Amazon 1-star review farming on Craigslist: How safe is your book?
Here's a particularly nasty abuse of the Amazon review system that brilliant science fiction and thriller writer and all-round superior human being Nick Mamatas tipped me off to. Some nice person...
Kobo’s Mark Lefebvre on common digital publishing pitfalls
At BookExpo America today, I took the chance to attend a panel given by Mark Lefebvre, Director of Kobo Writing Life, on common digital publishing pitfalls. Lefebvre addressed a number of...
What causes the ‘smell of books’?
A few days ago I mentioned the “smell of books” in the context of scents that various perfume and other scented-product manufacturers are trying to produce. The aroma is caused by...
Canadian librarians approach accommodations with more publishers over e-book pricing
The Toronto Star has a piece on Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Book Pricing, the coalition of 29 Canadian public library systems that has been pressing major publishers for better licensing...
Layoffs at Safari Books Online sub service in restructuring: CEO Andrew Savikas has left
The coming shutdown of Book Slut isn’t the only depressing news in the publishing world.
Now, from The Digital Reader, comes word of “massive layoffs” at Safari Books Online and the departure...
Why e-books should always be cheaper than paper books
A blogger named Max Florschutz ponders "the idea that customers aren’t holding an e-book to be of similar value" and wondering why that was. Chris Meadows ably summarizes a few of Mr. Florshutz's...
Chuck Wendig, Ryk Spoor, others condemn Huffington Post for still not paying writers
The Huffington Post and the question of payment versus exposure has popped up in social media again, as someone found a quote from HuffPo UK editor Stephen Hull that tries to...
Women in publishing and other hot topics at Digital Book World 2016 in March
"Women at the Intersection of Publishing, Finance and Technology" and "Transformation in Publishing: Quarto & Sourcebooks" are just two of the highly anticipated sessions and hot topics at the upcoming Digital...
Barnes & Noble reminds us once again that we don’t own our e-books
David touched on this a couple of days ago, but this Gizmodo piece from yesterday makes it worth bringing up again. The hassles that Nook owners in the UK are going...
David Gaughran Twitter rant fingers Big Publishing-backed book fair scams
Self-publishing savant and scourge of seamy publishing practices David Gaughran has launched a broadside on Twitter against publisher and book fair support of vanity press and promotional scams targeting naive self-publishing...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
