SO here’s a talk I had this morning:
Website: *explodes*
Me: …the hell?
Website: What?
Me: You just exploded.
Website: Nuh uh.
Me: Yes. You did. You are still exploded, in fact.
Website: Well…
Me: What?
Website: At least you noticed me.
Me: …
Website: Sorry.
Me: I’ve had a lot on my –
Website: I know. I know. Sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. Here… I’ll unexplode [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ebooks’
A bit of conversation
Wizards of the Coast takes a… novel approach to dealing with PDF piracy
And by “novel”, I mean to say “utterly stupid and short-sighted.”
Earlier this evening RPGNow, Paizo, and DriveThruRPG pulled all of their Wizards of the Coast PDF products (where both new and much much much older products were available) at WotC’s request. The ability to purchase them ended at noon – the ability to download products [...]
The New Frontier of Indie Publishing has already been Mapped Out (on a Battlemat)
Before I get into this, I need to lay out a couple concepts that I’m referencing here.
Concept One: The Long Tail
“The Long Tail” describes the “niche” strategy of businesses like Amazon.com or Netflix which can be expressed – in my own words – as “sell many different products, in relatively small quantity, per product”. [...]
Why all the indie-publishing posts, Doyce?
I’m being interviewed by another writing site in a few days (this one live, via Skype, with someone in Austrailia – it’s is SO COOL to live in the future), and they were kind enough to send me some of the questions they planned to ask, so I could get my thoughts in order. (Good [...]
How to give readers their tree-book fix as an indie author?
Publishing today is a confusing mess of issues. Am I doomed to slave wages as a mid-list author? Worse, will I end up losing money? Does the ‘vanity press’ stigma still exist? If so, does it exist for the reader, or just the publishers? If you’re publishing indie, are you stuck with e-books? If [...]
Penguin demonstrates it can be taught
Penguin Reaches out to Literary Bloggers.
Last week, literary bloggers around the country debated the SXSW Festival’s “New Think for Old Publishers” panel that included Penguin marketing director, John Fagan.
The result was a wake-up call to the publishers on the panel – a debate that was described by my lovely wife as “brutal”. Since then Penguin [...]
Simon & Schuster reducing e-book royalties
Simon & Schuster reducing e-book royalties | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home.
Doesn’t make any sense.
The main thing publishers do for writers today is handle the complexities of publishing.
The complexities of publishing are vanishing.
The complexities of e-publishing were never there to begin with. What the blue hell do publishers –
How can they justify something [...]
Storyball idea goes mainstream, pays authors
Hey, any of you folks remember those Storyballs we write all the time?
Well, someone figured out how to take the Fun Thing and turn it into the The Fun Thing Where You Get Paid.
Collaborative Creative Writing Community – StoryMash.
Go. Check it out. I’m going to.
