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NBCC Posts Its Ethics in Reviewing Survey

National Book Critics Circle posted a summarization of the results of its Ethics in Book Reviewing survey. It’s okay to ignore self published authors and you shouldn’t review a book without reading the whole thing. There’s lots of other stuff, like whether it is more appropriate to eat m&m’s or hershey kisses while reviewing and whether you have to wear pants when you type since no one can see you, so go ahead and read the rest of the summarization.

(Yes, I made the latter two survey results up.)

All The News That Is Fit To Print. For the Rest, There Are Blogs

There has been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in the publishing realm over the downsizing or wholesale elimination of newspaper print review sections due to lack of advertising dollars. Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Book Review section was the latest casualty. AJC’s decision to terminate Book editor, Teresa Weaver, started a print and blogging furor. A hue and cry was raised and some even went to picket the AJC.

The fact is that the demise of print reviews is meaningless to me. The Atlanta Journal Constitution never reviewed books that interested me. Ditto for the LA Times (books are now merged with opinion section). The same for the San Francisco Chronicle (section cut from 6 to 4 pages).

When the LA Times re-purposed its book review section, it also launched a website aimed at increasing book coverage. I was heartened to hear that it …

REVIEW: Ebook Weekly: Changeling Press, LLC Review

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Changeling Press, LLC opened its edoors in 2004. It publishes erotic short stories and novellas. It also has an Ezine (A Cheeky Changeling) with information, contests and giveaways, and two yahoo groups (one for a newsletter and one for a reader’s loop).
There is a link to an author information page which has bios and further links to individual author pages.
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