“The acquisition could provide Hachette more leverage in its negotiations with Amazon because it will give the company control over more attractive books.”
Category: words
Who Owns A Story? The Writer Or The Person Who Lived It?
“Do I have the right to write about a firefight in Falluja, if I wasn’t there? Does it demonstrate respect and admiration for the soldiers, and show evidence of their importance in our culture? Or does it insult those who risked their lives, if I take literary possession of that experience?”
MAD Magazine, The Unlikeliest, Greatest Soldier In The Struggle Against Big Tobacco
“In the early to mid-nineteen-sixties, both before and after the Surgeon General issued his famous report on the dangers of tobacco, Mad took on the industry more than any ‘respectable’ magazine. Free from any dependency on advertising, Mad could be fearless, and it was. Its campaign of ridicule was unrelenting.”
Author Whose Novels Have Sold More Than 10 Million Copies Says She’d Be Considered A Failure If She Were Starting Now
Val McDermid: “Like most writers, you start off feeling your way. I don’t think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.”
Solving A Literary Mystery That Involved A Dark Night, Snow, And A Train
“For many writers, research is a big yawn. The past is a foreign country, and who cares how they do things differently there? Research is reading disintegrating papers in dusty libraries; sifting through shoe boxes in ancient attics; interviewing people who don’t know when to stop talking.”
What ‘Harry Potter’ Author J.K. Rowling Really Thinks Of The Publishing Industry
“Rowling’s point seems to be that this is a culture narrowly interbred. It’s also one of ego-maniacs. And the writers, or would-be writers, are the worst of the batch.”
Who Owns A Story – The Writer Or The People Written About?
“Do I have the right to write about a firefight in Falluja, if I wasn’t there? Does it demonstrate respect and admiration for the soldiers, and show evidence of their importance in our culture? Or does it insult those who risked their lives, if I take literary possession of that experience?”
What The Future Of E-Reading Looks Like: No Books, But Also No Readers
“The death of the standalone e-reader might be good news for consumers, who will have one fewer gadget to buy and lug around. But it’s bad news for the book industry.”
Amazon Offers To Print UK Publishers’ Books And This Is A Problem Because…)
“Amazon is attempting to convince publishers in the United Kingdom that it should be allowed to print its own copies of their titles to sell to its customers whenever the publisher is low on inventory.”
Are Writers Running Out Of Book Titles?
Could authors and publishers be starting to run out of titles? It can look that way…