Tagged: books

February 4, 2014 @ 5:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pubslush Launches Enhanced Community Management for Publishers, Industry Professionals. This week Pubslush co-founders, Hellen and Amanda Barbara, have announced the addition of a new community feature to their crowdfunding platform.  The crowdfunding platform that allows authors to host their literary projects, will now allow Publishers,… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 9:53 am By John Biggs  |  

I didn’t want to be a self-published author. Self published authors are nebbishy zeroes, secure in their own self-regard, quixotic in their efforts, shameless in their self-promotion. They are shambling ghosts of anger and resentment, ignored by the establishment and unappreciated by their peers. One… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Quartz | 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time The “Internet of Things” movement is alive and growing and Quartz predicts that things will really take off in 2014. Of course, crowdfunding stands to be front and center… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 9:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Wattpad is a company that provides users of their app with millions of free stories to read via mobile devices and tablets. They have just announced the addition of a crowdfunding service that will allow authors to ask the crowd to fund future works. The… Read More

July 6, 2013 @ 3:31 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

HarperCollins, who publishes Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, has filed a notice under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. That has forced Kickstarter to pull a project that aimed to bring an unlicensed sequel of the book to backers. Geoffery O. Todd and Rich Berner had… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 9:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This week the folks behind the For Dummies® series of self help and reference books announced a new title focusing on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. From the press release… Today, the world’s bestselling reference series, For Dummies® announces Kickstarter For Dummies (Wiley, 978-1-118-50543-4, May 2013, US… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 8:27 am By Huffington Post  |  

If you’re doing it right, it’s the toughest job you’ll ever take on. You’ll feel anxious, elated, irritated, grateful, frustrated, righteous and exhausted. You’ll spend double shifts at the computer, Facebooking, Tweeting, sending out news releases and answering backer’s queries. There will be hair pulling,… Read More

December 15, 2012 @ 9:45 am By Technorati  |  

Despite Congressional laws putting crowdfunding on hold and making normally fruitful investment decisions easy, other methods to obtain much needed funds for projects – like writing books – has taken an interesting turn with recent launches of fundraising sites geared towards allowing anyone with authorship prowess to… Read More

November 6, 2012 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The journalist Dirk von Gehlen was able to find 200 investors for a book project on “Culture as Software”. Together they paid within 5 days the target amount of 5000 Euros, now the project is featured on the crowdfunding platform Startnext with over 6000 Euros. Dirk von… Read More