Today’s links of interest:
- New Orleans Bartender Wins Amazon Breakthrough Award
Very cool. - Authors Guild Looking at Antitrust Issue of Amazon?s POD Plan
Yep, ’cause it wouldn’t be a party if everyone didn’t show up. - Rachel Cooke on the Virago Modern Classic
A look at one of our favorite publishers. - Jodi Picoult: the exorcist
Jodi Picoult takes Britain by storm. Critics may not be charmed, but the British press is surely on her side. - Take my book. It’s free. / Giving away books as podcasts is new way to promote sales
More on how Scott Sigler built an audience by giving his books away…and how that translated into real money for the author and his publisher(s). - House of cards
New favorite phrase: imaginatively enhanced non-fiction. Or, if you will, the people and places and events that formed the basis for the book that became the movie "21" were greatly changed in the writing of the book. Also the making of the movie. - Summary of Borders Group Inc
In this legal notice, Borders plans to grant current executives retention bonuses…generally not something that happens when all is rosy and stable at a company.
