Posts Tagged ‘ publishing ’

In this video, Chris Pirillo says EVERYTHING. Everything that needs to be said about piracy, why people pirate, how industry and companies and artists are fuelling people's desire to pirate by not making it easy to get and share their content, how people can make piracy sustainable (hint, by giving back to the system we take...
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Publishing-industry thinker Sean Cranbury linked to this article in the Globe and Mail: The rise of the e-book lending library (and the death of e-book pirating). The voice of the article, along with some of the people quoted within it, struck me as... naïve. To say the least. But enough about that. As an author, here's...
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I've been thinking about my book-buying habits lately. Partly because I've been reading ebooks on my iPad and partly just because I'm fascinated by the evolving business of publishing. So I decided to be systematic. Here's a list of the books I've read in the last year, and either how I found out about them or...
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing author Shannon Okey on Twitter* as part of her blog tour to promote her new book, The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design. We had so much fun, and such a productive conversation, that I forgot to do the giveaway we'd planned. D'oh.
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Something occurred to me out of the blue today: during my last few months as editor of Interweave Crochet, as the company was beginning to focus more on the possibilities presented by online tools and social media, I wanted nothing to do with any of it in my work as editor. Crazy, hey? As you...
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It's a busy heatwavy week over here. As the dog alternates between sleeping and panting and I sit very slowly wishing I could do the same (everything is done very slowly during a heatwave, see), I marvel a bit about how much I'm getting done. First, here's a link to the interview I did with...
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On Wednesday, 12th February, CRAFT magazine announced their current issue will be the last in print but that they'll focus much energy on building their already robust website into something even bigger. I contacted Senior Editor Natalie Zee Drieu, and despite having a super busy week she answered some questions via email. KW: Can you...
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Image via Wikipedia There is a ton of talk about yesterday's announcement that CRAFT magazine will cease its print publication and will shift all production to craftzine.com. I'm hoping to post an interview with senior editor Natalie Zee Drieu in the next couple of days, but there are issues that transcend this...
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The publishing world is increasingly abuzz about its own struggling right now, and talk about the general need for publishers to adapt their business models (the music industry's failure to seize the digital-distribution opportunity until several years too late is frequently mentioned*) seems to be focusing on two things: e-publishing and free content. I'm...
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