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SFWA Asks for Comments on Admitting Self-Published Authors as Members
It’s 2014, and even though the self-pub revolution is 6 years old writers and authors groups are still struggling to come to terms with the idea of admitting self-published authors to their ranks. It...
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Google Responds to Authors Guild in Google Books Appeal
The Authors Guild may have lost its 8-year-long lawsuit against Google last November, but they’re not through. The AG filed an appeal of that ruling in April of this year, and on last Thursday Google...
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Amazon Offers Authors 100% of eBook Sales During Dispute with Hachette
Something tells me that Amazon doesn’t expect their contract dispute with the French media conglomerate Lagardère to end any time soon. The WSJ reported this morning that Amazon is now offering to give...
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Chuck Wendig is Right About Authors Taking Sides in the Amazon-Hachette Dispute
If you’ve been following the media circus that is the contract dispute between Amazon and Hachette this past week, you may have noticed a couple additions. Groups of authors have started taking sides...
View ArticleHachette Declines Amazon’s Offer to Give Authors 100% eBook Royalties During...
Well that was quick. It’s only been a handful of hours since the letter Amazon sent to authors and agents was leaked to the press, and Hachette has already issued a statement declining the offer (found...
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Mike Shatzkin is Wrong About Amazon’s 100% Revenue Offer to Hachette Authors
Earlier this week Amazon stunned the publishing world when they sent a letter to agents and authors affected by the contract dispute with Hachette. That letter, which was soon leaked to the press,...
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Is Kindle Unlimited Good or Bad for Authors – Six Viewpoints
In the two days since Amazon officially announced their ebook subscription service, everyone and their cousin has posted an editorial on the question of whether KU is good or bad for authors. Being...
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New Authors Group to Add Pressure to Amazon in Dispute With Hachette
Move over, The Authors Guild, you have new competition in the castigating Amazon department. A new authors advocacy group is coalescing around Douglas Preston, the author of one of the open letters to...
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909 Authors Waste a Hundred Thousand Dollars on Ad Castigating Amazon
Authors United, the new advocacy group which is formed around an open letter written by Doug Preston, will be taking out an advert in the Sunday edition of the NY Times to publish that open letter....
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Have the Negotiations Broken Down? Amazon Calls on Indie Authors and...
Amazon fired their latest salvo in the pr battle with Hachette this morning, and for once I wonder if they made a mistake. The retailer sent out an email to all authors and publishers currently signed...
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Writer’s Digest Partners with BookBaby to Offer Services to Self-Published...
BookBaby, a leading ebook distributor, has formed a new publishing services company in partnership with F+W Media’ Writer’s Digest. Blue Ash Publishing, named for the Cincinnati suburb which houses...
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Amazon Expands Pre-order Buttons to All KDP Authors
With no fanfare or official announcement, earlier today Amazon quietly gave indie authors a sales feature some had been requesting for the past several years. According to a new page in the KDP help...
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Amazon Responds to Criticism from German Authors
In response to yesterday’s open letter from German authors, Amazon reiterated today that it is fighting with German publishers over the terms and conditions of its ebook contracts. I do not yet have an...
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And Yet Another Teacher is Punished for Writing a Novel
Update: It looks like this story might be a tempest in a teapot caused by really bad local reporting. The LA Times followed up and reported that the teacher had real mental health issues, and not...
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Kentucky Public Libraries Launch New Web Portal for Self-Published Authors
The Henderson County and Daviess County Public Libraries recently launched a new portal at www.ePublishOrBust.com with the goal of helping potential writers make the leap to self-published authors....
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Authors United Considers Next Move Against Amazon
It’s been almost a month since Authors United spent $104,000 on a two-page advert in the Sunday NY Times, and this group of 900 plus authors is contemplating what to do next. In a recent letter to the...
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Nook Press Misses Payments, Authors Left With No Explanation or Support
I think B&N forgot step #4 From the “You had one job” dept … Reports are coming in this weekend that Barnes & Noble’s self-pub platform Nook Press has dropped the ball. An unknown number of...
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Twitter Launches Buy Buttons, Enabling Authors to Sell eBooks on the Service
Twitter announced a new service yesterday which indie authors might like. The social network started a beta test for new buy buttons. The test will only include a small percentage of U.S. users, and it...
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Authors Continue to Go Hungry in Nook Press Payment Fiasco
Last week numerous authors complained that Nook Press, B&N’s self-pub platform, had missed their most recent payment. While Barnes & Noble claimed on Monday that this issue had been resolved...
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Authors United Sends Open Letter to Amazon Board, Filled With Bad Arguments...
The anti-Amazon group Authors United fired their next salvo today in their battle against Amazon. After seeing that their last effort, a $104,000 full page ad in the NYTimes, was less than successful...
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