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Publishing is the business of creating books and selling them to readers. And yet, for some reason we aren’t supposed to talk about the latter. Most literary writers consider book sales a half-crass / half-mythological subject that is taboo to discuss. Most literary writers consider book sales a half-crass / half-mythological subject that is taboo to discuss. […]
On the Harper Lee situation.
The London Review of Books Bookshop blog has the entirety of a letter Elena Ferrante sent her press when they were preparing to publish her first novel. After an introductory paragraph, in which sh…
Authors must be free to publish the works they want to write. But publishers often insist on terms that can make that impossible. In attempting to restrict authors from competing against their own works, publishers …
The traditional publishers are screaming about Amazon. I’ve learned over the years that when someone screams about something, they’re doing so because they feel some kind of pressure, some kind of …
The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man’s name. But each time I read a study about unconscious bias, I got a little closer to trying it.
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Rights reversion.
A friend of mine in college used to refer to the Discovery Channel as the “What’s Eating the Gazelle Today” station. If you paid attention to the proud majestic carnivores, you go…
(UPDATE: The Toast and The Butter are indeed revamping their contracts; details at the bottom of the original entry.) Writer Beware has posted a heads up for writers with regard to Web sites The To…
Faculty authors who contract to write for some scientific journals could be signing away more than the economic rights to their work, according to a Duke University official.
A backstage battle between publishers and authors over royalties may be limiting which e-books you can buy