There’s so much going on in the industry right now with authors going from electronic self-publishing to traditional publishers (i.e. Amanda Hocking and St. Martin’s), authors leaving traditional publishing to self-publish (i.e. Barry Eisler) and some going to new publishing ventures like Amazon.com’s Montlake imprint (i.e. Connie Brockway).  I’ve ( Read more... )

In honor of Presidents' Day (and the fact that I actually have it off), I'm posting one of my SFWA Bulletin articles, as I've promised to do once their exclusivity period is up.  Since it was done a year ago, it's a little dated.  (For instance, e-books now form more like 20% of total book sales.)  However, discussions of DRM and pricing are still ( Read more... )

Panelists:

·         Digital Right Attorney (Eric Brown, FWRV)

·         Traditional publisher (Rick Joyce, Perseus Books)

·         App developer (Charlie Stack, Sideways)

·         Author (Seymour Simon, “Science Fun To Go”)

Write-up:

For those who follow me on Twitter, I promised to post what I learned on the joint Authors Guild/ ( Read more... )

From GalleyCat: "eReader Price Wars Have Commenced."  If you've been waiting to buy, now's the time!

First, more Publish America antics.  Read this.  And this.  Shameless.

Second, very good article in The New Yorker on both sides of the e-book pricing debate.

Third, amusing article from CNN about President George Washington and his overdue library books!

Fourth, this would be where the personal musings part of the blog comes in.  My son and I made ( Read more... )

Wow, I didn't have time to do more than comment on a few blogs and post a few tweets before the situation with Amazon and Macmillan (hopefully) resolved.  If you stepped away from your computer over the weekend, you might have missed it, but Shelf Awareness has an excellent wrap-up here.

More pithiness on the subject from my client Doranna Durgin, ( Read more... )

I’ve seen a disturbing trend lately of headlines like “Can Any Device Save Publishing?” and the like. I started this year with “Still Not Dead” posts about the industry (inspired by Rachel Caine’s brilliant still not dead posts when she was going through something a whole lot more serious - cancer). I’m going to finish the year the same way.

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E-book price wars.

More on the e-book price wars here and here.

Amazon tries to talk it out with agents.

Authors and their advocates have been cursed with living in interesting times.  The e-book distributors want to control pricing, which means that major publishers have started looking to net receipts rather than retail price on which to base ( Read more... )

Okay, back to business.  Here's a link to Deidre Knight's well-reasoned post about e-publishing and RWA's stance.

Also, I'll be a guest at the June Author Salon tomorrow night on Second Life at 9 p.m. eastern.  I'm a little nervous, never having done this before, but I'm hoping to play around with my avatar tonight to make sure I know what I'm doing ( Read more... )

Harlequin Books hits 60 this year and celebrates with an upswing in earnings (yes in the midst of all the gloom and doom) and free e-books.  Check out the PW article or click here for your free download!

In the category of awesome award news, Rosemary Clement-Moore's excellent novel HELL WEEK won the YA category of the Galye Wilson Award of ( Read more... )