Sue Collier | December 4, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Publishers Weekly: Black Friday Weekend Proves A Dickensian Start to Holidays This year’s holiday selling season at independent bookstores hews closely to the opening of Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Some [...]
Sue Collier | November 28, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From The Register: Penguin pulls its e-books off library shelves A new “security concern” has forced the British book publisher Penguin to stop making electronic editions of its new books available to American libraries. Penguin has also banned the libraries from loaning existing Penguin e-books [...]
Sue Collier | November 20, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Media Bistro: Quentin Rowan Explains Why He Plagiarized Quentin Rowan, the novelist who wrote under the pen name Q.R. Markham, explained why he plagiarized numerous spy novels for his debut book… From Mystery Writing is Murder: 9 Pieces of Bad Writing Advice it’s Best [...]
Sue Collier | November 14, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From PC World: Amazon’s Prime Lending Library Collection Now Viewable Online Amazon is tempting Kindle owners to sign up for its Prime service with free e-books, and if you are wondering if there are any good ones to read you can now peruse a list [...]
Sue Collier | November 7, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Media Bistro: Author Finds Flaws In Kindle Auto Pricing Author James Crawford has found some flaws in using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. After noticing a huge spike in downloads over night for his novel Blood Soaked & Contagious, he went to see what [...]
Sue Collier | November 1, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From The Book Seller: OFT gives go-ahead for Amazon/TBD merger The Office of Fair Trading has cleared Amazon to take over The Book Depository, ruling the merger would not lead to a lessening of competition within the UK book industry… From Publishers Weekly: U.S. Copyright [...]
Sue Collier | October 24, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Publetariat: There’s Something Odd About Self-Publishing Books Here’s something that’s mystified me for a long time: Most books about self-publishing look a lot worse than they ought to. I’ve often said that it doesn’t cost any more to produce a good-looking book than it [...]
Sue Collier | October 16, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Jane Friedman: The Evolving Model of the Entrepreneurial Novelist It’s pleasure to bring you this insightful Q&A with writer Sean Platt. As his own website states, Sean Platt writes it all. He writes copy, websites, books, and has most recently developed a new epic thriller [...]
Sue Collier | October 9, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Whatever: Writer Beware at “The Write Agenda” Many of you are aware of Writer Beware, the fantastic resource spearheaded by Victoria Strauss and Ann Crispin (and supported by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, among other groups), which researches, documents and informs [...]
Sue Collier | October 2, 2011
Here’s some of the latest in industry news and views: From Publisher’s Lunch: Palin Accuses McGinniss of Defamation and “May” File Claim Sarah Palin’s Anchorage attorney has written to Crown, saying that Joe McGinniss’s book THE ROGUE “defamed” the Palins and that both the publisher and author “clearly knew the statements were false [and] admitted [...]
