. The reason? There’s no way that one person can do everything necessary to properly and …

Last night, the long-anticipated, much-delayed Bookish.com finally launched. It took two years and three CEOs, but the big-publisher-backed venture (Hachette, Penguin, Simon & Schuster) is up and running. After playing around with the new, touted recommendation engine and reading some …

Self-publishing site Lulu has announced that it will no longer offer digital rights management (DRM) as an option for its authors for books created and sold on Lulu (for books created on Lulu and sold elsewhere, they will still be …

There’s nothing like face-to-face contact, talking with actual breathing, speaking, snorting, singing, handshaking humans. Before I go on and get to the point of this post (there is one, I assure you), I should first tell you that I spend …

Putting together our massive ebook predictions article for 2013 was fun but a lot of work. I got to speak with a dozen or so ebook and digital-publishing expert and engage in the always-fun activity of speculating about the future. …

The new children’s digital content business has given rise to a new kind of children’s author. In fact, we may not even want to continue calling them simply authors.

According to a report in the New York Times, a study of 400 apps designed for and marketed to children revealed that only 20% of them provide appropriate disclosures to parents about what kind of data they are collecting about …

Employees at the Hachette Book Group have published an inspiring video in which they tell people that life gets better for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids (LGBT) — or anyone — who are being bullied or feel out of …