Anyone want to tell me the quick-n-easy way to serve a site with a DMCA takedown notice?

Yeah, I'm completely thick and have no idea what I'm doing. Google searches provide lots of different directions. Anyone have preferred tactics?

So apparently someone over at Salon.com has been ragging on NaNoWriMo. It's becoming a bit of internet kerfuffle, with people defending the notion, and calling the writer of the Salon.com piece everything from elitist to killjoy ( Read more... )

Jim Hines has yet another excellent discussion of self-publishing on his blog.

Down in the comments, sarraceniaceae made an interesting observation, which I paraphrase as "the large comics companies in the USA [1] don't publish a very broad selection of comics ( Read more... )

The New York Times, late as usual to spot the trends that begin among geeks, has an article about grown ups reading kids' booksAt least the article in general comes down in favor of the situation. "The themes are serious and the discussions intense, but the books are fast-paced and fun ( Read more... )

Via Nathan Bransford's blog:

http://bookavore.tumblr.com/post/871178080/e-books-article-drinking-game

The September 2010 Indie Next List* has come out. Here it is ( Read more... )

Dear Crazy Paranoid People ( Read more... )

First, the disclaimer: this post will be based on my personal experience in the publishing industry, which is surely not universal. I worked for a mid-size trade publisher for 6 years, which was then bought by another mid-size publisher. I worked for that now-giant trade publisher for 8 years. And for the last two years I have worked for a mid- ( Read more... )

Dear Barnes and Noble ( Read more... )

Since everyone else is taking the piss out of Amazon's petulant response to the Great Macmillan Ebook Defiance, I may as well have some fun, too. My comments are in brackets.

Dear Customers:

Macmillan, one of the "big six" publishers, [as opposed to the "big one"* online bookseller] has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our ( Read more... )