It Just Got Even More Expensive To Make Your Book “Visible”
image – iStockphoto / Matt_Gibson BOSTON, Massachusetts — Bowker, the US agency for ISBNs, has raised the cost of a pack of 10 of these book “identifier” codes, from $250 to $295. And thus, it just...
View ArticleYou Tell Me: Why IS Romance Reviled?
iStockphoto / GlobalStock So What Is It? Chopped Liver? Romance novels continue to be the most disdained of all genres. Often not just disdained or dismissed, but reviled with an unbridled hatred that...
View ArticleTelling ‘Tails’ In Gothenburg: Who Has Time For Publishing’s Long One?
iStockphoto / Zwilling330 ‘Sales Are Down For Most Authors’ Sales are down for most authors. You don’t see blog posts about it or tweets, but it’s a reality. And the reason is simple: there’s more...
View ArticleAt Frankfurt Book Fair: Is The ISBN Still Worth Its Barcode?
iStockphoto / tobi ISBN Fail: We Cannot Count Thousands Of Books FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany — As I’m reporting here at the 66th Frankfurt Book Fair today in The Bookseller’s Show Daily, the United...
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