My goodness! Things are hopping these days, in the world of digital publishing/reading! Rumors were flying that the Department of Justice lawsuit against the Big 5 publishers (minus Random House) and Apple was going to break any minute now, and it did, sort of, except if was Apple and the Big 2 because three of the publishers settled with the DoJ.


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Well, it looks like there is something new in the ebook universe. According to Publishers' Weekly, publisher Hyperion is launching a service calling Kernl, which Hyperion is called an “e-imprint.” To me it sounds more like a serialized way to present information- short text pieces combined with video and some interactive components- in the hopes ( Read more... )

Some time ago HarperCollins' UK division created a combination writing workshop/online slush pile called Authonomy. I assume the name was an attempt to marry the concepts of authors and autonomy. Anyway, HC has just announced the first three publishing contracts for folks who had posted on Authonomy. One author had self-published his serial ( Read more... )

And it's not even close to April 1st!

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It sounds like bad news, but it's not. Pyr is the science fiction imprint of Prometheus Books and GalleyCat reported that Pyr is having a go with mass market. I find it encouraging that a publisher is expanding its formats in this economy. It goes against the panic that seems to have set in in some areas. And maybe once they get comfy with the ( Read more... )

Yesterday GalleyCat had a post on the fact that not only has Tor launched a new blog-centric site (which I blogged about yesterday, too), but the folks at Bantam/Spectra have a similar new site called Suvudu that offers coverage of comics publishing as well as Bantam/Spectra's spec fic novels. A comment, also posted yesterday, posted mentions ( Read more... )

Tor just launched Tor.com, their new blog-centric home page. It's not a replacement for their regular “learn about and buy our books here” site, but rather a platform for their editors, authors, and guest bloggers to opine on the world of spec fic publishing. One thing the new site does have, at least until this Sunday, July 27, is a link to ( Read more... )

An article on CNN titled "Are we spell-bound by e-books?" puts forth the notion of a "magic scroll"-an e-book reader with all the books you could ever want to read in one place. The article recaps the history of past devices (Sony, iLiad, etc.) and decides the Kindle is the closest yet to the magic scroll-close but no cigar ( Read more... )

One of the new forums on the PPW website had a notice that someone has started a small press that specializes in "Christian fantasy and science fiction." Now there's a niche market for you! There are people who would consider that genre an oxymoron. On the other side of the fences are the folks who would call it redundant. To each his own, I ( Read more... )