Tag Archives: eBooks

Writing in the Digital Age: You Guess — Nook, Micronook, Nooksoft, or MSNook?

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

Nook and Microsoft, sitting in a tree, K * I * S * S * I * N * G First comes books, then comes hardware, Then comes software with nightmare support. It is still just a rumor, but with … Continue reading →


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Crowdfunding Enters Adolescence

Posted on April 3, 2013 by
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A year ago I was winding up my first crowdfunding campaign, for a YA novel that Book View Cafe published as Living in Threes. I undertook the experiment at the suggestion of others who had gone before me, researched and studied … Continue reading →


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Accidental Discovery

Posted on March 25, 2013 by
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The argument for real books against virtual books is often based on the thingness of the real book — the beauty of the binding, the pleasure of handsome design and typesetting, the sensuality of turning a paper page, the pride … Continue reading →


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Full-Time Writing: Oh, the Horrors!

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

I read a dead-on post from Brian Keene about a month ago, in which he discusses what it’s like to be a full-time horror writer. Specifically, he talks about how to earn a living and cope with the external world. For writers … Continue reading →


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Random Hydra Rides Again: Or, Why Better Isn’t Always Good Enough

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

And so the saga continues. There is a new contract. It’s better than the old one. It is not, however, even yet, a good contract. Scrivener’s Error, the publishing blog for true wonks, is not terribly impressed. What it looks … Continue reading →


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Random Hydra and the Terrible, Horrible, Awful, No-Good, Very Bad Contract

Posted on March 8, 2013 by
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There’s been a great deal of excitement on the interwebs for the past couple of days, as major publisher Random House has announced a wonderful! new! line of ebook imprints for various genres including science fiction (Hydra) and mystery (Alibi). … Continue reading →


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Ebook Sales Surge?

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

In a post last month, I mentioned the speculation in Indieland that Amazon had sold its soul to the Secret Masters of Publishing (The Big Six Legacy Publishers and their scaly overlords – the Lizard People ™.) The proof cited … Continue reading →


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In Which I Deal With the Realities of E-Publishing

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

I did this once before to thank you for reviewing La Desperada on Amazon. Now I’m offering the same thank you prize for posting a review of Some Enchanted Season on Amazon. Wait, you say. Isn’t this Book View Cafe? … Continue reading →


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Gatekeeping in the World of Ebooks

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

In this day, when social media are saturated with writers touting their self-published novels, it seems that anyone can write a book. Anyone with any talent or ambition, that is. Certainly, anyone willing to plug along and generate 80K or … Continue reading →


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Libraries and Ebooks

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

by Ursula K. Le Guin It can be just as fast and easy to order an ebook from the library as to buy it online, and it costs nothing. Why would anyone buy an ebook from the publisher if the … Continue reading →


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