by Lee Purcell | Mar 29, 2014 | Sell
This interview by Anne Hill with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin explores the tenuous and elusive link between money and writing, as well as the birth of a new magazine, SCRATCH, that serves to demystify the methods for getting paid for your writing efforts. Some...
by Lee Purcell | Mar 22, 2014 | Discover, Market
The path to writing success—even the definition of writing success—has been permanently altered, as discussed in this article highlighting the writing scene and shifting opportunities in Charlottesville, VA, a city that has attracted a fair share of literary...
by Lee Purcell | Mar 19, 2014 | Discover
Armina Ligaya at the Financial Post reports about Kobo, Inc.’s successful request for a temporary stay in the implementation of retail ebook discount policies in Canada. Kobo challenge to e-book ruling delays Competition Bureau’s move to reduce prices ...
by Lee Purcell | Mar 14, 2014 | Create
In his blog on Huffington Post, author and publisher David Kudler offered some heretical advice for would-be indie authors, extracted from an interview done for Inkspokes. The first is that self-publishing doesn’t mean that you have do everything yourself...
by Lee Purcell | Mar 8, 2014 | Learn
The term immersive has become a vaunted catch phrase, an adjective that has been applied to a dizzying range of nouns. To cite just a few samples, you have immersive television, immersive multimedia, immersive encounters, immersive experiences, immersive environments,...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 10, 2014 | Discover
On the great timeline of human events and inventions, ePublishing is yet a sliver among epochs. The history of the printing press goes back hundreds of years and the span of human communication and evolution of writing and language development encompasses thousands of...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 3, 2014 | Discover
Big Six publisher Hachette has made its entire catalog of 5,000 ebooks available to US public and school libraries, a step that could foreshadow a broader move by other publishers to work more closely with libraries to harmonize the handling of print and ebook...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 27, 2013 | Interview, Meet
This is an abridged version of a full-length article that appears in the premiere issue of the ePublish Yourself! e-zine, available on ISSUU. Four books and several hundred thousand miles later, Sam Manicom has established himself in a uniquely adventure-filled realm:...
