Publishing Newsanonymity / Arab-American Book Award / authors / book art / Man Booker Prize / marketing / publicity1 Comments
“Promotion is expensive”: Elena Ferrante on anonymity – Last year I posted a news link to an interview with Elena Ferrante, in which she talked about her refusal to do promotional work for her own books. This 1991 letter, published in the London Review of Books expounds on that position, as ... more >
Publishing Newsauthors / book-covers / children's lit / diversity / Ebooks / Goodreads / Kindle / Oyster / Self-publishing / subscription17 Comments
E-Book Startup Oyster Hires Jeannie Mun As Its First CFO – Jeannie Mun, formerly of MediaMath and Operative, is now CFO of Oyster, which demonstrates the seriousness with which the company is approaching a successful model for the subscription ebook service. That Barry McCarthy, CFO of Netflix, is also going ... more >
Publishing Newsauthors / earnings / feminism / Fifty Shades / Gamergate / genre / Misogyny / publishing / Romance / Wikipedia11 Comments
Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate – This story was originally published in a media outlet I refuse to link to in the DA news anymore, but Gawker and several other sites have the basic facts (which, of course, are disputed in comments, especially at Pando ... more >
Letters of Opinionauthors / commercial speech / community / harassment / power / readers / risk / stalking125 Comments
I had originally intended to write a follow-up post to last week’s piece on feminism and the Romance genre, but the enormous Kickstarter debate kicked me back to a post on authors and power I had intended to write some months back after the Kathleen Hale incident. During that debate, ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / authors / Comics / conference / David Bowie / Hachette / Jeff Bezos / museum / Superhero / technology18 Comments
A Writerly Chill at Jeff Bezos’ Fire – There’s some real crap in this article (the swat at Ayelet Waldman is particularly sexist and offensive), but I also thought it was worth posting, if you haven’t already seen it, because it sheds some light on a little of the relationships ... more >
Publishing NewsADE / authors / Book Reviews / epub / fiverr / Free Speech / History / Race / reddit / slavery14 Comments
Reddit at a crossroads: The inevitable clash between free speech and a desire for funding – An interesting piece on the current dilemma facing Reddit, a comment deeply committed to free speech, but commercially dependent on venture capital funding, which can be notoriously demanding in its conditions for continued support. ... more >