Read an E-book Week is here.  Some info:
History – Read an E-Book Week was first registered with Chase’s Calendar of Events in 2004. Chase’s is a day by day directory of special days, weeks and months used by event planners or anyone looking for a reason to celebrate. By having the week officially recognized, e-book [...]

It’s always been my contention that for self-publishing really to enter the mainstream and be taken seriously as an avenue for all writers, it would have to gain popularity as a medium for literary fiction.  That would lend it instant respect and credibility.  After all, The Shack has sold two million copies and Still Alice [...]

Jason Epstein is, and has been, one of the preeminent powers in publishing for nearly half a century. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Epstein) Few, if any, know more about the business than he does.
This is an extraordinary article he has just written about what the future has in store: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23683
Digitization makes possible a world in which anyone can claim [...]

Since January 25, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is open to submissions until February 7. To register and enter you will need to submit:

* The full/complete version of your manuscript (the “Manuscript”), which must be between 50,000 and 150,000 words [...]

New feature at Self-Publishing Review: a Link Directory.    Users can add a directory listing for a book, service, website, or other.  The listing will be given a unique page that will show up in your profile. Example for my book: The American Book of the Dead.
To use the directory:
1. Go to My Account at the [...]

So the iPad is finally here and brings big implications for the future of publishing. Here’s a video of the iBooks app at work:

The iBooks app will use the ePub format, which is good news and bad news. The good news is that it’s not a proprietary format, like the Kindle – i.e. [...]

Via MediaBistro comes news that Wattpad is teaming up with Lulu to offer print on demand services for Wattpad stories:
Wattpad, the Toronto-based eBook-publishing social network, which recently completed a round of funding, today announced a partnership with Lulu, the self-publishing and printing company, to create a branded Wattpad store on Lulu.com. Click here to check [...]

Used to be you had to dig to find posts like this, or least find a caveat, “Self-publishing sucks, but here’s a writer who’s doing it.”  Basically, more traditionally-published writers are coming out of the woodwork and looking into this medium.
In the L.A. Times, there’s a nice piece by Steve Almond (on Amazon) who put [...]

As a reaction to the brouhaha over Author Solutions’ partnership with Harlequin, Author Solutions CEO, Kevin Weiss, put together this video to address the literary guilds that took issue with the partnership: the Romance Writers of America (RWA), Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA).

Two major developments this week in self-publishing. Lulu.com is going public and looking for a $50 million public offering – interestingly on the Canadian market.
Why Canada? The local equity market has been on bit of a boom, and in 2009, saw 28 new issues worth C$1.8 billion, compared with the C$682 million raised from [...]