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For years the distribution of books has been controlled by a small few, six to be exact. This small few put out what they wanted, controlling what readers had access to. Amazon has been a major factor in distributing books published both by traditional and self-publishers to a wider audience. Big Six benefited from Amazon’s “go big or go home” business model ...more
Guest editor Kate Quinn shares a unique perspective on Stephenie Meyer's achievements.
"Yes, Twi-haters, Stephenie Meyer has talent. So does Jackie Collins. So does James Patterson, and Harold Robbins, and all those writers who pump out terrible sex-and-shopping paperbacks with Fabio and a wind machine on the cover. Having talent is very different, you see, from being a good writer."...more
“Buy E-books Here,” reads a sign outside a local book exchange. I go inside, looking for a good deal on an older novel, to find that the wall, where used-books were shelved is now home to a desk and a computer ...more
As authors we must learn to take criticism much like a linebacker absorbs the impact of a 300 pound opponent. We suck it up. This is a professional and healthy attitude for authors to maintain. While it is senseless to reply to negative reviews or to rip into a reader who just didn’t like our book, it is quite another to mildly accept reviews that are nothing more than an attack. ...More
The endless, ever-present disputes—whether traditional publishing will brave the twenty first century or go down in smoke and yield to the emerging alternative forms of publishing—have stirred a lot of mud in the already precarious waters of the writing world ...more
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