Back in September of 2017, we wrote about a series of complaints Amazon had filed against users of the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Direct publishing platforms. In briefs filed with the… Read more »

It’s become a staple of modern journalism to report on the marketing presentations of major tech companies. Apple, of course, invented these spectacles with Steve Jobs standing on a dark,… Read more »

Neil Balthaser, whose start-up Intellogo we’ve covered on MobyLives before, has heard about The Bestseller Code, the recent book by book-tech duo Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers that takes as its… Read more »

As Amazon encroaches ever further into the book business with their own publishing arm and, now, a slew of brick-and-mortar stores, there’s nothing more heartening than watching independent bookstores thinking… Read more »

As we recently wrote on MobyLives, Lena Dunham has been making forays into publishing, launching an online mag and newsletter, Lenny Letter, and starting her own imprint at Random House, also… Read more »

Further dispatches from Australia, the Florida of the world It’s not hard to get arrested for writing (or publishing) books. It happens when the government doesn’t like the cut of your… Read more »

In the “philosophy” section of book tech startup Inkitt’s website, the “data-driven agent and publisher” confirms the failure of traditional publishing by citing the essence-of-worn-leather fact that Harry Potter was,… Read more »

Empowered by digital markets such as Amazon, Google Books, Lulu.com and Wattpad, self-publishing has surged into relevance. Andy Weir (The Martian), Hugh Howey (Wool), Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Redemption), and Paul… Read more »

In the latest dispatch from the world of publishing fraud, a California couple has pled not guilty after being charged with, among other things, a publishing services scam that allegedly netted them $300,000.… Read more »

A book called A Gronking to Remember is causing a stir, and not because of its title. The self-published erotic novel is about a woman who falls in love with… Read more »