In Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson looks at controversial interactions at the 20-million-member Goodreads reader-and-author site. Read More
eBooks: Counting in the Dark
Porter Anderson looks at Philip Jones’ new ebook sales ranking in London — and at Peter Brantley’s worries in the States about e-writings’ preservation. Read More
Trying To Count the eBooks We've Hatched
In Writing on the Ether at JaneFriedman.com, Porter Anderson takes a look at the chicken-and-egg effects of ebooks’ rising popularity and self-publishing’s hard-to-track results. Read More
The Agents' View: A Case Study in Agent-Assisted Publishing
Movable Type agents Jason Allen Ashlock and Adam Chromy on the realities of staging the agency-managed Rogue Reader collective: Publishing Perspectives. Read More
On the Ether: Faster, Authors, Faster!
Porter Anderson at JaneFriedman.com asks for Ether reader input about the rising demands for author speed and productivity in writing books today. Read More
Authors in the Inferno: Dan Brown and Books
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writing on the Ether: Authors in the Inferno It is so springtime for us snobs and critics. Dan Brown has heaved another one at us. And despite the fact that I may be killed in a dark cathedral vestibule in Europe by a rogue member of the Druid Daughters… Read More
Writing on the Ether | JaneFriedman.com
Our initial sponsor is L.L. Barkat, author of Rumors of Water, as well as the managing editor behind Tweetspeak Poetry. Jane and I are grateful to Laura for offering her support of this weekly feature, which takes considerable time and effort to deliver. Thank you! Read More
Writing on the Ether | JaneFriedman.com
It’s springtime for Amazon, and there’s more than one evolving new slant on the massive retailer in play at the moment. Between the monkey chatter and the growls of slow-moving traditionalists, hear it? A skip in the usual drumbeats. A new syncopation in the publishing jungle. Read More
Writing on the Ether | JaneFriedman.com
In a week of sometimes rancorous debate about the actions of the U.S. Department of Justice and the responses from sued publishers, an initially zany-disaster mode has darkened into a more serious tone. It’s a time when no one seems able to just be quiet. Read More
Writing on the Ether | JaneFriedman.com
“What other industries permit agency pricing? In what other sector do you find manufacturers setting the prices and retailers having to, essentially, like it or lump it at a certain percentage?” Read More