In case there are folks who don't know, Amazon has pulled from their virtual shelves all books published by Macmillan, including the entire Tor front and backlists as a result of a dispute over pricing. This seems to me to be part and parcel of things like the Google Settlement and Amazon's 1984 fiasco, a technology company using their tech to ( Read more... )

Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews, two venerable chronicles of the newspaper and book publishing industries, are closing as their owner, Nielsen Business Media, gets out of the trade publication business.Wow. I heard last week that some major publishing news was coming before the end of the year. Wonder if this is said news, or if there's more ( Read more... )

Here I was all ready to post my Norwescon report when I learned about Amazon.com's bone-headed behavior. In case you're one of the .1 percent who doesn't obsessively read the Web, Amazon has decided that "adult" titles will have their rankings pulled, removing these titles from search results. How it actually works is that books with any gay, ( Read more... )

On an e-mail list to which we both subscribe, puppetmaker40 pointed out this press release from AV Paranormal Publishing, a unique piece of fiction asserting that its for-profit publication of a "Twilight" fanfic novel (or, as they put it, a "tribute" novel) called "Russet Noon" is legal because:

When fictional characters become such an intricate part of the ( Read more... )

The weekendLooked at cars this weekend. Must make a final decision about what to buy and then do the deed before the week is out. The deadline is an artificial one, created by nothing but my own desire to have done with it. I just want it to be over and to move on ( Read more... )