Publishing Biz Buzz (what's happening that impacts writers)
Update for December xx, 2009 The future of electronic publishing (ebooks)
In a recent interview, Electronic Publishing USA Today's Bob Minzesheimer wrote on a essay on the decade in books. Looking further forward, "asked about 2019, Stephen King sees 40% of fiction and 25% of non-fiction sales as e-books, but their 'essentially ephemeral nature will probably keep them from biting any deeper, even when delivery quality improves.' Overall book sales 'will decline slightly or remain steady.' These days, that sounds like good news." USAT Molli: pick out the kindle and/or ebook info from the following: Tidbits from From Publishers’ Weekly week of December 27, 2009. • Wolf Hall Sells Over 140K in UK • Oops; Hachette Readies Audio Version of Tiger Woods' 2001 Golf Book for May • Another Take on "Disjointed but Dazzling" Decade In Books • Cactus TV's New Channel 4 Book Show Names First 10 Books • Nawotka: 2009's Top Literary Moments • Nook Has Download Problems on Christmas • As People Unwrapped Kindles, They Bought More eBooks than Physical Books from Amazon • NYT Features Open Letter Books • Customer Dissatisfaction Grows with Each New Kindle, Forum Shows--Or Does It? • Jung's 'Red Book' Selling Fine--At $195 • Electric Lit: Moody Twitter Story Worked for Us; Lesson Is "Know Your Followers" • At O'Reilly's Site, eBooks Out Sell Print 3 to 1 • Authors Guild Responds to Le Guin: "Constructive engagement...is sometimes the only realistic solution" • Ursula K. Le Guin Resigns, Noisily, from Authors Guild: "You have sold us down the river" with Google • Shucks, Bezos "Astonished" By Kindle Success; "We feel like Kindle is bigger than we are" • Annual Stats on Fiction In Translation in the US
