Publishing NewsAmazon / ARCs / bookselling / bookstores / digital lending / digital publishing / Libraries / Misogyny / Montlake / Simon & Schuster13 Comments
S&S Expands Library E-book Lending – Simon and Schuster will now be providing both front and backlist books to all libraries. This is a change over their previous policy, which was to allow only those libraries that were part of it’s “Buy it Now” program, where the borrower would have ... more >
Letters of OpinionARCs / authors-behaving-badly / blogging / genre critique / harassment / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Reader Reviews / stalking181 Comments
For better or worse, I have always been a fighter. For the people and principles I care about most, I will go to the mat, and the more unfair a situation becomes, the more energized to set things right I seem to become. I’m one of those cynical idealists who ... more >
Letters of OpinionARCs / contract / marketing / Publishers / reviews / Self-publishing66 Comments
As more self-publishers enter the market, they are competing with traditional publishers for blogger and social media coverage. Which means they are looking for bigger, better ways to get reviews and positive buzz. And apparently that is translating into pressure on some bloggers and readers who accept review copies, and who ... more >
Publishing NewsARCs / book reviewing / common carrier / daily deals / defamation / FCC / Google / ISP / net neutrality / Netflix / news / Scarlett Johansson / YouTube7 Comments
YouTube, following Netflix, is now publicly shaming internet providers for slow video – This is pretty interesting. YouTube, which is owned by Google, is posting these messages on videos that have streaming issues due to insufficient ISP speeds. Netflix had been doing something similar, and Verizon apparently threatened to sue ... more >