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Broken Keys Publishing & Press


The Wrong Business Model?
I did a little searching, and meandering, and researching through several local Ottawa and City literary websites, compiling a list of Ottawa-based publishers. (I excluded online publishers, online magazines, online journals, electronic formatted publications, (any "publisher" that had "no skin in the game"), 'publishing companies' that exclusively publish a single author's work (self-published indie-authors under a title than their own name), and scientific, medical, and uni

Broken Keys Publishing
Sep 95 min read


The Wild West of Publishing
We are witnessing the evolution of this entire market, from writing, printing, publishing, to retail. The Wild West of American history,...

Broken Keys Publishing
Feb 111 min read


A Rippling Landscape: The End of the E-book?
The German retailer Libri GmbH ("Libri"), also known as Weltbild GmbH & Co. KG, or more commonly Tolino, has filed for insolvency. Tolino...
Michel Weatherall
Jun 25, 20243 min read


The Future of Publishing & the Writing on the Wall
This past Monday (November 20th, 2023), Draft-2-Digital announced that they broke the million book mark! (That's titles, not books or...
Michel Weatherall
Nov 23, 20233 min read


Times are a Changin'
Simon & Schuster is the 4th largest of the American “Big Five” publishing companies (which include HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group...
Michel Weatherall
Aug 13, 20232 min read
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