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Crowdfunding Your Book: Proven Strategies for Independent Authors
For independent authors, publishing a book often involves significant upfront costs—from editing and cover design to printing and marketing. In the traditional publishing model, a large or even mid-sized publisher would absorb many of these expenses, but when a...
Book Review: The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors by Laura Portwood-Stacer
How to get started on getting started. Many scholars—whether newbies or old-hands with writer’s block—easily get stuck when the time comes to present their book pitch to scholarly publishers. Writing eloquently to make a good case for a book pitch is already...
What’s Old Is New Again: The Rise of the Backlist in Publishing
For much of publishing history, success was defined by the “frontlist”—the shiny parade of new releases that arrived each season with marketing fanfare and bestseller ambitions. Backlist books—titles published more than a year or two ago—were often treated like...
Scholarly Publishing in 2026: Trends, Technology, and Growth
As we enter the fifth month of 2026, now feels like a good time to consider what we can expect to see in scholarly publishing throughout the remainder of the year. To begin making predictions for a new year, it is always helpful to take a minute and reflect...
Indie Authors and Traditional Publishers: How to Collaborate for Bigger Reach
The number of self-published books with ISBNs has more than doubled over the past decade, and approximately one-third of all books sold in the US are self-published. Additionally, indie authors are gaining recognition, and some are gaining true fame with this...
The Pros and Cons of Preprints: Speed, Scrutiny, and the Shape of Modern Research
In the past, scientific publishing moved at the pace of glaciers—deliberate, weighty, and often frustratingly slow. And there was good reason for this. Peer review is an important part of scientific publishing that is necessary to weed out research that is not...
Plagiarism Screening 101: A Guide for Authors
Plagiarism, according to Oxford Languages, is “the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own”. We might all remember the grueling days of high school English class, learning about in-text citations and the importance of...
Stories Behind the Screen: Essential Hollywood Summer Reads
Movies seasons come and go, but great books about movies never leave readers! Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears By Michael Schulman It was the best of movies, it was the worst of fighting about movies, it was the cinema of wisdom, it was...
Questions Authors Should Ask Themselves Before Using AI for Alt Text
In the writing, editing, and publishing industry, AI is here to stay, across all aspects of the business. And alt text—that is, a brief text description designed to replace an image in the electronic version of an article—isn’t going anywhere either. AI is a...
Understanding Alt Text: Emerging Challenges and Best‑Practice Guidelines (Part II)
One of the biggest hot topics in publishing right now is the use of alt text—that is, brief descriptions of an image in an electronic article. The first installment of this two-part series discusses the potential benefits that come with the use of alt text. These...
