“Anyone who thinks Amazon is in this to help authors is a fool”
Schlock writer Jim C. Hines, in a commentary on his website, notes, “A certain champion of self-publishing recently decried all of the ‘whiny bitches’ complaining about Amazon, and argued how Amazon… 1 / Read more »
Cover design from within the self-publishing bubble
Ever more options for the self-publisher: the new service GetBookCover allows self-published authors to buy an image, add their title and captions using an in-browser editor, and generate and download… 3 / Read more »
Apple announces new self-publishing software to howls of outrage
Another week, another entry into the jostling self-publishing market. Dominic Rushe and Jeevan Vasagar report in The Guardian that on January 19, Apple announced iBooks Author, a software application that… 2 / Read more »
McNally Jackson’s bestselling book is … a fee?
The New York bookseller McNally Jackson here posts a fascinating list of its bestselling titles of 2011, but there’s one big surprise: the bestselling thing in the store isn’t a… Read more »
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In a fundraising email sent to supporters yesterday, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered signed copies of her forthcoming memoir, Core of Conviction, My Story. A stampede ensued as bibliophiles, collectors,… 1 / Read more »
“These are dark days for the book business,” an article in The Economist tells us, citing the shrinking retail space available to book buyers and sellers with the demise of… Read more »
Lots of reports on the interwebs lately saying the same thing as this commentary from PC World: “Amazon’s Kindle e-reader store has a spam problem, and that isn’t good news… 4 / Read more »
“Vanity publishing houses in France have been accused of gross incompetence after apparently failing to recognise the manuscript of one of the greatest French novels — Madame Bovary by Gustave… Read more »