Issuu - You Publish A Photo Editor - Photo Book Publishers Australian Book By Australian Publisher, Wins Best Photography Prize at PHotoEspaña (PHE10) Australian photographer Max Pam’s Atlas Monographs published by T&G Publishing Sydney has taken out the coveted “Best Photography Book Prize (International Category)” for the 2010 edition at PHotoEspaña in Madrid. PHotoEspaña International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts is a major event in the annual calendar attracting an audience of more than 600,000 from around the world. Atlas Monographs was named in the top 100 Best Photography Books of the Year for 2010, the only Australian book to make the list. Publisher Gianni Frinzi was advised of the win in the “Best Photography Book Prize (International Category)” this week. “We are absolutely delighted with the win. “T&G is focused on bringing the best of Australian photography to the world.
Do writers need paper? Prospect Magazine As the sales of e-books finally start to soar, what effect will this digital revolution have on publishers, readers and writers? Will the novel as we know it survive? The author Lionel Shriver is someone, she tells me, who enjoys “a conventional authorial life: I get advances sufficient to support me financially; I release my books through traditional publishing houses and write for established newspapers and magazines.” But Shriver, who won the 2005 Orange prize for her eighth novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, is also keeping an increasingly uneasy eye on the situation of 21st-century authors. The tyranny of choice is a near-universal digital lament. I’ve spent the last few months talking to authors, publishers and agents about the future, and it’s clear that Morrison’s feelings are far from unusual. Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. There are new possibilities in this, many of them marvellous.
Why and How I Self-Published a Book Altucher Confidential Posted by James Altucher I just self-published a book. “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive”. I published it in paperback form, kindle, and free PDF (see directions below to get free PDF). I’ve written a prior post on my sales and advances on first five books which were all published with major publishers. The book publishing industry is dead and they don’t know it. Why did I self-publish? Advances are quickly going to zero. Most importantly, the book industry sells “books”. (12 million typewriters sold in 1950. 400,000 in 2009) I’ll give you a quick example. I don’t want to trash the publishers. Despite my five books I am sure zero publishers would’ve published “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive!” I recently looked at the Bookscan numbers for a bunch of very well known finance authors. Thinking about finance is the opposite of the true goal, which is being happy. But so what? And I’m willing to bet not a single publisher would’ve touched it.
Awesome publishing technology One of the Web developers at work made the mistake the other day of asking how old I am, which led me to say I'm old enough to have worked in a world where newspapers set type with molten lead. Giant cauldrons of molten lead! Tonight I ran across this wonderfully detailed image of a Mergenthaler Linotype, circa 1965, on Wikipedia (copyright Deutschen Museum, Munich): To see one of these in action is to witness a marvel of engineering, from the point of view of a century ago. From the point of view of a little kid walking through the composing room of the East St. Ever wonder where computers got ASCII code? The Linotype's keys clattered up and down as if operated by invisible hands. But the real scary part was the long arm, marked "elevator" in the diagram, which dipped down to grab, lift and recycle the brass matrices after a line had been cast. Terrifying! These machines, along with the rotary press, enabled the creation of mass-circulation newspapers and thereby shaped modern journalism.