Here’s an author who is keenly aware of her own community of booksellers, future writers, and readers.

An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazon.com

Great bargains, you will think. In the short run. How will this trend affect Hawaii publishers and authors? And Hawaii readers? It will probably eventually drive them to ebooks, because if this is a permanent trend, it will make publishing and bookselling of regular books in Hawaii especially difficult.

“According to my math, I'd be making more money if my books were out of print, and I had my rights back.”

My last post was a Wish List of novelists I’d like to hear in person Here’s a list of nonfiction writers I’d like to see, either at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, or in a subscription series in Hawaii.

Hawaii should have a subscription series of talks by leading national authors.

Disintermediation: the elimination of intermediaries in the supply chain, or cutting out the middlemen.

The Great Recession has radically accelerated digital publishing. Smashwords.com is a game changer.

...the program we present at HBMF is a kind of living anthology, and this thought led naturally to conceiving our program as a continual update of the Hawaiian Renaissance. In other words, our program would be dedicated to presenting the best of classic Hawaiian culture along with the best and most thriving Hawaiian culture today.