Jun 21 2011
RWA is coming up and even though I have been degowned (as opposed to defrocked) I am going to meet up with editors, authors, publicists, and other bloggers and readers. As part of the TBR newsletter, I’ve offered some tips on packing. I’m a big believer in carry on only but this year will be(…)
Jun 15 2011
As I mentioned previously, I had emailed Hachette about these concerns Ms. Carriger had posted about the underreporting of ebook royalties and how that may be harming authors. This was causing readers to think that they shouldn’t buy digital. I received the following response (reposted with permission): Dear Jane Neil has passed on your email(…)
Aug 26 2010
Publishers Weekly is offering the chance at getting a review in a new issue called PW Select. The PW Select is a self publishing supplement to be released in December. It will cost $149 to get listed although if you are a subscriber, you get one listing for free. Out of the listings, PW will(…)
Jun 28 2010
Because sleep is for the dead, I spent some time in the past few weeks compiling a list of upcoming books. I hope you find this helpful. I have more to add (see the prefatory note on the upcoming books page). ***** In the UK, authors receive a royalty every time someone checks their book(…)
Apr 3 2008
The growing used book market in Japan has generated alot of complaints from organizations such s the Copyright Network for Comic Authors in the 21st Century. Readers of DA know that the only way an author makes money is off the sale of a new book. Used books, promotional copies, and the like don’t generate(…)
Mar 14 2008
If I was an author, I would probably want to get my hands on this arbitration decision1. Regnery was in litigation with author Richard Miniter. He had a two book contract with Regnery and delivered a book called Disinformation. Regnery believed that the book “did not live up to [Miniter's] two book contract”. Instead, Miniter(…)
Sep 4 2007
It used to be that you could go to Amazon and see how many books were left in stock. I always thought this was a ploy to get the consumer to buy right away instead of waiting but apparently its a bit of information that only writers used to evaluate sales. Amazon has recently stopped(…)
May 22 2007
Sometimes I’ll blog about information that seems to be directed straight at writers and I wonder if some readers think to themselves, but this isn’t for us. It doesn’t affect us. Aren’t you guys a readers’ blog? We are, but sometimes industry changes have a great affect on we, the readers. Simon & Schuster’s announcement(…)
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