Backmatter: The Leanpub Publishing Industry Podcast

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Backmatter: The Leanpub Publishing Industry Podcast

In this podcast, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp interviews people in the publishing industry about issues relevant to anyone in the book business, including past and present-day controversies, current affairs, cutting-edge innovation, and what the future of books and the industry might look like.

  1. 09/07/2019

    A Note About the Backmatter Podcast

    We've decided to merge our Backmatter podcast interviews into our other podcast, Frontmatter, and going forward, we're going to publish all our in-depth publishing industry expert interviews there. For an explanation of why we're doing this (it's good news!), please listen to this short recording wherever you've found it, or read this post on our blog: https://medium.com/@leanpub/a-tale-of-two-podcasts-ddb442a91ddc. Many thanks to all our listeners and guests! We're looking forward to many more years of highly-researched, in-depth interviews with publishing industry experts and bestselling authors alike.

    2 min

  2. 01/17/2019

    Nathan Bransford, author of the writing guide How to Write a Novel and the middle grade Jacob Wonderbar novels

    Nathan Bransford is a freelance editor and media strategy consultant, an author, and a former literary agent for Curtis Brown. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Nathan about his background, studying English at Stanford during the dot com boom, work as a literary agent, getting published, and current issues facing the book publishing industry. This interview was recorded on January 9, 2019. This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

    54 min

  3. 12/15/2018

    David Vandagriff, from The Passive Voice Blog

    David Vandagriff is known by people in the publishing industry as Passive Guy, his persona on his popular publishing industry blog, The Passive Voice. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with David about his background, how he got into the law after studying speech and literature, his early innovations with desktop publishing in the preparation of legal documents, his work in advertising and how he got into the tech world, as well as recent issues in the book publishing industry generally. This interview was recorded on November 6, 2018.

    1h 17m

  4. 12/07/2018

    Orna Ross, award-winning author and poet, and founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors

    Orna Ross is an award-winning author and poet who founded the popular Alliance of Independent Authors, an influential professional association for self-published authors. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Orna about her background in publishing, the changing roles of literary agents, getting her rights back from a big publisher, the huge transformation in the self-publishing in the recent past, Self-Publishing 3.0, her Go Creative! series, and a number of other topics. This interview was recorded on October 30, 2018. The full audio for the interview is here. You can subscribe to the Backmatter podcast in iTunes or add the podcast URL directly. This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

    1h 4m

  5. 11/30/2018

    Rebecca Giblin, Australian Research Council Future Fellow

    In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Associate Professor Rebecca Giblin about her background, her e-lending and Author's Interest projects, DRM and creator compensation, the potential role unfair competition law could play in regulating dominant companies, and author compensation in relation the economics of library ebook lending and the book industry generally. This interview was recorded on September 18, 2018. The full audio for the interview is here. You can subscribe to the Backmatter podcast in iTunes or add the podcast URL directly. This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

    52 min

  6. 10/12/2018

    Bill Kasdorf, Publishing Technology Partners

    Bill Kasdorf is a partner at the consultancy Publishing Technology Partners, where he provides guidance and insight regarding the publishing industry. He has worked with many well-known companies and institutions, from the scholarly press at Harvard, to the World Bank and the British Library, amongst many others. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Bill about his background and how he got interested in the world of books, the importance of standards and interoperability when it comes to accessibility, how standardization fuels innovation, changes to the publishing industry in the past decades, from scholarly to trade publishing, and how the EPUB format is managed, and other topics. This interview was recorded on September 18, 2018. The full audio for the interview is here. You can subscribe to the Backmatter podcast in iTunes or add the podcast URL directly. This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

    1h 21m

  7. 08/30/2018

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch, New York Times Bestselling & Hugo Award-Winning Author

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a bestselling and award-winning author who also writes a very popular blog on the business side of book publishing, which is an invaluable resource for authors in all genres. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Kristine about her background as a writer, journalism and politics in the US, the impact of war on the mail-order book business in the US in the early 1990s, the recent scandal involving alleged theft of revenue at a prominent New York-based agency, why Kris doesn't chase online bookstore algorithms, and a number of issues facing authors of all kinds, including those who are self-published and those who are published conventionally. This interview was recorded on August 16, 2018.

    1h 8m

  8. 07/28/2018

    Carla King, Founder of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Series

    Carla King is an author and founder of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp series. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Carla about her background as a writer, how she got into motorcycles and travelling solo, the impact of 9/11 on travel writing and publishing in the United States, why every self-published author should set up their own company, and more. This interview was recorded on May 24, 2018. The full audio for the interview is here. You can subscribe to the Backmatter podcast in iTunes or add the podcast URL directly. This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.

    56 min
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In this podcast, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp interviews people in the publishing industry about issues relevant to anyone in the book business, including past and present-day controversies, current affairs, cutting-edge innovation, and what the future of books and the industry might look like.

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