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Why Is The Media Ignoring Author Exploitation By Publishers?
Posted in Non-Fiction, Publishing
Regarding Divide and Conquer Ebook on Amazon
Because of the nature of Amazon’s business model, it is difficult to publish free books and Creative Commons licensed material directly for the Kindle market. This is one of those unfortunate instances where the business and creative communities are in…
News and Views: A Random Smattering
There were a few publishing stories in the news this week, but nothing which I had any strong opinions about. Although some of the readership may feel more strongly about things than me so I’ll briefly discuss them up here…
Apple Found Guilty of Price Fixing
On Wednesday morning, Judge Denise Cote issued her ruling against Apple in the ebook price fixing trial. Deciding that Apple acted in violation of United States antitrust laws when it entered into agreements with five of the biggest book publishers…
Posted in Non-Fiction, Publishing
Kindle Worlds went live this week
Kindle Worlds, Amazon’s self-publishing market for fan fiction went live earlier this week. The idea is to allow authors of fan fiction to publish their stories via the existing epublishing model established on Amazon for original works of fiction. However,…
eBook Price Fixing Trial
The price setting trial against Apple and five of the Big Six Publishers had its closing arguments earlier this week. This being a writing and reading community, I was curious what your opinions were on the trial. In case you…
Foil & Phaser 