Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Publishers & Publishing Industry

In Plotting the Character-driven Novel, Linda Rodriguez turns her sought-after writing course on using depth of character as a springboard to a strong plot into a book designed to help the aspiring writer who wants to tell a story made compelling by the truth and complexity of its characters. She provides examples of actual documents she has used in creating her own award-winning books to demonstrate the methods she teaches. Great plot springs from character and the motivations each character has for taking or not taking action. How do you use character as the springboard to a strong plot...

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series brought out cheap editions of modernist works. Books by writers including H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, were published and marketed alongside detective fiction and other books that we would now class as middlebrow . Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the mix of highbrow and popular literature in the Modern Library and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement. She uses previously unknown material from publishers' archives to bring fresh...

How do I submit my manuscript? Does it need editing? To ebook or not to ebook What does a print run cost? Do I need Facebook/Twitter/GoodReads? Why are yesterday's methods no good today?

At Stellium, we deal with these questions every day. All valid and important queries, they show very clearly that there's far more to publishing than appears at first sight. In the toughest environment ever, you need this book, no matter what kind of project you desire.

Sasha Fenton knows publishing; she knows writing: An author herself, Sasha has written 133 books (to date),...

The earliest publication and distribution of news between the invention of printing and the first real newspaper.

United States Government publications are books collectors have not sought, bibliographers have not analyzed, historians have rarely considered. But publication is a necessary part of law-making and law-enforcing, and as the historian J. H. Powell traces national printing through its first forty years (until the British fired the capital in 1814) these dry-as-dust public documents become vivid, exciting elements in the lively story of how a new nation was built.

In this volume collectors will find many "firsts" in public documents, bibliographers will discover unknown chapters in the...

Books ranging from classics such as A Farewell to Arms, Lord of the Rings, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Color Purple as well as best-selling books such as Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret, titles in the Harry Potter series, and various books by bestselling novelist Stephen King have all been on the banned books list. What was the content that got them banned, who wanted them banned, and did the ban have the desired effect of minimizing the number of people who read the title--or did it have the opposite effect, inadvertently creating an even...

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The convergence of online book selling, digital printing, digital document workflow management and the computerization of small parcel logistics created a unique opportunity to create a viable commercial model for printing and supplying books on demand. This innovation was swiftly embraced by the academic publishing community heralding the rescue of the languishing academic monograph. The possibilities captured the imagination of creative academic and niche publishers enabling custom publishing, student editions of monographs, self-compiled wiki books and even the establishment of new...

Beautiful eBook formatting is not expensive; in fact, it's more reasonable than you think. For years, I paid handsomely for someone to format my eBooks, not to mention I had to wait a week or two to get it done; now, I do it myself. I save money and I get it done in one night.

Aren't your readers worth more than a plain-vanilla eBook thrown together by an automated conversion system?

Don't they deserve the best?