Robert Sullivan interviewed Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling Twilight series, for — of all places — this month’s Vogue. Sullivan’s portrait of the author is very down to earth, quite different from what you’d expect from a woman who has sold 28 million books: For her, happiness is being at home or attending a [...]

The University of Pennsylvania libraries and a scanning/digitization company called Kirtas Technologies are teaming up to sell print-on-demand (POD) books. More than 200,000 titles in Penn’s public domain holdings will be digitized and made available for POD. Taking the “demand” part one step further, the books won’t even be scanned into the digital database until [...]

Once A Runner, the cult classic novel from the ’70s by John L. Parker, Jr., has been out of print for a few years. With only 100,000 copies of the self-published book in print, it is so popular that used copies of it have sold for as much as $300 on Amazon. On April 7, [...]

Dan Schawbel is a personal branding expert who is getting ready to launch his first book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, in early April. He has written a series of several articles on his blog about his experiences getting his book published and organizing his publicity campaign. Yesterday’s article is [...]

Last week, Kassia Krozser wrote a post on her publishing industry blog, BookSquare, about Digital Rights Management (DRM). She refers to it as “the most hated aspect of digital publishing” and attempts to come up with solutions to the “DRM problem.” She addresses the four main players in the game: readers, authors, publishers, and booksellers. [...]