More Posts tagged with "Ethics"
Guy Kawasaki On Self-Publishing, Marketing Your Book and Cheating
Guy Kawasaki has advice for authors who want to self-publish. He's got some attitude too, and he's not afraid to share it.
Five Events That Rocked Publishing In 2012
2012 has been an eventful year for authors, publishing professionals and readers. Here are five events that made this year memorable (for better or worse).
Why Fairness is Hard in Publishing
Though it sounds like a cliche to talk about how Net Minds is a disruptive startup, from our values to some recent publisher complaints we've been receiving, we definitely earning our disruptive monicker. We love fairness and publishers just hate that about us!
Why Do Book Publishers Lock Up Most Of The Credit?
Open up any book on your shelf and examine the copyright-title page for credits. The list is woefully short: Publisher, author and in many cases cover design or photographer. I believe this lack of attribution leads to the (current) misguided notion that authors only need a cover design to release their book successfully. Why does this occur?
Don't Get Fooled By the Fakes of Publishing
If I told you, publishing can be a racket, you’d likely agree. But in your mind, the bad guys are the publishers and the victims are the authors. In the digital age, helped along by sleazy-cheesy marketers, it’s the readers who are the victims of the modern publishing racket. The perpetrators are ambitious authors, motivated by dreams of being published, donned a best seller and discovered by the general public.