Content tagged with “publishing” under “The Interesting List”

“ A retrospective and examination of the ground-breaking interactive fiction series from the 1980s. ”

“ An annotated photo gallery showing the detailed process by which a physical book is produced. ”

“ Someone is using all sorts of email tricks to get early access to novel manuscripts. No one knows who they are or what they want, but everyone in the industry is paranoid. ”

“ Dan Brown might have written a weird humor book, but no one knows for sure, and you can’t seem to buy it, no matter how hard you try. ”

“ Very expensive self-published books on Amazon were likely used to launder money, purchased by people wanting to illicitly transfer funds to the seller. ”

“ A son comes to terms with his late father’s secret career as a writer of pulp porn novels. He wrestles with the darkness that grew out it and that which it might have hidden from the world. ”

“ An episode of a web series that focuses on hand-crafted goods. This one is about a dying breed of bookmaker. ”

“ The description of the sad decline of a once-great news publication is very likely a mirror to the rest of the industry. ”

“ A sobering look at how the publishing industry works, from the perspective of a promising author for whom things didn’t work out so well. ”

“ A dissection of the demise of Mic that probably mirrors every digital media outlet in the world (hence the title). Well-written and consequently depressing. ”

“ The story of the book which started the ‘heavenly tourism’ craze of a decade ago. The boy at the center of it eventually recanted the entire story, and his already-flawed family completely broke apart. ”