By Nat | Published:
August 31, 2010
Still sulky sick. My nose hurts from blowing it so much. Still, I’m definitely much more human today than I was yesterday. Getting 12 hours sleep probably helped. Publishing: AAR speak to Dorchester authors about the recent changes there. Some are sticking with them, some are self-publishing, some are looking for new publishers. Dorchester seem [...]
By Nat | Published:
August 23, 2010
Publishing: Richard Curtis talks about the conflicts he’s faced running an epublisher as an agent. As one of the first agents to take this step, it’s interesting to see him speak openly about why he made the moves he did. At the same time, the subject of adverts in ebooks has reared its head again. [...]
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By Nat | Published:
August 16, 2010
Publishing: All247News accuses the iPad of causing the Que’s demise. It looked like a great ereader, but I think blaiming the iPad for its demise is going a little too far. I think it’s $649 price compared with the Kindle’s $139 is what killed it. eReaders aren’t multi-use devices, and as such can’t command muti-use [...]
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By Nat | Published:
August 9, 2010
Publishing: Dorchester goes digital, and B&N looks to go private. It’s all a bit rock&roll reunion tour in print publishing too right now, isn’t it? Oh, but ebooks haven’t stopped: Conneticut is investigating agency publishing as being potentially anti-competitive. Interest-Piquing: Joy Berry, children’s author, threatened to sue Joy Berry, erotica author, on the basis the [...]
By Nat | Published:
August 2, 2010
Publishing: Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news this week from the retailing giants. The good news is that agency pricing is NOT coming to the UK. Amazon are finally launching a Kindle store in this country (and Kindle 3), and have confirmed this. The bad news? Apple are censoring their bestseller lists (not [...]
By Nat | Published:
July 26, 2010
Publishing: Oh good, they’re at it again. Borders and B&N have chosen not to stock a book on the basis the girl on the cover isn’t white, and therefore it won’t sell. Well, no, not if bookshops won’t stock it. The My Friend Amy blog pens an open letter to them. It’s just sad, really. [...]
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By Nat | Published:
July 5, 2010
Still trying to figure out what’s precisely gone wrong, but I think I’m mostly back on track with wordpress now. As long as I don’t want to edit anything… I was hoping to start posting interviews this week, but between the website troubles and the fact I’m disappearing south for my birthday and my mother’s [...]
By Nat | Published:
June 28, 2010
The Times is now behind a paywall, so that’s the last of their culture section well see for a while. I like the paper reasonably well, but not enough to pay for it when I get most of my news from the BBC and most of my culture from the Guardian (sexed up Anne Frank [...]
By Nat | Published:
June 21, 2010
It’s Pride Month in the US, so there’s all sorts of interesting and educational links popping up at the moment. There’s Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Straight Privilege Edition, from unusualmusic at theangryblackwoman.com, and a great series of articles on avoiding stereotypes in YA fiction from Malinda Lo. The Examiner is listing calls for LGBTQ submissions. [...]
By Nat | Published:
June 14, 2010
Publishing: eBooks rewrite bookselling. A bit of a mix of sensible estimations and wild predictions, but another sign people are waking up to the potential impact of eBooks. Interest-Piquing: Do you write fantasy or literary fiction? InsPiring: Shakespeare in the bush – never make assumptions about what is “universal”. You can’t have a revenge narrative [...]
