There are about 3 million new books published every year. If you are a new author, this is supposed to intimidate and scare you. How can you compete with 3 million other books? It’s bullshit. The competition that matters Let’s say you have an idea for a business strategy book. Or a marketing book. Or…
Newsletter week 22: Stop slagging other authors, will Spotify crash audiobooks?, AI copyright posturing, three people to follow, three books to read, and some very lame ad copy. The myth of personal market share A shocking and tragic story rattled the publishing world this week. Cait Corrain, a fantasy novelist who had secured a two-book…
Do you think the people who made the movie “Barbie” are concerned that “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s dark tale of the creation of the atomic bomb, is opening on the same weekend? After all, your average moviegoer is going to see at most one of them this weekend. Surely they studios are competing for your moviegoing…
My prospects become clients quickly. They rarely choose a competing editor. This post is about how I do that . . . and what that might mean for you, if you freelance. This is typically what happens when an author is considering hiring me: They hear about me, from my blog or from another author….
Benjamin Dreyer is a copy editor who just wrote a book on English. So is Mary Norris, the “Comma Queen.” So they’re in competition, right? Not even close. Here’s some Twitter repartee between the two: Traditionally, two people in the same space are competitors. But that dynamic doesn’t apply with authors, for several reasons: A…
In Massachusetts, companies can enforce noncompete agreements to stop their workers from working for (or starting) a competitor. There ought to be a cost for companies to do that — and if the Massachusetts legislature passes the law it’s considering, there will be. Noncompetes in Mass. make it hard to change jobs As it stands now,…