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DA Industry News
November 10, 2011

Thursday Midday Links: Stanza Not Dead, Reviewer Sued for Defamation, Amazon Acquires TTS Firm

JanePublishing NewsBarry Eisler / book business / defamation / lawsuits / Rape / Reviewers / self-published / Smashwords67 Comments

In the UK, a self published author is suing a reviewer for panning his book. Chris McGrath, an online entrepreneur from Milton Keynes, who wrote and self-published a little-known book entitled The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, has launched libel proceedings against Vaughan Jones, ... more >

DA Industry News
May 26, 2011

Thursday Midday Links: Open Letter to Loretta Chase

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Amazon Montlake / Barry Eisler / bundling / buying habits / Google / Literary Agents / Loretta-Chase / self-published74 Comments

Dear Ms. Chase: I don’t have your email address but I had to write you to comment on a note a fan made on your behalf on the Smart Bitches site.  You see, your book Captives of the Night(kind of a sequel to the Lord of Scoundrels) caught the attention ... more >

March 22, 2011

Tuesday Midday Links: Self publishing stock rises and so does traditional publishing

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Apple / Barnes & Noble / Barry Eisler / digital publishing / homosexuality / lawsuits38 Comments

Yesterday was a study in opposites.   Barry Eisler, a hardcover author of the John Rain series, broke the news that he had turned down a $500,000 offer for two books from St. Martin’s Press and is going to self publish his next Rain book.   Eisler is good friends with Joe ... more >

January 19, 2010

GUEST REVIEW: Fault Line by Barry Eisler

Guest ReviewerB+ ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Barry Eisler / Military / thriller6 Comments

Dear Mr. Eisler, I was literally in the middle of writing this review when the news broke on Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear physics professor was killed by a bomb left outside his home in Tehran. Now I know that the circumstances of this man’s murder have nothing in common ... more >

December 29, 2009

GUEST REVIEW: Fault Line by Barry Eisler

Guest ReviewerA- ReviewsAssassin / Barry Eisler / California / Carolyn Jewel / featured / government / intellectual property / Military / Review / thriller9 Comments

Dear Mr. Eisler: Fault Line was the first book of yours that I’d read. I’ve since read more, by the way. In the past, I have worked at Intellectual Property law firms as well as in the legal department of a Bio-Tech firm, so I am intimate with the portion ... more >

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