On design and professionalism
A friend just passed along this post of Tobias Buckell's about the sale of Realms of Fantasy magazine to Damnation Press. His comment? "I thought, how bad could it be?…
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November 10, 2010
Barnes & Noble no more?
It would seem that Barnes & Noble has gone up for sale. This is going to be interesting to watch. Personally, I have a feeling the sale is going to…
August 4, 2010
Selling Yourself
The rise of the author-entrepreneur is a trend I've been following closely. Not only does it have an immediate bearing on the industry as a whole, but it has a…
July 2, 2010
Fair pricing
The fair pricing debate is cropping up again. According to the author of that post, e-books should be priced very low indeed, at 99c to $2.99, because the overhead is…
June 30, 2010
Credit where credit’s due
In reading through the open letter on piracy I linked in my last post, I came across yet another reference to Richard Nash and Cursor, in which he's cited as…
June 7, 2010
Speaking of piracy…
Speaking of piracy, I was just clued in to this great open letter to Scott Turow of the Author's Guild, by Brian O'Leary. It says everything we've been trying to…
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June 7, 2010
Piracy and the Internet
Ahh, piracy. Nothing gets a publisher's hackles up like a good discussion of piracy - and I've been seeing a lot of them around lately. A major theme of the…
June 4, 2010
Sea Changes
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: There's nothing new under the sun. Okay, that's not entirely true. There's plenty out there that's new, and exciting, and different.…
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May 18, 2010
What’s in a length?
I do love Charlie Stross. And I love reading his takes on the publishing industry and the future of the book. His CMAP series should be required reading. In fact,…
May 10, 2010