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Why Amazon is not a monopoly
Franklin Foer of The New Republic has joined the ranks of folks with Amazon Derangement Syndrome; take a look at this article. The best response I’ve seen is this blog post at the Washington Post (now...
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Who are these annoying little people who are reviewing my book on Amazon?
Advice-columnist Margo Howard is distressed that she received bad reviews of her recent memoir from real, ordinary people on Amazon. The reviews were written by Amazon’s Vine community, and Ms. Howard...
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Amazon vs. Hachette — The Final Blog
Amazon and Hachette have finally settled. Thank goodness. The settlement appears to follow the outlines of Amazon’s recent agreement with Simon & Schuster — the publisher can set its own price...
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High standards in publishing
Here’s a passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, Player Piano (1952), which imagines a world in which managers and engineers run the world. A woman is explaining why she has become a prostitute....
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More on e-book price resistance
Via The Passive Voice, I see the Wall Street Journal reporting on the decline in e-book sales from the major publishers. This is in the wake of the new contracts they signed with Amazon, which allowed...
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My ePublisher weighs in on the state of ebooks
Every once in a while my ePublisher sends out an email giving their thoughts on the state of ebook publishing. The latest one is pretty interesting. In a section titled “Reality Sets In” they talk...
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Does everyone know I have an Amazon author page?
You can find it here. Notice the exciting Follow button beneath my photo. Click it, and apparently Amazon keeps you updated on my new releases and maybe other cool stuff. (For those keeping track,...
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Amazon is purging book reviews again
This made news a few years ago. The difference this time is now Amazon apparently may purge reviews from someone an author “knows” online. Yes, you read that right. This can be someone who has...
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Free ebooks in return for reviews: Some results
It’s becoming harder to get customer reviews for books nowadays. That’s probably related to the general downturn in the ebook market. Here I mentioned a program, run by my epublisher, to give away...
View ArticleIn which Alexa reads my novel to me
My wonderful kids got me an Amazon Echo Dot for Father’s Day. This is an awesome little toy. Alexa (the thing’s voice) can play music and set a timer and tell me jokes and do math problems and lots...
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