State of the publishing nation, pt 3 There’s a lot of controversy over ebooks – particularly among publishers and published authors who a) already have a book deal and b) depend on royalties. The controversy mostly stems from the people who are pricing their books for the very low price of $0.99 or lower. Some people have made a lot of money doing this (see John Locke who’s sold over a million copies of his ebooks), but they have to sell a hell of a lot of books. And as with hardbacks and paperbacks, not everyone is going to sell...

What the traditional publishers don’t seem to have noticed – the rules of publishing and getting published are changing and becoming more fluid all the time. This follows on from my post last week about the state of publishing – well, I wrote it at the same time, it was just too much! The internet changed all the rules I think this is the critical bit that the traditional publishers have missed. They may be getting it now, but their thinking about how electronic vs paper works is still on the skew-whiff side of things. I mean, come on, how...

Here’s the text of my guest post on Just One More Paragraph – thanks Theresa for a great time and fantastic questions in my interview! That title has probably put you off already – a lot of people read ‘indie’ and substitute ‘vanity’ or ‘crap’ or worse. And probably with good reason in some cases, as a lot of independently published books don’t stack up against offerings from traditional publishers. Notice I said ‘a lot’, not ‘all’. More on that later. What does it really mean, indie vs traditional publisher? I read a lot of writer blogs, publishing pages and...