#Publishers

Adam Ryan

AlwaysBeHustlin

When I hear the news about layoffs/furloughs @protocol, @voxdotcom, @GroupNineMedia, @bustle, @cheddar, and more I feel a mix of emotions.I feel awful for the amazing creators who lost their job.

Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

The funny/sad thing about this is that the scam relies on people not understanding how publishing contracts work. You get paid an advance against royalties. Then you earn out that

Eric Ruleman

eric_ruleman

revisiting @benthompson's Aggregation Theory from the ground-up by re-reading the 2015 post that started it all https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/Aggregators are fundamentally rent-seekers that capitalize on their monopoly

Creative Industries Council

CreativeIndsUK

A thread gathering together some useful resources for individuals and organisations in the UK's creative sector during the Covid-19 outbreak Useful resources for businesses in the UK music industry during

Sona Charaipotra

sona_c

Agree w / lovely @gildedspine's rant abt this. Saw some confusion abt what IP or write-for-hire actually means. My take as the co-founder of @CAKELiteary: get ready, because it's always

Leonard Fernandes

leonardjensan

Apropos this earlier post, where I have spoken to the near absence of Indian language publishing houses in articles on Indian publishing in the English media. These publishers rarely find

your socialist copyeditor marinda 🌟

MarindaReads

i'm sorry but when the entire conservative platform is doing things to "piss off the libs" it's hard to believe publishers are acquiring books by authors affiliated with the GOP

Myles Younger

Myles_Younger

1/ It’s prediction time on contextual advertising. The burning question: “What happens to publisher ad inventory when 3rd party data gets taken away?”https://twitter.com/garjoh_canuck/status/1166733407776399360?s=20 2/ Everyone is app

Nyx Publishing 🏳️‍🌈 Spooky Queer Books

NyxPublishing

With the news of another big-publishing merger, the space for indies and divergent publishing is squeezed even further. What can we (readers, authors, indie publishers) do? Some ideas 1)

Mary the Scary

knoxdiver

One thing that's frustrating is how little most people know about what the cost is for digital items for libraries. Library people have been talking about it more in regards

shivana sookdeo

toastasaurus

spicy take: this ignatz really has me fired up and excited for a vision of comics not dominated and steered by sales departments and anticipated criticism the upside of a

✨hamish steele✨

hamishsteele

While we wait to see if there's any official comment from Nobrow about this weekend, I'd like to urge people not to boycotting them. It won't help the artists you

Physically Distant Jeff

lang_weir

Thread: Did some thinking about the incredibly bad library article in yesterday's Globe, and thought I'd share some highlights on how lazy and intellectually dishonest it was.Some I'll share as

N. K. Jemisin

nkjemisin

::rubs face:: Folks. Okay. Gather 'round. Let me 'splain a thing.I love fanfic on general principle! I still write and read it myself! But.Stop sending me your fanfiction of my

Benedict Evans

benedictevans

“we are left with a choice of either removing news entirely or accepting a system that lets publishers charge us for as much content as they want at a price

Charlene Chua | HUG? (9/20 KidsCan)

charlenedraws

So, I often hear about self publishers talk about 'amazing deals' they get off Fivrr etc for their illustrations. While I won't say this is outright bad, I think there