Driven to Digital Distraction: Why You Need to Deal with the Publishing Business |
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| Authors: | Anderson, Porter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | LAN027000, LAN002000, LAN005040 |
| ISBN: | 9781440351488, Related ISBNs: 1440351481, 9781440351488 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 17, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: "Publishing has now entered a state of continual change. That won't change." So says journalist and industry expert Porter Anderson in "Driven to Digital Distraction." In this exclusive e-book, you'll learn how and why you must become a digitally minded author to compete in the marketplace and treat your writing like a business rather than a hobby.
Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson), BA, MA, MFA, is a journalist, speaker, and consultant specializing in book publishing. Formerly with CNN, the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media, he is editor in chief of Publishing Perspectives, the magazine for the international publishing industry, founded by German Book Office New York. With Jane Friedman, he produces The Hot Sheet newsletter, providing publishing industry news expressly for authors in a biweekly e-mail subscription. Anderson also writes the #MusicForWriters series on contemporary composers for Thought Catalog and is the former associate editor of TheFutureBook for London's The Bookseller. Learn more about Porter at porteranderson.com.
Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson), BA, MA, MFA, is a journalist, speaker, and consultant specializing in book publishing. Formerly with CNN, the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media, he is editor in chief of Publishing Perspectives, the magazine for the international publishing industry, founded by German Book Office New York. With Jane Friedman, he produces The Hot Sheet newsletter, providing publishing industry news expressly for authors in a biweekly e-mail subscription. Anderson also writes the #MusicForWriters series on contemporary composers for Thought Catalog and is the former associate editor of TheFutureBook for London's The Bookseller. Learn more about Porter at porteranderson.com.
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