Barnes & Noble no more?

It would seem that Barnes & Noble has gone up for sale. This is going to be interesting to watch. Personally, I have a feeling the sale is going to…

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Selling Yourself

The rise of the author-entrepreneur is a trend I've been following closely. Not only does it have an immediate bearing on the industry as a whole, but it has a…

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Fair pricing

The fair pricing debate is cropping up again. According to the author of that post, e-books should be priced very low indeed, at 99c to $2.99, because the overhead is…

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Credit where credit’s due

In reading through the open letter on piracy I linked in my last post, I came across yet another reference to Richard Nash and Cursor, in which he's cited as…

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Speaking of piracy…

Speaking of piracy, I was just clued in to this great open letter to Scott Turow of the Author's Guild, by Brian O'Leary. It says everything we've been trying to…

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Piracy and the Internet

Ahh, piracy. Nothing gets a publisher's hackles up like a good discussion of piracy - and I've been seeing a lot of them around lately. A major theme of the…

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Sea Changes

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: There's nothing new under the sun. Okay, that's not entirely true. There's plenty out there that's new, and exciting, and different.…

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What’s in a length?

I do love Charlie Stross. And I love reading his takes on the publishing industry and the future of the book. His CMAP series should be required reading. In fact,…

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