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Publishers Weekly Ignores The Real Scandal At LA Times Festival of Books
Publishers Weekly whipped up a storm on Wednesday with news of a deal between Amazon and the LA Times Festival of Books, resulting in calls for the publishing community to boycott the event. But Publishers Weekly is ignoring the real … Continue reading
Fake Controversy Alert: Hitler’s Mein Kampf Was Not A Digital Bestseller
A juicy story broke last week, the kind that makes savvy sub-editors salivate over potential Twitter-bait headlines. It had been discovered that Hitler’s pre-war memoir Mein Kampf was a digital bestseller, leading to a global bout of media hand-wringing and pontificating. … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, bestseller, charts, chris faraone, controversy, fake, hitler, media, mein kampf, vocativ
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Amazon Makes Life Easier For Authors of Historical & Literary Fiction
There are lots of reasons why self-publishing success stories tend to concentrate around writers of “genre” fiction, but it’s a mistake to assume that success is impossible if you write literary fiction or historical fiction (which tends to get lumped … Continue reading
Kobo Cull Self-Published Titles In Knee-jerk Response To Tabloid Clickbait
A media firestorm erupted in the UK on Sunday after a tabloid story about WH Smith selling “filth” alongside books aimed at children, which has resulted in Kobo culling huge numbers of self-published titles – most of which have no … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, banning books, censorship, daily mail, erotica, kobo, wh smith, whitcoulls
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The Hilarious Hypocrisy of Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen’s Guardian article – What’s Wrong With The Modern World – was such a monumental act of self-parody that I was surprised it wasn’t published in The Onion. Even his failures (to have sex with an “unbelievably pretty girl” … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, bezos, cloud shouting, franzen, jonathan franzen, self-publishing, twitter
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Self-Publishing Grabs Huge Market Share From Traditional Publishers
Barnes & Noble re-launched PubIt! this week as Nook Press, a largely superficial makeover which failed to address some fundamental problems, like restricting access to US self-publishers only, and introduced new howler: updating existing titles causes the loss of all … Continue reading
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Tagged #lbf13, amazon, createspace, kdp, kindle indie store, kobo, london book fair, market share, self-publishing, traditional publishers
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Why Amazon’s Purchase of Goodreads Is A Good Thing
The doom-mongers have been running wild on Twitter with the news that Amazon is to acquire Goodreads. Much of that nonsense is typical (hysterical) Amazon bashing, or reflexive defense of the status quo. I’m not going to deal with the … Continue reading
From Pizza Hut To Easy Street: The David Dalglish Story
Fantasy author David Dalglish is a big name in the self-publishing world, but he’s on the cusp of something even bigger. His path wasn’t easy. When David uploaded his first book, way back in February 2010, he was working in Pizza … Continue reading
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Tagged 47 north, agency agreement, agency contract, amazon, dance of blades, david dalglish, half-orcs, orbit, self-publishing success, shadowdance
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