… Read more   Would you pay more to get noticed in a bookstore?
Barnes & Noble wants that from publishers. Or at least, from Simon & Schuster.
Barnes & Noble is doing what it can to protect itself. Now that the publishing world is changing all around it and brick-and-mortar retailers, or perhaps

You may have read about how a producer of “Veronica Mars” ha already raised more than $2 million – beyond hi goal – for a big-screen version of the cult television show that starred Kristen Bell… Read more   .
Crowd-funding on sites such as Kickstarter is changing he way artists are doing

… Read more   Do you know whom you’re writing to? Do you have an ideal audience, or an ideal reader?
Many fiction writers have someone in mind to whom they write – their ideal reader is someone who “gets” them, someone who, metaphorically speaking, puts the writer at ease.
Writers of nonfiction, and