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Amazon Makes It More Difficult for Small Publishers
A recent policy change by Amazon.com looks like it may make the already difficult job of publishing books even more difficult, especially for small and self-publishers. The change already has small...
View ArticleEugene Woodbury on his novel The Path of Dreams
Eugene Woodbuy has revised his unique self-described home literature meets modern romance novel The Path of Dreams and is offering it on his Web site in three formats: a free online version, a free PDF...
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Separate but Equal?
When I discover a new book-related service or resource, I always explore them with a great deal of hope — hope that this discovery will provide an answer the difficult problems I see in both the LDS...
View ArticleWhat LDS Authors Need to Know
On one of the Mormon email lists I follow, a list member made a formal announcement recently that he had submitted his manuscript to Deseret Book for their consideration. The announcement included...
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News: Most New Titles Now POD
Publisher’s Weekly reported yesterday that most new titles produced each year are now produced using print-on-demand or short-run methods, according to industry service provider R. R. Bowker. During...
View ArticleThose LDS Ladies of Indie Publishing
. Zoe Murdock owns, with her husband, H.O.T. Press, which for years published tech manuals. When she decided to write fiction–the semi-autobiographical novel Torn by God: A Family’s Struggle with...
View ArticlePublishing Industry Notes of Interest
The August issue of Book Business Magazine came this week. It included quite a few interesting tidbits that are of interest. One article looked at the latest annual (2009) Book Industry Trends report,...
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How Vulnerable is the LDS Market?
What will the LDS market look like 20 years from now? Will there even be an LDS market? Will there still be LDS books, music, film and other cultural goods? If they exist, will they simply be sold as...
View ArticleIs Deseret Book the only LDS publisher worth publishing with?
Last week in a guest post on Dawning of a Brighter Day, Jana Riess suggested that Mormon novelists have a more difficult time getting published than those in the Christian market because Deseret Book...
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