Recently, Harlequin announced a number of related initiatives (a self-publishing imprint, editorial and marketing services, and an e-pub branch), and the criticism they received for it was at some points withering . Accusations ranged from cashing in on their slush pile to exploiting naïve authors to flooding the market with titles to diluting their brand value. It reminds [...]

kent-anderson wrote a new blog post: Why Do Fiction Publishers Get So Uptight About Self-Publishing?

Recently, Harlequin announced a number of related initiatives (a self-publishing imprint, editorial and marketing services, and an e-pub branch), and the criticism they received for it was at some points withering. Accusations ranged from cashing in on their slush pile to exploiting [...]

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Kent Anderson wrote a new blog post: Self-Publishing and Scholarship Don’t Mix Well

On the heels of his well-read and well-commented post, A Publishing Person Self-Publishes (seriously, read the entire discussion), Andrew Kent writes about the important issue that self-published non-fiction must be held to a much higher standard than fiction.
The readers and writers on this blog tend [...]

  2 years, 7 months ago · View

On the heels of his well-read and well-commented post, A Publishing Person Self-Publishes (seriously, read the entire discussion), Andrew Kent writes about the important issue that self-published non-fiction must be held to a much higher standard than fiction. The readers and writers on this blog tend to produce works in fiction genres like mystery, romance, and general [...]

Kent Anderson works in scholarly publishing, runs the blog The Scholarly Kitchen , and writes the Johnny Denovo Mysteries under the pen name Andrew Kent. I’ve always been a publishing person, from the time I spent studying copyright pages in books around age 8 to creating what still look like sophisticated magazines as an adolescent using only [...]

Kent Anderson wrote a new blog post: A Publishing Person Self-Publishes

Kent Anderson works in scholarly publishing, runs the blog The Scholarly Kitchen, and writes the Johnny Denovo Mysteries under the pen name Andrew Kent.
I’ve always been a publishing person, from the time I spent studying copyright pages in books around age 8 to creating what [...]

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