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Jane Friedman

Cincinnati
As seen in: Jane Friedman, LinkedIn, The New York Times, HuffPost, Wiley Online Library, Before and After the Book Deal, Book Post, Substack, The Christian Science Monitor, Constant Contact, Nieman Lab and
Covers:  book publishing, digital media, authorship, business of writing
I report on the publishing industry. No longer active on this platform.
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How the Pandemic Is Affecting Book Publishing

How the Pandemic Is Affecting Book Publishing

janefriedman.com — The dramatic shifts to online sales makes it critical that publishers and authors adjust marketing strategies and build new skill sets.
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VQR " Blog " Innovative Serial Fiction in an App: Q&A with Eli Horowitz

VQR " Blog " Innovative Serial Fiction in an App: Q&A with Eli Horowitz

Virginia Quarterly Review — This month, a new experiment in digital storytelling has launched: The Silent History. Described as a serialized, exploratory novel for iPad and iPhone, this stand-alone app delivers brief installments to your iOS device over a period of six months. The app itself is free and comes stocked with two brief videos as well a prologue to get you hooked. After that, you pay per volume ($1.99) or for the entire series ($8.99) to start reading. Other features include "Field Reports," parts of the story only revealed to you if and when you find yourself in the right location with your iPhone or iPad.
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PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2013: A NIEMAN LAB SERIES

PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2013: A NIEMAN LAB SERIES

www.niemanlab.org — News organizations will focus on monetization of their audience through paid content and premium membership rather than advertising. Even as online and mobile audiences continue to increase, the value of online advertising will remain stagnant, or even decline. Other organizations will see what The New York Times has done, with their newly announced digital book line, and will consider how they can thoughtfully package and sell their content to audiences in new ways and through new distribution partners or channels.
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The Basics of DIY E-Book Publishing | WritersDigest.com

The Basics of DIY E-Book Publishing | WritersDigest.com

www.writersdigest.com — About 10 years ago, the most prevalent self-publishing option called for a significant up-front investment and reliance on a publishing service company. Authors had to forfeit more than half of their royalties and grant exclusivity to a single company to sell and distribute their work. Just as traditional publishing has been transformed by the rise of e-books, today's self-publishing market has been transformed by new distribution tools that are free to use, take a smaller percentage of authors' sales, and operate on a nonexclusive basis. Authors have far more control over where their work is sold and what they earn.
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Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up

Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up

Seal Press — In Drinking Diaries, editors Leah Odze Epstein and Caren Osten Gerszberg take women's drinking stories out of the closet and into the light. Whether it’s shame, sober sex, and relapsing, or college drinking, bonding, and comparing the benefits of pot vs. booze, no topic related to alcohol is off limits in this illuminating anthology. With contributions from celebrated writers including Jacquelyn Mitchard, Daphne Merkin, Kathryn Harrison, Ann Hood, Ann Leary, Pam Houston, Jane Friedman, Elissa Schappell, Asra Nomani, Priscilla Warner, Rita Williams, and Joyce Maynard, Drinking Diaries is a candid look at the pleasures and pains of drinking, and the many ways in which it touches women’s lives.
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Your Straight-Forward Guide to Publication | WritersDigest.com

Your Straight-Forward Guide to Publication | WritersDigest.com

www.writersdigest.com — Don't you wish someone could tell you how close you are to getting published? Don't you wish someone could say, "If you just keep at it for three more years, you're certain to make it!"? Or, even if it would be heartbreaking, wouldn't it be nice to be told that you're wasting your time, so that you could move on, try another tack, or simply write what brings you personal pleasure, with no other aim in mind? I've counseled thousands of writers over the years, and even if it's not possible for me to read their work, I can usually say something definitive about what their next steps should be.
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Reddit AMA

Reddit AMA

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The Evolution of the Literary Agent | WritersDigest.com

The Evolution of the Literary Agent | WritersDigest.com

www.writersdigest.com — Given the magnitude of change underway in book publishing, the evolving role of the literary agent is a hot topic in industry circles. Agents have become editors as well as marketing coaches for their authors, and are likely to invest far more time in making those final sales than ever before—and possibly for lower advances. Can publishers’ royalties and sales continue to support the agency business model? Is it allowable for an agent to find other ways to make money from clients, aside from selling books to publishers? Some innovative agencies are now pursuing alternative ways of serving authors. In this roundtable, we ask four of these forward-thinking agents how they see their business changing, and what writers can expect from the agent-author relationship in the future.
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