Inevitably, when discussing the best way to market comics to a larger, non-indoctrinated audience, someone will suggest “good writing and art” as the sure-fire remedy. The mirror image of this is accusing publishers of employing “cheap publicity stunts.” I was on the receiving end of this charge from Gary Groth of The Comics Journal when…
Mike Bullock, Barry Reese, and Bobby Nash are back for another installment of NewPulpFiction’s Table Talk. This week, the guys discuss the rising cost of books and what it means to readers, writers, and publishers. Table Talk: At What Price? with Mike Bullock, Barry Reese, and Bobby Nash is now available at http://www.newpulpfiction.com/.
Breaking into the New Pulp field a year ago, Pro Se Productions. initially a two man small press publisher, first made its mark with a line of New Pulp magazines. Due to various reasons, Pro Se made the decision in March, 2011 to end its three magazines and to focus exclusively on books and anthologies/collections….
With all the attention paid to the flashy artists of the moment at the major publishers, it’s always refreshing to see that the talented and reliable artists also get their due. Flesh Publications can usually be counted on for classy packages featuting artists who deserve your attention even if they don’t illustrate your favorite monthly…
Crazy 8 Press exists because the founders — Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Bob Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Aaron Rosenberg, and Howard Weinstein — have found selling their original works to mainstream publishers increasingly difficult. Illogical barriers have been erected and the website was conceived to directly connect the authors with the readers. The concept was…
Increasingly, publishers are making their titles available in digital form the day the print version hits shops. Today’s release from BOOM! is just the latest in this trend. Some retailers accept it as an inevitable realty, others cry about it. What do you, the readers, think? PHILADELPHIA — Taking another step toward offering comics in…
BookExpo America is in town, and there are a few obvious themes, but a lot of it seems to be “more of the same”. Sales efforts seem to be going to the same old licensed properties and celebrity products– I was surprised that IDW didn’t even have any of Darwyn Cooke’s Parker adaptations on display,…
Yesterday. the future arrived. [[[Amazon]]] announced that eBooks are now the most popular sales format on Amazon.com, outselling the joint sales of hardback and paperback books. Since April 1, 2011, for every 100 print books Amazon has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle editions. It took Amazon just about four years to make that statement…
Closing them in our browsers so you can open them on yours… In honor of the start of principal photography on The Dark Knight Rises, we present this picture from Dan Hipp. A Guide To The Complete Works Of Newt Gingrich, Novelist: With special thanks to William R. Fortschen. (Publishing humor, ain’t it hilarious?) And…
Over at Making Light, former Valiant Comics editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden started a thread on trying to explain marketing categories in publishing, and how they’re not solely determined by the content: Say your book features a strange and powerful device, the Transnistrian Infundibulator: If the storyline is about the inception, interim difficulties, and eventual happy…
Marvel Faces a Mighty Foe: Publishing World Uncertainties – NYTimes http://ow.ly/4p5aY #
ALL PULP NEWSSTAND BULLDOG EDITION 1/18/11 SEVEN REALMS ANNOUNCES SIGNING OF AUTHOR AND NEW SCI FI THRILLER! From Seven Realms Publishing- Publishing is an exciting and wonderful business to be in. Not only do we have the opportunity to work with some of the biggest and brightest stars in the business, but we have the…
