Comments on: Elephant Fight: the Macmillan-Amazon scorched earth offensive

By: kt literary » Blog Archive » On being Rexroth: Living with a Literary Agent

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:05:46 +0000

[...] veterans around here might know, I’ve got some pretty strong opinions about how publishing works today. It leads to some… wonderfully spirited [...]

By: Mark Brueschke

Mark Brueschke — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:32:09 +0000

I have a very good friend at Amazon, answers to the guy to answers to Bezos and when we talk about Kindle and eBooks, we just hurl obscenities at one another like we are on 4chan. Good post I’d forward it to him, but he’d be all full of “wharrgarbl Amazon.”

By: Doyce

Doyce — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:32:29 +0000

Update: In the postscript to this piece, India, Ink explains why Big Publishing consistently cites costs to create ebooks that fall miles outside my experience and expectation. In short: they're doing it wrong.

By: Doyce

Doyce — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:47:36 +0000

I had not. I am doing so now.

There’s so much talking (and, thankfully, thinking) going on about this in the last two days that everyone’s comments are munging together in my head, becoming a behemoth gestalt opinion by Guy India Wendoctoralzi.

It’s confusing.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:38:22 +0000

It’s rare that I’m the calm voice in any situation.

I mean, wow.

Good thoughts, tho.

You read Tobias Buckell’s piece on it?

http://www.sfwa.org/2010/01/why-my-books-are-no-longer-available-on-amazon-com/

– c.
.-= Chuck´s last blog ..Brain Dump: The e-Book Kerfuffle =-.