according to PW Daily.
Not sure if this is a good thing or what. While i certainly don’t side with the traditional Publisher-Author model, my reasons for it are mostly financial. The authors simply don’t get a big enough cut for their work. [...]
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By joshuacitrak, on April 5th, 2010 |
 If you’re not an avid LH reader, then you need to question your [...] By joshuacitrak, on January 20th, 2010 |
Hit the jump to see the good doctor, Raj Patel author of two best selling, hard hitting, socially conscious [...] By joshuacitrak, on November 9th, 2009 |
found this little tid-bit on Keith Peters blog. basically it breaks down how to convert your Kindle purchased ebooks to other open source file extensions which would allow your book to be viewed on non-Kindle readers, such as the iPhone or your [...] By joshuacitrak, on September 21st, 2009 |
The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on the Google Book Settlement saying that currently, it violates the Sherman Act. This is probably the death nail for this sucker in its current form. Although both sides say they will continue negotiating, many are wondering who they are negotiating for, as many of the stakeholders/rightsholders [...] By joshuacitrak, on September 10th, 2009 |
Thanks to true grassroots activism on the part of authors everywhere, the House Judiciary sub-committee is looking into the legality of the snowjob “Settlement” proposed by Google and the Author’s Guild. Marybeth Peters, of the U.S. Register of Copyrights, dealt a terrible blow to the deal in her opening comments saying the Settlement was “fundamentally at odds with the [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 29th, 2009 |
As the deadline for the Google Book Settlement opt out, as negotiated by the Author’s Guild, nears, all authors need to be aware of their (lack of) rights regarding this settlement. In my opinion, this is a terrible deal for authors and artists in general as it had not punished Google for illegally copying books and gives them license in to future to continue doing so. [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 22nd, 2009 |
This week Barnes and Noble has launched its eBook site, offering 700,000 titles at start. While Amazon and its Kindle continue to struggle, mostly because of proprietary format issues, B&N will allow its books to be read on the industry standard ePub format. The ePub format works on a variety of devices, from your iPhone [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 17th, 2009 |
If you’ve been following the revolutionary way that online giant Scribd.com has sought to change publishing, more than likely you’ve heard this on going drama about Wired’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free”. A book that attempts to quantify the idea of free in the digital [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 9th, 2009 |
while the question, “how do i get an agent?” has beleaguered writers since Adam, we never really tire of asking it, do we? perhaps if we ask it enough, we’ll find the right [...] |
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