News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The Amazon-Hachette dispute continues to escalate. Here’s a slightly pro-Amazon take (GigaOm) and a… Read more »
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News & Notes – 6/28/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I had to skip News & Notes last week because I was out of town with very limited Internet, so… Read more »
News and Notes – 5/24/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon-Hachette dispute heats up as Amazon removes pre-order capability from many Hatchett titles, including… Read more »
News & Notes – 3/22/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The Independent will no longer review gender-specific children’s books, which it claims (with justification)… Read more »
News & Notes – 11/16/13
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Google Books book-scanning ruled ‘fair use’; Authors Guild will appeal (Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly)… Read more »
Amazon to publish fanfic
Amazon plans to publish fanfic — and pay royalties to both the original rights holder and the fanfic author. The platform is called Kindle Worlds, and they’ll be kicking it off with stories from established authors like Barbara Freethy and Trish Milburn. Only worlds for which Amazon has secured a… Read more »
News & Notes — 5/11/13
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: TechCrunch broke the news that Microsoft is considering offering $1 billion for Nook. The… Read more »
News & Notes — 5/04/13
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “One Year Later, the Results of Tor UK Going DRM Free” (Julie Crisp, Tor.com). … Read more »
News & Notes – 4/13/13
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Worth Reading: Author and president of the Author’s Guild Scott Turow wrote an opinion piece on “The Slow Death of… Read more »
News & Notes — 3/23/13
Worth Reading: “R E S P E C T”: Artist Lee Moyer answers author Jim Hines’ questions about sexism and objectification in his art and SF/fantasy art in general. It’s a thoughtful, well-articulated argument that recognizes the issue while pointing out that artists are, in general, responding to industry demands… Read more »