A Writer's E-Zine

I have been reading the e-zine Writers Weekly for well over a year, a newsletter that is full of all kinds of helpful and practical information for fiction and nonfiction writers, and I have failed to tell you about it (!) and recommend it. I am rectifying that today: http://www.writersweekly.com/

Laurie
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The Macmillan-Amazon Tug-of-War

The current battle between Macmillan Publishing (owner of Farrar Straus & Giroux, St Martin's Press, Henry Holt, and others) and AMAZON is a classic story for our times. It is worth looking at for authors, because it represents much of the push-shove that is going on in the evolving book publishing world that affects authors every single day. Here is the link to the Authors Guild memo on it: http://tiny.cc/Oxglk

Here is Amazon's statement about it:

http://digitalbookworld.com/2010/amazon-blinks-blames-macmillan/

I add my voice to Macmillan's. AMAZON is the new King Kong in book selling, taking over the position from Barnes & Noble. The King Kong of the moment is never fighting on behalf of authors, I can tell you that straight out. Consumers, maybe--authors, no. So challenges like this are crucial and pivotal to authors' future earnings and position.

Heads up out there.

Laurie

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