That creaky label “women’s fiction” tends to conjure up images of novels about family, career or relationships. But men’s fiction?Esquire magazine will try to define it in June with a new push into publishing fiction, beginning with an e-book series called “Fiction for Men.”The first volume of the series includes new short stories by
Aaron Gwyn,
Luis Alberto Urrea and
Jess Walter, and the stories will be sold only in e-book format in collaboration with Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher, beginning June 12. (Another volume will follow every few months.)The cover of Esquire?s first men?s fiction e-book.It...
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Adobe's Nick Bogaty: Magazine and Book Industries Will Make a 'Successful Transition' From Print to Digital
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From Tab Times
TabTimes speaks to Nick Bogaty, director of business development for digital publishing at Adobe, about his perspective on print publishers moving into digital. What are book publishers looking for as they transition to digital formats in the trade book market? The trade e-book market of publishers like Random House, Harper-Collins and others over the past three years has just exploded. Three years ago or so, their e-book revenues were under 1%. Now there is a clear sightline to the majority of their revenue coming from e-books. That growth has been driven