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Tag Archives: publishing
Startling innovations in democratic publishing.
A few months ago in the post, Kindle: The New Slush Pile, I talked about how publishers were offering old school deals to authors who had achieved significant sales on their own with the e-books format. Now, rather than wading … Continue reading
Posted in books, e readers, kindle, Paradigm Shift, Publishing
Tagged amazon bookshelf, authors, bad writing, e-books, Kindle, new york, platforms, publishing, pubslush, tron, wix lounge, writing
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Kindle: The New Slush Pile
It used to be that if you couldn’t get your novel published it was because you probably couldn’t write very well. Discerning editors at the big publishing houses stood between you and the reading public, wading through and rejecting the trite, the clunky and the … Continue reading
Posted in books, e readers, kindle, Paradigm Shift
Tagged books, e-books, Kindle, novels, publishing, reading, slush pile
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