Invisible Labor in the Publishing World
I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent Dear Author post on books as commercial objects and now I’m going to try something ambitious. I’m going to talk about Amazon and Hachette and Authors United....
View ArticleHere’s How a Trilogy Can Outsell a Septology on Amazon (and What it Means for...
Word came via The Mary Sue that, on Amazon, Susanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy has outsold Harry Potter both in print and digital. The article raises the question: how is it that a young trilogy can...
View Article“Hearts And Harbingers” Is Now On Amazon
My second novella, “Hearts and Harbingers,” is now available in the Amazon Kindle Store! I’ve just started buying Kindle books myself because it is ridiculously easy, and also because then I get a...
View ArticleSome Reactions to Amazon’s New Library Lending Deal
1. I admit, when I first heard that Amazon and OverDrive were collaborating to make Kindle ebooks available through libraries, my very first reaction was to download the Kindle app for iPhone so I...
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