This morning Five Rivers reached an agreement to publish seven books by well-known Toronto-based freelance writer, Paul Lima. In January 2009, Five Rivers released Lima’s How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days. To date it has gone on to sell almost 700 copies in Canada, the US and UK, and has constitently held the top 100 spot in its category on both UK and Canadian Amazon sites. It is available through online…
Some of you have asked about submission guidelines at Five Rivers. The guidelines can easily be found on our website at http://www.5rivers.org/contents/en-ca/d89.html, but in the interest of clarity I’m posting them here for you. Five Rivers Chapmanry is a micro-publisher of fiction and non-fiction, catering to new Canadian authors. We employ print on demand technologies as part of responsible management of environmental and financial resources by printing only the books required, rather than warehousing thousands, thereby…
As many of you know by now publishing world giants Amazon and Macmillan fired salvos at each other over the weekend, resulting in authors, pundits, corporate captains, and the public tossing about comments, criticisms and invectives. To synopsise, as I view it, Amazon had its corporate knickers in a knot over Macmillan’s pricing policy (eBook prices over $9.99.), and yanked Macmillan’s titles from their online catalogue. Macmillan responded, as did its authors and the world,…
On Writing: A memoir of the CraftBy Stephen King 297pp. Review by Robert Runté I’ve been an academic and editor for 30 years, but am now working on my first novel. Two-thirds of the way through, I felt the need for a little moral support, so ordered a shelf of books on writing from Amazon.ca. This one happened to be on top of the stack when I went on holidays and needed something for the…
A very cogent analysis of the current fight between Macmillan (one of the major American publishers) and Amazon that has Amazon removing ALL of Macmillian’s titles from its “shelves” is presented by author Charles Stross. Stross is mostly focused on the fate of the large commercial legacy publishers here, but in an aside points out that if monster corporations like Macmillan can’t take on Amazon, micropresses like ours and self-publishers will have to accept any…