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or its members why bother to go to the expense and effort of building your own solution why not simply partner with an existing service such as lulu com which is bound to be more efficient and less costly is authonomy authentic 16 january 2009 in authors general publishing social media writing tags authonomy authors harpercollins manuscripts pod publishing slush pile social media 17 comments bren macdibble alerted me on facebook to some grumblings about harpercollins authonomy site authonomy participant alexander mcnabb fought his way to a top 5 ranking on the site spurred on by the promise that each month harpercollins would read the top 5 ranked manuscripts what he got was not what he expected but the hc review of my book next to the gold star on the book page was slapdash and odd and many other writers who d got to the top of the greasy pole as some called it got the same feeling now over 25 chart topping reviews five months into the exercise hc has not asked for one full read from a writer whose book reached the top let alone taken anything further to any degree yesterday hc sent me a note offering me the chance to put my books up as pod print on demand or publish on demand books on authonomy soon according to the email all books on authonomy will be available as pod books but for now only a few early adopters have been offered the opportunity and a gift of the first 10 books free for those who ve not discovered it yet authonomy is harpercollins uk s social networking experiment for authors authors can upload all or part of their manuscripts to an online community the best ranked submissions based on the community s votes are read by harpercollins editors members also have chance to converse and swap critical feedback i m not a member of authonomy and am certainly not in a position to judge whether alexander s account is accurate but regardless of whether hc editors are reading full manuscripts or not the move toward pod sales of members books is disquieting my best friend s favourite adage is it s all about managing expectations harpercollins have clearly encouraged certain expectations among aspiring authors flocking to the site authonomy s tag line is beat the slush which holds out to authors the promise of catching the attention of publishers who are seeking fresh new talent in the original media release that accompanied the announcement of authonomy harpercollins stated for aspiring authors the site is both a new route to publication with a leading publishing house and a genuine base from which to build a long term following online authonomy also reinforced this expectation on the site itself both in the faqs and in its own harpercollins response thread on the forum we thought this would be obvious but perhaps we need to spell this one out our editors _do_ browse the site looking for manuscripts that meet their requirements and if we like something we follow up directly to pre empt the sceptical who seem to doubt everything we say yes we re in dialogue with a number of authors from authonomy harpercollins have at no point promised any author any outcome at all other than to read the most popular content posted to the site but all of these messages create a very strong expectation that authonomy was set up as a pathway to publication for aspiring authors if it s true harpercollins will now be offering members the opportunity to sell their work to the community via print on demand presumably for a fee or by ceding some rights and sales revenue members would be justified in feeling their expectations have been betrayed many authonomy members have posted their own reactions on the site s forums here are a few authonomy has moved from potentially innovative to concretely exploitative richard p s slow moving slush pile is one thing but captive market and preying on our desires to be published is another thing it s just cruel lulu already exists and at least you know what you re doing when you sign in there macdibble if i wanted to pod i d have gone as i think diane said to lulu by now i don t i thought that no was led to believe that authonomy was a genuine effort to create a peer reviewed community based filter for publishable writing and by publishable i don t mean pod alexander i will emphasise not all responses from authonomy users on the forums are negative ones for balance i recommend you read through the threads yourself to assess what the reaction has been but to me it appears the majority of users at least those bothering to voice their thoughts on the forum are feeling misled at the heart of this anger and disquiet in the authonomy membership is harpercollins failure to understand online communities authonomy has all the trendy social networking bells and whistles it s got well trafficked discussion boards and user generated content but social networking platforms at their most vibrant cede control to the community they don t in fact can t hoard it for the platform developer which is why facebook is having trouble monetising itself authonomy users came to the site because of an expectation they were sold by harpercollins having built up a successful community those users don t now wish to be told by harpercollins to do or be something else especially when it s transparently about making money for harpercollins or as put by an authonomy member hidden agenda how about a rollout plan that hasn t been shared an intent to create a site in phases without sharing with or consulting the people that populate that site how about misrepresenting the site to those people as you do your rollout what does that make you alexander i wonder what harpercollins answer will be where the bloody hell are you 7 january 2009 in authors publishing tags australia authors kate eltham publishing queensland small press spunc 7 comments jess haberman has been musing about where to base herself as a publisher i find this fascinating because i live in a large australian state that is very decentralized quick geography lesson australia is about the same size in land area as the continental united states but with only six states and two territories this makes most of our states extremely large but queensland my state is the second largest in fact at 1 852 642 km2 queensland takes up one quarter of the total area of australia it is further from brisbane to cairns cities both in queensland than it is from brisbane to melbourne three states away despite being the third most populous state we are also decentralised in nearly all other states and territories a high percentage of the population 65 or more is clustered in and around the capital cities such as sydney melbourne and perth in queensland this figure is only 45 quick publishing industry lesson similar to london and new york australia s publishing industry is concentrated in one major city sydney at least that s how it is for the major trade publishers the big six harpercollins hachette australia pan macmillan random house allen and unwin and penguin by extension that s also where most of the literary agents are but here s something interesting some of the most innovative and energetic publishing in australia is taking place outside of sydney and outside of traditional industry networks at the mid size level of the industry a swag of publishers are really performing above and beyond what might be expected for their size particularly uqp brisbane scribe and text melbourne and fremantle press western australia melbourne is also the locus of a vibrant exploding small press scene with small independents flourishing in every other state such as small change press ticonderoga wakefield press eatbooks and pulp fiction press there are any number of conclusions you could draw from this spread of the publishing map for publishers i would suggest that it doesn t matter if you are located close to the hub of industry activity or not there are now few if any barriers to publishing damn fine books wherever you are jess haberman offers good arguments for not being based in the city at all adopting a friendlier small town lifestyle which is likely more supportive of small businesses but more than this i wonder if the evidence in australia demonstrates you re actually better off not being situated in the swirling vortex of the publishing industry at all if the publishers listed above are anything to go by perhaps the distance lends some kind of perspective or inspiration for excellence and new innovation for writers i think isolation is a tough burden and geographical isolation in australia can be acute especially in queensland writers don t need to be physically close to agents and publishers to sell a book nor do they need to be physically close to other writers to participate in vibrant social networks they just need a reliable internet connection that s a whole other story but i ve seen the lightbulbs go on over authors heads when they attend a seminar or panel with publishers and agents and hear directly from industry professionals how the business works i ve seen the spark of new connections and relationships i wonder if the mushrooming of small publishers in regional towns across australia could in turn further support the development of writers in those communities what are your thoughts i m keen to hear from publishers and regional readers on this one note here s some bonus material on the australian tourism debacle that inspired the title of this post how do you pitch digital 12 september 2008 in authors publishing writing tags authors digital publishing getting published 5 comments there are pretty tried and true methods of getting a publisher to look at your book manuscript there are only so many pathways you write a manuscript and either take your chances in the slush find yourself an agent or more rarely leverage a contact or referral that gets your manuscript in front of someone who can do something with it regardless of which pathway you find yourself on the method of presentation doesn t change much a pitch or synopsis and some sample chapters for a novel a proposal or outline for non fiction what about digital if you re a savvy author with a great pitch for a digital publishing project how do you talk to a publisher about it who s even listening can innovative digital projects only be conceived and driven by publishers or specialist companies like 4th story media which is doing the amanda project or are publishers interested in hearing ideas from authors themselves quite a few authors i talk to these days are already thinking ahead to digital channels as they develop their manuscripts for some this is marketing oriented and they make plans for promoting the book in various online platforms but for others their story is digital native and the online channels are integral to the telling of the narrative we need new protocols that assist authors to start the conversation with foreward thinking publishers who are interested in input from all kinds of places crack yer spine 12 september 2008 in author promotion general tags authors books penguin uk publishing spinebreakers ya fiction 1 comment i was sure that i wrote a blog post about penguin uk s spinebreakers website when it was launched but a quick search of the archives reveals i only dreamed i did nevertheless i ve been meaning to write another first post for a while the site has been operating for more than a year now and it has really grown into the lively online space for young readers that it always promised to be here s what i love and admire about spinebreakers it s an online book community for teenagers run by teenagers the editorial team is aged between 13 and 18 years and clearly changes and refreshes regularly i ve seen at least one call out for new contributors and editors since i ve been following the site spinebreakers welcomes your content instead of just talking at you about books the site is chock full of opportunities to contribute content whether it be writing book reviews submitting video poems making book trailers or writing an alternative chapter for your favourite book the editorial team are fantastic curators this not a my space style social network not that there s anything wrong with that but we have plenty of them already the spinebreakers crew of more than 30 teenagers keep up a constant stream of quality author interviews writing tips book info short stories and yes commentary i have the rss feed in google reader and would probably get more than a dozen items a day from spinebreakers it s fresh spinebeakers is an experience not just a website the best part of all except for me living in australia is that spinebreakers have branched out into live events such as author talks and writing workshops the first spinebreakers live on july 25th was a muster of more than 50 teenagers who worked with mentors on film creation music production and creative writing as i so often do these days i found myself whingeing they didn t have anything that cool when i was a teenager i wrote a while back about deep niches and the potential for publisher driven sites to realise the value of vertical channels spinebreakers along with the new tor com website are examples of exciting initiatives in this direction of course i can t know if or how spinebreakers has impacted on penguin s book sales of ya fiction but i do know they have attracted a loyal and active audience including me a unified field theory of publishing in the networked era 9 september 2008 in authors business models general publishing social media writing tags authors bob stein if book institute for the future of the book new media publishing leave a comment bob stein has published a brilliant piece over at if book about the paradigm of the book in a networked world and the role authors readers editors publishers can play in generating and curating book content i place those quotation marks deliberately because stein interrogates the notion of the book as artefact whether print or multimedia and discusses how this concept has changed as we ve evolved into a networked society image gavinbell reading and writing have always been social activities but that fact tends to be obscured by the medium of print we grew up with images of the solitary reader curled up in a chair or under a tree and the writer alone in his garret the most important thing my colleagues and i have learned during our experiments with networked books over the past few years is that as discourse moves off the page onto the network the social aspects are revealed in sometimes startling clarity these exchanges move from background to foreground a transition that has dramatic implications this is essential reading but bob is also encouraging comments and discussion link to article a unified field theory of publishing in the networked era by bob stein visit the institute for the future of the book how to get published 4 september 2008 in general tags authors publishing 3 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