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ASJA
 ASJA and the other sponsors of Banned Books Week are hosting a conversation with banned and challenged Young Adult authors in NYC on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The discussion will focus on the topic of censorship and the importance of free and open access to all books.
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ASJA
Fall is upon us, the kids are back in school and your home office is finally quiet again. It’s a great time to look for new career resources like the ones offered through ASJA. Members of ASJA have access to a support system of experienced writers, information detailing pay rates at common publications, exclusive face to face meetings with editors, and much more.
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Tam Harbert, ASJA
It's hard to be optimistic about the state of journalism today. Newspapers and magazines are bleeding red ink; some are closing their doors altogether. Employment in the news business plummeted from 55,000 in 2006 to 36,700 in 2013. Reporters have even been replaced by computer algorithms that can string together data to assemble sports, finance and other formulaic news stories.
But Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum, thinks freelance journalists have a bright future. Policinski, who is also head of the Institute's First Amendment Center, was keynote speaker at "A Capital Event," ASJA's first regional conference to be held in Washington, D.C.
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Writer's Digest
Making a book trailer is no easy feat, but to stay competitive in a highly saturated book market, it needs to be done. Recently, Tara Lynne Groth of Write Naked found my book trailer on Google+ and contacted me about doing a interview. And afterwards, guess what? She bought the book!
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The Bookseller
"I do not ask anyone for permission to publish." The founding director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), Orna Ross joined us here at The FutureBook in August to explain her limited-edition "Secret Rose" publishing project timed to #Yeats2015 observances. Now, she answers our call for manifestos on the future of the book business. "I am proud of my self-publishing status."
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The New York Times
Altice, the European telecommunications giant, agreed to buy Cablevision for $17.7 billion, as the company pushes further into the fast-consolidating United States cable market. The deal, which is expected to face stiff regulatory scrutiny, would make Altice’s expanded American operations the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Charter Communications and Cox Communications.
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Writer's Digest
Author Sandra Block writes: "We all have good excuses and better intentions, and I should know. I was the queen of them before I finally wrote my own book. The biggest challenge by far? Time. Most of us are too damn busy. Maybe it's a stressful job, night school, elderly parents, or challenging kids. Between the laundry, the dance recital, and the client project due yesterday, we barely have any time. This is reality, and yet, it's also not entirely true. There is time out there, hours and hours of it, but you have to look for it."
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Publishers Weekly
The summer was one of rediscovered classics, movie tie-ins, and backlist at indie bookstores across the country. Despite the lack of a must-have YA author or series (as with John Green or Divergent in years past), PW’s annual end-of-summer poll, which surveyed two dozen general and children's bookstores across the country, showed that children's book sales were up. Not all stores saw big boosts from two highly anticipated rediscovered works – Dr. Seuss's What Pet Should I Get? (Random House) and Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman (Harper). But even those that did reported strong sales across the board.
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The Huffington Post
Like many new self-publishers are learning, jumping into self-publishing without being aware of legal implications can lead to danger and bring upon them new challenges that they aren't prepared to face. As more self-publishers rush to place their books on the market, the number of copyright infringement lawsuits have increased. Many authors are now facing lawsuits that not only threaten their writing, but also their personal assets and savings.
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GalleyCat
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman and Paula Hawkins' novel The Girl on the Train are some of the bestselling books of the year, so it's no surprise that these books are also the most popular books being checked out of libraries in New York, Seattle, San Diego and Baltimore.
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