This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view. Click here to advertise in this news brief.   Mobile version   RSS   Subscribe   Unsubscribe   Archive   Media Kit Home   About   Annual Symposium   GWA Foundation   Board of Directors   Contact Us     Symposium presentation recordings now available GWA    Share    GWA's Annual Symposium speaker presentations, handouts and audio recordings are available below. Free session materials are shown under each session description. To purchase audio recordings of each presentation, please click on the shopping cart icon located beneath each session description and click the Paypal logo to complete your shopping process. Download individual session audio files for $5 each. More The merger apocalypse The Digital Reader    Share    In the past, consolidation has been very bad for professional editors. Somehow these mergers and purchases needed to be paid for and with supposedly declining sales in bookworld, the way to pay for the merger was to cut expenses. The primary way to cut expenses has been to cut costs in areas that consumers do not see or notice until too late, thus primarily in editorial and book production. More New stats: E-books still growing, but more slowly paidContent    Share    The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that publishers' e-book revenue is still increasing — but, as has been true for several months now, they are no longer seeing triple-digit growth in adult fiction and nonfiction e-books. In its latest "StatShot," the AAP reported 1,186 publishers' net revenue for August 2012, the latest month for which figures are available and for the year to date. More AZAMAX - BOTANICAL INSECTICIDE, MITICIDE, NEMATICIDE AzaMax is a concentrated all natural broad spectrum pest control, antifeedant and insect growth regulator, controls pests through starvation and growth disruption for a broad variety of plant applications. Effectively controls spider mites, thrips, fungus gnats, aphids, whiteflies, leaf miners, worms, beetles, leafhoppers, scales, mealy bugs, nematodes and other soil borne pests. Can be applied up to the time or day of harvest. more Region I meeting at New England Grows Feb. 8 GWA    Share    Our theme is Promoting What We Love: Plants & Our Profession. New plants and meeting new marketing challenges. AND, members get FREE registration to New England GROWS! (You will receive a code AFTER you register for the Region I meeting that can be used for complimentary registration for all three days of the trade show.) More The best and worst things about freelancing Forbes    Share    By Susannah Breslin: Why do freelancers become freelancers? What are the best things about freelancing? What are the worst? How much money do they make? I reached out to other freelancers to get their views and advice on becoming independent contractors. More GWA Writers Workshop scheduled for Jan. 4 GWA    Share    Learn how to use the Internet to build your reputation and your business. This workshop takes you in-depth to build your authority through social media. We'll discuss tools, tips and techniques you can put to work immediately. This is a mid-level course. Participants should already be comfortable using search engines to surf the Internet, and they should be familiar with one or more social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook. More Can the Internet save the novel? Salon    Share    In case this is the first article you've come across about the relationship between the internet, novels and their authors, here's a quick recap of the last few years: the internet is eroding attention spans and triggering the novel's demise, click by deleterious click. Philip Roth saw it coming in 2010, when he expressed concern that the "multiple screens" vying against the novel were causing its decline. More Garden Writers Pack Trail Special Tour April 6-11 GWA    Share    Join fellow garden communicators on a fast-paced tour of the California Pack Trials. See what the best growers will be bringing to market for the 2013 gardening season. Space is limited and the registration deadline is Jan. 1; so, act now while seats are available. More 3 quiet fears that stop writers from writing Writer's Digest    Share    By Janna Malamud Smith: An 80-plus-year-old friend of mine is on a one-woman campaign to eliminate the word "iconic" from public discourse. She's got a point. But my own current choice for vocabulary to vaporize is "creative," as in "I can't write or make art because I'm not creative." I suspect that creativity is simply a slightly more desperate form of problem solving, and its presence or absence is not likely what's making it hard for anyone to write well. More GWA Region V meeting at National Green Centre on Jan. 6 GWA    Share    Join Region V members for breakfast with Dr. Michel Dirr, hort heartthrobs on the runway and a green industry trade show with more than 100 vendors from coast to coast for the GWA Region V meeting on Sunday, Jan. 6. Your GWA meeting registration includes both days, Jan. 6-7, of The National Green Centre trade show, sponsored by the Western Nurserymen's Association, and all its educational programming. More Publishers in 'dream' position The Bookseller    Share    Publishers have "done a lot right" and are standing in a much stronger position in the digital market compared with three years ago, Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne told delegates at The Bookseller's FutureBook 2012 Conference in London. In a keynote speech, Redmayne said there had been too much negativity in the industry and that publishers were now in a position they would have thought "a dream" a couple of years back. More Selling the Excitement: GWA Speakers Workshop Feb. 23 GWA    Share    This workshop will show you many tricks of the professional speaking trade that will guarantee repeat bookings and rave reviews. Learn how to perfect your presentations and better market yourself to broader audiences. Find out how to craft stories that make your points "sticky," add original humor, improve visuals and refine your body language. Discover how to make all your topics resonate with any audience. More Revenues increase for Nook even as losses mount Digital Book World    Share    Revenues from its Nook device and digital content division increased by nearly $10 million in its second-quarter, but Barnes & Noble couldn't stop the bleeding for the unit as it continued to pile on the losses. While revenue increased for Barnes & Noble's Nook to $160.3 million from $151.8 million in the same period a year prior, losses also increased to $51.4 million from $50.8 million a year ago. More Rethinking the way we publish online GigaOM    Share    Whether you call it "shovelware" or use fancier words like "skeuomorphic," there's a pretty clear preference on the part of many publishers for creating an online or mobile experience that looks as much as possible like the physical magazine or newspaper it is intended to replace — something Apple reinforces with its Newsstand platform, which has virtual shelves with tiny virtual magazine covers and newspaper front pages. More 6 essential issues in any e-book contract negotiation Digital Book World    Share    Publishers and authors are shaping new standard contracts as the industry shifts toward digital-first and e-original book publishing. As opposed to big publishers, which are thought to pay authors a standard e-book royalty of 25 percent, new independent e-book publishers like The Atavist, Open Road Media and OR Books, can and do pay authors substantially more. But on what terms? More Barnes & Noble decides purchased e-books are only yours until your credit card expires Techdirt    Share    DRM rears its ugly, malformed, malignant, cross-eyed head again. Despite the fact that, as Cory Doctorow so aptly put it, no one has ever purchased anything because it came with DRM, an ever-slimming number of content providers insist on punishing paying customers with idiotic "anti-piracy" schemes. More 3M launches e-book lending service at metro libraries Star Tribune    Share    Forget all those tiny Dewey Decimal stickers on the spines of books. 3M's library business has gone digital. Last month, the conglomerate unveiled its eBook Lending Service in libraries in Minnesota's Ramsey, Dakota and Washington counties. It's the first big rollout in Minnesota since 3M started a pilot program with the St. Paul Public Library in April. More   GWA News Clippings Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469.420.2601 Download media kit Dennis Hall, Senior Content Editor, 469.420.2656    Contribute news This edition of GWA News Clippings was sent to ##Email##. To unsubscribe, click here. Did someone forward this edition to you? Subscribe here -- it's free! Recent issues Dec. 6, 2012 Nov. 29, 2012 Nov. 20, 2012 Nov. 14 , 2012 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063