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Via Scoop.it – Writing and reading fiction

Here’s another, different, take on the KDP offer. If you get most of your sales through Kindle, it probably makes sense for you. If you don’t care for it, the contract is renewed every three months. On the other hand, it might have dire long term consequences for the industry. Going back and forth from Jeff Bennington’s reasoning (The Writing Bomb below) and this from Mark Coker, I’m torn. I’ll keep an eye on this and see how things go for Jeff.
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Via Scoop.it – Writing and reading fiction

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Via Scoop.it – Writing and reading fiction

In this post there are great lessons about effective book cover art, publishers who handicap sales and fellow authors sniping at anyone who dares to complain. It’s fascinating, like a car crash in slow motion. 
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Via Scoop.it – Writing and reading fiction

I’m trying to get some writing done, and I really feel like I’ve said all there is to say about the publishing industry and going indie. But then several alert readers emailed me to say Hachette created an internal memo to explain to its employees and customers why it’s still relevant.   I was published by Hachette, and for the most part I enjoyed working with them. They’re good people and dedicated professionals.   But boy, their memo is a giant bowl of steaming fail. And they dropped the ball when it came to me, too. More on that below.   So I called up my friend Barry Eisler and begged him to convince me to just let it go and not do a blog post about how silly the memo is.   Instead, Barry read the memo and said, come on, we should just fisk this sucker together.
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