Lever Press is making academic publishing free (for at least five years)
As regular MobyLives readers know, academic publishing is an expensive mess—one that’s seen protest after protest, ineptitude, corruption … and more corruption. No, it’s not a pretty picture, that ivory… Read more »
Your mother was right: poll confirms most writers don’t make any money
Over 9,000 authors reported their writing income in the 2014 Digital Book World Author Survey, and—spoiler!—it wasn’t very much. Specifically, 54% of traditionally published authors (and 77% of self-published), made… Read more »
Barnes & Noble and indies are like, um, peas and carrots
Or so the nation’s largest bookseller would have the record read. At the Digital Book World Conference this past week Barnes & Noble VP of eBooks Jim Hilt suggested many… Read more »