During the book fair in March, we—Alison Grey and Jae—visited Leipzig, the largest city in Saxony, Germany. We quickly realized that Leipzig has more to offer than “just” the book fair—especially for people who are interested in literature and history. [...]
Finally, Beyond The Trail by Jae is now also available as paperback. If you loved Backwards to Oregon you’ll love Beyond The Trail. Here is what this books is about: Six short stories that give us glimpses into the [...]
Every year in March, Germany’s second-largest book fair takes place in Leipzig. This year, 2,063 exhibitors from 43 countries presented 100,000 books in a 69,000-square-meter area. In the last few years, the book fair had 163,000 visitors—and this year [...]
Wine is a sensory experience, and so is love, but a book involves our imagination, not so much our senses. Book trailers give us a chance to involve two of our senses, sight and sound, though. So it’s only [...]
From March 3 until March 9, Read an E-Book Week will be celebrated. Read an E-Book Week is an annual international celebration of e-books. This year, it will be celebrated for the eleventh time. For one week, publishers and [...]
Ylva Publishing is happy and proud to announce that Lois Cloarec Hart has joined our team. Lois is the author of Coming Home, Broken Faith, and Kicker’s Journey. Kicker’s Journey won several awards, including the “IPPY” Bronze Medal of [...]
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it refers to different technologies that publishers use to limit copying, sharing, and printing of e-books. The use of DRM is controversial. At first glance, DRM seems like a necessary thing to [...]
After the publication of Connected Hearts, Astrid Ohletz took the time to interview Joan Arling, who published her first story with Ylva Publishing. First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions. How [...]
Today we’re going to talk about Smashwords, an e-book store and distributor that is growing rapidly but is still relatively unknown in Germany. Smashwords is an e-book publishing and distribution platform based in the US and used mostly by [...]
In the course of a seminar I was able to visit the S. Fischer Verlage, one of the top five publishers in Germany. For two hours, the heads of each department explained how their operational procedures work. It was [...]