A Hellacious Mess: Unbound Established in 2011, UK-based crowdfunded publisher Unbound styled itself the Kickstarter for books and was widely heralded as the next big idea in publishing. Heady words like “disruption” and “paradigm” were tossed around, and the company’s launch garnered substantial positive media coverage. (This blog post from Nail Your Novel provides anRead More| Writer Beware
Early on, there was hope that the book community would thrive on Threads. Instead, it is a gossip and misinformation machine.| kathleenschmidt.substack.com
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Jane Friedman takes a look at how the book publishing industry has changed over the past ten years. I’d suggest that take her piece with a grain of salt; here data source (AAP revenue statistics) only reflects a minority of the book publishing industry. Last […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Anthropic has announced a settlement in the massive piracy lawsuit they were losing. Yikes – if your publisher promised to register your copyright, you might want to double check that. The Kobo-Instapaper integration is now live. Jonathan Bailey is right – AI is not democratizing […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Victoria Strauss brings us news of author complaints about Fortis Publishing. Grammarly has launched an AI-powered editor. Dual-screen ereaders have had little commercial success, but they have the interest of DIY-ers. David Lee King dives into AI policies for libraries. Sandra Wendel shares info on […]| Nate Hoffelder
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I’m hearing reports that the same toxic behaviors seen on Goodreads have been spotted in the book community on Facebook’s Threads platform. A new paper from researchers at Apple explores the limitations of AI for solving puzzle and problem. Google has won part of the […]| Nate Hoffelder
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…| Apple Machine Learning Research
Here are a few stories to read this morning. Amazon has added a new accessibility feature section to KDP. After 5 centuries, it appears use of the semicolon is on the decline. The Chicago Sun Times explains how it come to publish a summer reading list consisting mostly of titles hallucinated by AI. New Jersey […]| Nate Hoffelder
0 0 0 0You’ve written the book. You’ve pressed publish. Now you’re ready to share your story with the world. Cue the eBook promotion! 🎉 At Written Word Media, we’ve seen thousands of authors run successful promotions across Freebooksy, Bargain Booksy, Reader Reach Ads, and more. And we’ve also seen a few common missteps that […]| Written Word Media
