By Suw Charman-Anderson at forbes.com: After the fake reviews furore of September died down, we were all left wondering what, if anything, Amazon was going to do. The notoriously tight-lipped company had said little about the issue of sock-puppet accounts, … Read more
By Mark on thewritersguidetoepublishing.com No, it’s not a trick question. Fact is, Amazon may not be selling your 99c ebook for 99c. It may well be selling your 99c ebook for $3.50, and pocketing most of the difference. For those of … Read more
Should authors and publishers publish for the Kindle, the iPad, or something else? Some of the current options are:
- Print – not going away in a hurry
- Publish for the Kindle and iPad via the Amazon Digital Text Platform
- Publish for the iPad via the iBookstore
- Publish via a third party ebook app like Stanza
- Publish via an aggregator like Smashwords, Lulu, Myebook, Issuu
If you are an author, my advice is to write, create accompanying audio and video assets and by the time you are ready to publish, there will be more than one route open to you. Read more
Tom Evans is an author, author mentor, writer’s unblocker and e-publishing wizard. Follow his memes and musings on Twitter @thebookwright The debate is not about which device is better than the others. It’s about authors and publishers embracing a whole … Read more
If you’ve been asleep for the last two days, there’s a very handy #amazonfail flowchart over at the National Coalition Against Censorship to help you catch up. But it’s over now, right? Amazon have said it was an error, they’re … Read more
My favourite quote of the day comes from Amazon de-ranked author Gore Vidal: “Why don’t they just burn the books? They’d be better off and it’s very visual on television.” I still can’t quite believe that lovely, liberal Seattle-based Amazon … Read more
Dear Jeff, I don’t know if you use Twitter, but you might be aware of something called #amazonfail, currently the most talked-about topic among the network of 5m+ users. This is an online expression of dismay at Amazon’s new and … Read more
