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This *may* be the future of picture books
Wanna see something cool? Have a gander at the Kno – a gadget that's currently being marketed to students and educators as a textbook/notebook replacement. The current incarnation is pretty expensive...
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How Do You Feel About the Revolution?
Whenever a group of children's book authors gather together, the conversation inevitably turns to the current state of publishing. More to the point: What exactly is a children's book these days? And —...
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New Search Engine Makes Finding Children’s Book Apps Easy
As a writer, you know how important it is to study the market and read books that target the same audience as your manuscript. And the same applies if you're developing a children's book app. But if...
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Check out our new baby: eWriting4Kids.com!
We're pretty excited about the future of children's publishing. To spread our optimism, we've just created a new blog that will focus solely on the brave new world of ePublishing — and the...
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Worried About eBook Piracy? Consider this…
I know that many writers are concerned that eBooks and apps will lead to their work being downloaded and passed around without recompense. Fair enough. But then there's this, from musician Martin...
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2010 Sales Figures for Children’s Books Announced
Publishers Weekly has just published 2010 sales figures for top-selling children's books in hardcover, paperback and e-book format. Some trends to note: most of the best-sellers are either part of a...
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Barnes & Noble Exec: eBooks on Pace to Outsell Print
More confirmation of the seismic changes in publishing, this time from Barnes & Noble VP Marc Parrish at the recent GigaOm Big Data conference in New York: "The book business is changing more...
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E-Book Sales Surge, Outpacing Print
The Association of American Publishers just released sales figures for February of this year, revealing that e-book sales have surged over 200% since February 2010. In fact, e-books were the highest...
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Amazon’s New Kindle Lending Library Offers 11,000 eBooks Via Your Local Library
Kindle Lending Library Coming Later in 2011 Amazon's Kindle Lending Library, debuting later in 2011, is a notable step for Amazon, which will offer more than 11,000 of its Kindle ebooks for loan via...
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The Book is Alive, Well, and Often Self-Published
It seems that reports of the death of books have been greatly exaggerated (with apologies to Mark Twain). As the numbers continue to roll in, it's clear that people still read, more titles are being...
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Cory Doctorow on Copyright, Building a Tribe of Readers & More. A Free eBook...
Portrait by Jonathan Worth http://jonathanworth.com When it comes to publishing's future, there are two kinds of writers: those who shy away from change and those who embrace and benefit from change....
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Discover an Exciting New Way to Get Published…at our new Write4Kids.tv!
. .. It's time to reveal our super-secret project: Write4Kids! TV. It's a web video channel devoted exclusively to writing children's books, and will feature video interviews with authors, editors...
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Apple Adds Read-Aloud Feature to iBooks
Last June Apple rolled out its Version 1.3 of iBooks, which contains a read-aloud feature especially useful for children's ebooks. The text is read out loud by a human narrator (no computer voice), and...
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Enhanced Ebooks: The Next Area of Author/Publisher Negotiation
Now that ebooks have finally captured a share of the market, publishers are looking at so-called enhanced ebooks as the next big development. However, for a variety of reasons, the future for enhanced...
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Teen Writing Site Publishes First Book
In another alternative to publishing traditionally or, more recently, with companies like Amazon, the teen writing site Figment has just announced the publication of its first book. Created as an...
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Check Out the New CBI Clubhouse!
Those of you who are Fightin' Bookworms (members of our CBI Clubhouse online community) know that in the two years since we've launched the site, we've amassed a huge amount of information on writing...
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The Book is Not Dead
It's impossible these days to read any posts having to do with publishing without the obligatory "the book is dead" comments. And yet with another click you'll find articles about how reading is up 20%...
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When Corporations Squabble, Readers Suffer…
The publishing world's latest snub-fest raised the stakes this month with two developments: * Barnes & Noble announced that it will not carry any Amazon-published titles in its stores. This...
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Two New Tools Help Self-Publishers Create and Sell Enhanced EBooks
Self-publishing enhanced eBooks gets easier every day. One new advance is the Vook publishing platform, a comprehensive, cloud-based tool that allows authors and publishers to turn any document into a...
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