Apr 29 2013
Amazon is going to do to enterprise cloud companies exactly what it did to book stores – I was contacted by a company a while back offering cloud based storage at costs that seemed to good to be true. I asked them how they were doing this and they replied Amazon Cloud storage. I really(…)
Apr 26 2013
I came across this picture and this video while browsing Reddit. Rajesh Kumar Sharma founded a free school in the slums of India. Their schoolroom is a space under a bridge. Their blackboards are concrete walls. First world problems are anything that doesn’t include having to gain an education under a bridge in a(…)
Apr 25 2013
This is just for fun and because Jayne sent it to me. Internet sales tax: who’s for it, who’s against & what comes next – An Internet sales tax is about to pass the Senate and may do so as early as the end of this week. It may surprise you that Amazon is a(…)
Apr 24 2013
Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals – Publishers Marketplace quietly added a new category to its Deals listing: New Adult. The change did not go unnoticed and some people (agents in some cases I guess) reacted very unhappily, not unlike some readers here at Dear Author. Apparently New Adult must have killed someone’s parents (historical mama(…)
Apr 23 2013
2013 Romance Cover Trends – Stairs, Dresses and Fences…Oh My! Linnae at the Cover Cafe points out a few trends from stairways to dresses to fences. The big big big dress that looks like it is spawning five other dresses has been around for a while. I’m not in love with it. Cover Cafe How(…)
Apr 22 2013
E.L. Konigsburg, 1930–2013 – Beloved middle grade author, E.L. Konisburg passed away on Friday, April 19. Konsiburg is most famous for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The View from Saturday. PW has a nice obituary. Publishers Weekly How to Make Money on Your Lunch Break – Today is a very(…)
Apr 19 2013
Given that news makes you depressed, I thought I would share two videos with you that I thought were particularly inspiring. The first was recorded last night, I believe, and is the beginning of the Boston Bruins game. The singer begins the national anthem but the crowd begins to sing along and when they do,(…)
Apr 18 2013
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier – The Guardian had an article about how news is bad for you because it is irrelevant, misleading and actually bad for your body. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid (cortisol). This deregulates your immune system and(…)
Apr 17 2013
Romancing the Plaza (Kansas City, MO) Book Signing – Self published or e published authors not part of the official RT signing can be found at the KC Marriott Country Club Plaza on May 4, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Authors can sign up by paying for a table. Readers can attend for(…)
Apr 16 2013
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Blood Donations | American Red Cross – You have probably already heard but more than one explosion occurred in Boston yesterday, two near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, resulting in numerous injuries and casualties. One thing that people can do in circumstances like these is to donate blood. This(…)
Apr 15 2013
Self-Publishing Grabs Huge Market Share From Traditional Publishers – David Gaughran speculates that based on the numbers provided by Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble, that 25% of e-books purchased in the US are produced by self published authors. What we don’t know at this point is the unit sales versus dollar amounts. The average(…)
Apr 12 2013
Waterstones founder to launch Spotify-like service for books in 2013 – Waterstones is launching a digital service that SlashGear calls Spotify-like but instead seems like a modern day version of the lending library, only the content will be limited to short stories and serialized content. The program will be called “Read Petite” and the “service(…)
Apr 11 2013
Delete This When You’re Done: Snapchat and the Power of Deletion – This New Yorker article by Matt Buchanan on the future of privacy is thought provoking. With things like Google Glasses and Memoto that take videos and photos constantly of all your interactions (without the express permission of those whom you are recording), privacy(…)
Apr 10 2013
NAA’s New Revenue Report: Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Publishers – This report on news consumption is pretty interesting although not exactly fiction book publishing related. Pay walls are becoming increasingly more popular because they are profitable. “Revenue from digital/print circulation rose nearly five fold (499%) from 2011.” But only 11% of(…)
Apr 9 2013
One on One: Jason Merkoski and the View of E-Books From the Inside – I didn’t really find this interview all that illuminating and it didn’t pique my interest in reading the book Jason Merkoski is publishing through Sourcebooks about his experience at Amazon. I suspect anything interesting is prohibited by some employment non disclosure(…)
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