I love this interview with the great Sander Hicks… he has some good thoughts on business, marketing books and even gets a great plug in for our own Andy Laties’ book The Rebel Bookseller:
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On Sunday afternoon I received the latest edition of “Cantaranews,” an occasional newsletter report on the literary quarterly Cantaraville. In it, Cantara Christopher (the editor and owner of Cantarabooks and Cantaraville) published a statement about AuthorsBookshop.com entitled, “Caveat on AuthorsBookshop.com,” which contained false claims and mis-characterizations of my business.
It is my understanding that she [...]
Well, the age is upon us. It is time for novels to become more than they ever have been. Video, music, literature… it’s all hitting the blender and the blender is on “puree.” Hold on tight.
And here is a grand experiment – an attempt to dive right into the blender without regard [...]
Malcolm Gladwell had this to say in a recent New Yorker:
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At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, Amazon’s new electronic reader. “They [...]
Thanks to author and media commentator Paul Levinson for this cross-posting:
I voted for Barack Obama, don’t like Fox News, and think our health system is in need of long due reform. I thought the McCain campaign was one of the worst in years, bringing lowlights ranging from Sarah Palin to Joe the Plumber on to [...]
Ok, so I don’t have a Nook in hand yet. Unlike the high-flying super famous tech bloggers of which I am pretty envious, I don’t have gadget companies sending me stuff for free in hopes that I will give a 2 thumbs up to millions of faithful readers. And, I’m too poor to [...]
From Techcrunch:
Q: Has your opinion of e-readers changed?
A: I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing. But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device. You notice Amazon [...]
I just discovered (thanks to badbadbad) a website that serves as a great resource if you are an indie publisher, looking to get published by an indie publisher or looking for places to buy indie books. Honestly, I am suprised I had not found this site before now, as it is so right up [...]
From today’s Publishers Weekly:
Beginning in November, Amazon will begin offering free downloads of Kindle for PC, an e-reading application that will allow consumers to download Kindle edition e-books to any PC running Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista and read them on the PC. While the new application will allow Kindle owners to [...]
Being a reprint of an ABA headline from yesterday. Thanks to Fred Bubbers for the heads up.
The Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association today sent the following letter to the US Department of Justice requesting that it investigate practices by Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, and Target that it believes constitute illegal predatory pricing that is [...]
