PUBLISHED NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 by David Marlin, Co-Founder, MetaComet Systems — Mistakes and inefficiencies in royalty calculations and payments can quickly escalate into publishing horror stories, but MetaComet has the remedies. Everyone in publishing has first or secondhand horror stories to tell—of bad decisions and simple mistakes that caused serious disruption or even ended a business. …

PUBLISHED NOV/DEC 2019 by Stephanie Beard, Executive Editor, Turner Publishing — I was recently in a conversation with a colleague, and the discussion turned to whether or not the publishing industry has a common enough set of business practices—from royalties to release formats—for us to really refer to an “industry standard” when discussing these business …

PUBLISHED NOV/DEC 2019 by Elizabeth Turnbull, Senior Editor/Partner, Light Messages Publishing — If you give yourself the right tools early on, you’ll free up valuable time so you can focus on growth. Article Synopsis: There are a set of milestones that must be met for every book published and put on the market for sale. …

PUBLISHED NOV/DEC 2019 by Deb Vanasse, Reporter, IBPA Independent magazine — Publishers need to make the most of recent innovations while keeping an eye on emerging technologies to remain competitive. Article Synopsis: Publishers may see an expansion of cloud-based, internet-ready authoring systems. E-book and audiobook technologies have not been fully tapped into and continue to …

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2016 by Juli Saitz (Ankura Consulting Group) & Steve Gillen (Wood Herron & Evans) The relationship between publisher and author is an interdependent one. If the author doesn’t write well and on schedule, the publisher has nothing to develop, market, and sell. On the other hand, no matter how well an author writes, …

The publishing industry is in a state of flux. We all know that. The digital revolution has upended the book business in under 10 years. But, truth be told, we’re just at the beginning of the changes we’re going to see in the way books are distributed. We need to admit that, and we need …

PUBLISHED MAY 2016 by Juli Saitz & Steve Gillen In the typical transaction between a book author and a publisher, the author grants to the publisher certain exclusive rights in a manuscript and, in exchange, gets from the publisher a right to receive a portion of the publisher’s proceeds from commercial exploitation of the rights …

From the Written Word to the Spoken Word: Our Audiobook Journey December 2013 by Bill Boik As I started to write this article, we were preparing to release our first audiobook through Audible.com. We had not planned to release an audiobook this year, but then Lorraine Lotzof Abramson, the author of our bestseller—My Race: A Jewish …

We’ve all been there. You’ve found the perfect photo . . . verse . . . song lyrics . . . vignette . . . you name it . . . to open your book or a chapter within it or to use within the text. Having labored long and hard to locate just the …

Now that businesses regularly use photos not only in print materials but also across the digital and mobile world, publishers must find images for everything from company Websites and author blogs to social media sites and beyond. Often, they turn to stock photo sites in hopes of discovering the best photo for the job while …