Dec 26 2012
Did you get a tablet for Christmas? If so, here are a few posts that give you an idea what you should load onto your tablet: Geekwire’s advice for the new Surface. Pocket-lint: The first five iPad mini apps. DailyBeast: A list for every tablet owner from the iPad to the Surface to the Android(…)
Oct 31 2012
Disaster Relief, CPR Certification, Donate Blood – Hurricane Sandy has devastated communities from Haiti (that had not yet recovered from the earthquake) to Canada, but much of its devastation was on the eastern seaboard. The RedCross is asking for monetary donations and has indicated that its blood bank is low. You can text the word(…)
Sep 18 2012
Gartner predicts raft of fake online reviews by 2014 — Tech News and Analysis – One research company suggests that the negative reviews on social media sites will drive companies to hire reputation defenders to put pressure on reviews to be removed or engage in other activities to enhance positive reviews over negative ones. Perhaps(…)
Sep 12 2012
Kobo has released a new suite of reading devices although none of them are getting major play. These devices are all noted as “coming soon”, but the Kobo Arc is targeted for a mid November release. This has a nice comparison between the Fire and the Arc. Kobo Mini ($79) 5″ E Ink touchscreen; Vizplex(…)
Sep 4 2012
Despite the regularity and ubiquity with which free speech is invoked in online discussions, it is rarely relevant in the way it is used, as either sword or shield. In the broadest possible sense, our online discussions (at least in the United States) are reflective of the “marketplace of ideas” theory of free speech, but(…)
Aug 27 2012
Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves – NYTimes.com – This NYTimes article simply confirms what we know is true. Buying reviews is worthwhile for authors. It’s not ethical, but it works. Jason Rutherford set up a business to sell reviews. At one point he was making $28,000 a month. He would(…)
Aug 2 2012
The Straight Dope: Who decided women should shave their legs and underarms? – “The gist of the article is that U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of what Hope calls the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American(…)
Jul 25 2012
Amazing photos 2012 Our world is amazing Imgur Harrogate / tossergate – “Because nowhere in Stephen’s blogpost does he mention the moment on the panel that really caused the audience to gasp: his casual and unashamed admission that he uses sock puppet accounts to promote his work – creating fake online personas to engage with(…)
Jul 18 2012
Let me set this up for you. Michelle Gorman apparently sent a review request to ChicklitGirls, a website that offers reviews of various genres. They claim good Christian values and promise to NOT give a negative review to any author. Further, they claim over 2.5 million views for their reviews from their site and via(…)
Apr 25 2012
A few weeks ago, I stumbled onto Fiverr, a place where you can buy reviews at Amazon and twitter followers and a whole host of things. An author offered to test if out for me and sent me an account to post on Dear Author. Here it is: “For $5, I’ll leave a five-star review(…)
Aug 22 2011
Sandra Hyatt passed away last weekend during the New Zealand Romance Writer’s conference. From all accounts, Hyatt took ill unexpectedly and passed away within days. Hyatt wrote for Harlequin Desire. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Hyatt family. ***** Jude Deveraux has been taken in by fraudsters to the tune of $20 million. From(…)
Sep 2 2009
So Rat has a problem with paid reviews. No, wait, he has a problem with a blogger receiving any kind of renumeration, which for him includes a free book. His argument raises all sorts of issues which I thought I would lay out in a blog post. First, though, let me be up front about(…)
May 15 2008
We review here for free, but it’s not much different if you review for a trade magazine like Publishers Weekly. With traditional media hurting financially, PW has responded one way by reducing the amount of money that reviewers will be paid for each review to $25.00. Obviously reviewing is done by those who love reading(…)
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