In both cases, Emily Veinglory of Pod Peep took the publishing houses to task. Mick Rooney – who writes for this site – wrote an informed article about how this takes advantage of writers. I’ll take the part of contrarian.
This could potentially be […]
Obviously, I’m a self-publishing advocate, but I can acknowledge that there are some hilariously bad self-published books out there. Thankfully, they haven’t come my way in the form of submissions. Maybe my reviews have been too critical, but it’s my experience it’s the people who write the better books who are the most obsessed with marketing – see Kristen Tsetsi and Frank Daniels. So maybe the people who write more-ridiculous titles don’t send their books out that often.
Thankfully there are sites like Selfpublishedbooks.info, which is a kind of anti-Self-Publishing Review, as it only lives to mock self-published […]
Self-Publishing Review: You were married to Philip K. Dick between 1973 and 1977. How did you two meet?
Tessa Dick: Phil’s lady friend at the time, Ginger, was breaking up with him. Phil was clinging to her, so she decided to introduce him to someone else at a beach party on the 4th of […]
I’m especially influenced by his late novels, which were a mixture of […]
In the interesting and heated discussion in the post about the future of ebooks, it was raised that the environmental benefits of ebooks are one of its major advantages. While there’s not a great argument to be made that reading a book on an e-reader is preferable to reading a printed book, the environmental impact is something that does make ebooks superior to the printed word. Some do argue that it’s easier to hold an ebook reader in one hand and searchability is something they can’t do without – but generally it’s a more pleasant experience to read, and […]
Where Completely Novel is more unique is that instead of using one printer to print up a book, users will have a choice […]
The Kindle 2 was released today to some fanfare and one very major problem: it costs the same as the first generation kindle – $359. Last week, it was rumored to go down by $100. Though the Kindle has made significant improvements on the first generation Kindle, the main criticism of the device is its cost. And because Kindle books can now be accessed on other devices, such as the iPhone, this will likely not signify a new revolution in e-books.
It is a case of two steps forward, one step back. While the Kindle is an attractive device, it […]
Proponents say this is a step in the right direction but hardly the end of the line. More so, it’s the beginning of a process where ebook reader, phone, computer, and even TV set will all be on the same device, possibly the same size as a Kindle is today – with a removable handset […]