Love Your Indie Month
The month’s half over, but that by no means makes it a wash. Joe Hill has declared March Love Your Indie Month, and for that I <3 him mightily. So hie thee to your local independent bookstore and...
View Article2009 Hugo Award Nominations
The Hugo Nominees are up! They’ll be announced at this year’s WorldCon, Anticipation, in August. The Anticipation site has links to some of the nominated works, here. But for those of you who want to...
View Article#amazonfail
Long day yesterday, still reeling a bit, so I’ll keep this short and let you clicky for yourself. Hopefully back into ranting away tomorrow. It seems that over the weekend, Amazon decided to derank...
View Article#amazonfail II: Blame It On the French
According to an article at the Seattle PI, the glitch that caused Amazon to derank over 57,000 titles over the weekend was caused by an employee in France filling out a field the wrong way. Says...
View ArticleMy New Heroes
Go read Lilith Saintcrow’s “Glitch, Monoculture, Profit (#amazonfail recap).” It’s a great summary of the weekend, and raises some very relevant questions about the idea of ranking books in the first...
View ArticleInvent My Teleporter, Already
Le sigh. If only this wasn’t an hour away. More than that, when you factor in rush hour traffic.
View ArticleBuy Indie Day!
Hey, cats and kittens — May 1st has been declared Buy Indie Day . So if there’s something you’ve been meaning to pick up, or if some author you hear on TV or on the radio piques your curiosity, why...
View ArticleThe Cost of the Price War: Too Damned High
The short version, if you haven’t been reading up on it: Wal-Mart slashes prices on bestsellers that will be out for the holidays. Books that have a cover price of $25-$30 will be sold for $10....
View Article“Help, My Bookstore’s Closing!”
If you’ve been following bookselling news for the last few months, you’ve likely heard about Borders’ financial woes. Last week, after attempting to negotiate with publishers and work out financing...
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Oh, Internet
I’m really, really not sure why newspapers and news websites keep publishing articles about how print books/publishing/bookselling are dead by journalists who know… absolutely jack about the industry....
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