Month: February 2010
I’ve already commented about this Huffington Post article on my Facebook page, but I’ll reiterate here: Uh . . . YEAH. Helllooooo, editors are the people who find you the books you’re hot to read. As a writer, I can…
Dean Wesley Smith has a great article up on one of the traps a bunch of writers fall into: believing that, once they’d made a couple of sales, they know everything they need to know to keep selling. Uh ….
I’ve gotten a couple comments from folks who say that the RSS feed doesn’t work in the Google Chrome Browser. My handy-dandy, trusty webmaster has looked into this–and indeed, this is an issue, though no one is sure why. According…
Douglas Preston on consumers, entitlement and e-books: “The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,” said Douglas Preston, whose novel “Impact” reached as high as No. 4 on The New York Times’s hardcover fiction best-seller list earlier…
So I’ve been thinking a lot about what words are worth, considering all the brouhaha lately. Lurk on a bunch of forums and blogs, and everyone’s been weighing in on their buying habits, how much they’re willing to pay, whether…
http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/the-right-battle.html On the other hand, PW notes: Despite reports that the two parties were discussing ways to restore Macmillan’s buy buttons yesterday, customers were still unable to buy Macmillan titles directly from the Amazon site, including Winter Garden, the just…
More on the Amazon and Macmillan dust-up. Go, Macmillan! And Scott Westerfeld had a fabulous analysis of the whole deal on his blog, as does Tobias “Tobe” Buckell (and I love reading how he thinks about this; I agree a…
