Publishing Perspectives

Bookstores From NYC to Santorini Crowdsource Cash to Survive St. Mark's in New York and Atlantis Books in Greece are just two of the bookstores that turned to the internet for financial salvation, in a growing trend. Read more »

Should You Donate to Bookstores or Just Buy Books from Them? Whether you commit money to save a bookstore via a crowdsourcing site or decide to buy books instead, it doesn't matter — everybody wins. Read more »

Gore Vidal: Our Montaigne, Our Wilde, Our Edmund Wilson Gore Vidal was our contemporary Montaigne, our Wilde, our Edmund Wilson. Many of his books will last, with the essays being among the most vital. Read more »

A Case Study in Selling E-Books Abroad: Bastei Lübbe’s Apocalypsis In June, Bastei Lübbe began offering Apocalypsis, a bestselling German serialized digital-first novel, in English in the US and UK. Here's how they did it. Read more »

Selling Rights vs. Translating It Yourself, The Debate Continues Translating and selling a book directly abroad is an alternative to selling the rights outright — and it's not new. What's best depends on you and the book. Read more »

From the Archives:

How Authors, Booksellers, Archivists Are Crowdsourcing Funding Online Here, we look at three book-related projects — a comic book, an online library, and a new bookstore — to see if they succeeded in getting the money they needed. Read more »