One of the themes mentioned by just about every keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference last month in New York was Digital Rights Management (or DRM). This is software that prohibits unauthorized copies of media (songs, e-books, etc.). Cory Doctorow of boingboing.net fame gave an impassioned keynote titled “Digital Distribution [...]
We at Creative Byline subscribe to many newsfeeds, blogs, and newsletters about publishing and writing. As a result, we come across many interesting perspectives and new insights about the business. Here are a few from the last week or so:
On her blog, Gretchen McNeil featured an interview with agent Ginger Clark about the trends in [...]
February 20, 2009 – 10:16 am
I attended the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference last week in New York. It was well attended by an interesting mix of old-world publishing types and new-media technology types. There were a lot of predictions and pontifications, but some common themes emerged. I’ll share a few of them—at least as I saw them—over [...]
We’re happy these two houses have signed on with Creative Byline! Lyons Press, skirt!, and Globe Pequot Press Life are all imprints of Globe Pequot Press, which publishes many types of nonfiction, including books on health, style, fishing, nature, gardening, travel, and art. Zest Books, an imprint of Orange Avenue, publishes nonfiction books on teen [...]
January 22, 2008 – 11:10 am
St. Martin’s Press is our first client that publishes adult fiction and nonfiction, and we’re guessing lots of writers are as excited as we are–especially since St. Martin’s is normally closed to unagented writers. You’ll see their logo on Creative Byline’s front page under “Coming Soon,” which means that as soon as we finalize some [...]
December 28, 2007 – 10:18 am
In order for this new submission model to work, we need to get publishers as well as writers on board. We recently began working with a New York-based sales team who will do just that. Between them, they have 50 years of experience in the book industry, and they are keen to meet with their [...]
December 10, 2007 – 12:04 pm
The site was ready. We were ready. And we think writers with manuscripts are more than ready! So we took the site live, just this morning. We’re finishing up the details with more publishers and we look forward to adding them to the site very soon.
We’ve built the car. Come on in and kick the [...]
December 5, 2007 – 4:37 pm
It’s been awhile since our last post, but that doesn’t mean things haven’t been happening here. Quite the opposite! Since our last post, we’ve met with one of the major publishing conglomerates in the U.S., and we’re happy to announce that at least one of their big imprints—one that’s normally closed to unsolicited submissions–is on [...]
