Today’s links of interest:
- Janet Silver, Tina Pohlman, Gretchen Koss, Jennifer Josephy All Out at Doubleday
Sixteen to be laid off from Doubleday. Names are starting to trickle in. - Christian Science Monitor to Publish Online Only
Interesting, scary, cool. Not necessarily in that order. - Boncampagni sisters – author and Wall Streeter – spar over ‘Hedge Fund Wives’ novel
Fun, fun, fun — this kind of excitement always makes for a happy holiday season. - Authors, publishers settle suit against Google
Interesting. Now maybe we can get on with the business of getting on. - LA Observed: List of L.A. Times departures
File Under: How Not to Run a Newspaper. More bleeding. The LA Times — the management, such as it is — is killing the newspaper. Sort of like that whole Nero/Rome thing.
If I do a normal Google search for my novel “Brian’s Brain”, I can find it for sale online from Canada to Australia and almost ever country between those two. Now, if I try doing a Google Book Search for it I can go through hundreds of pages and never see it listed! Let’s all remember that Google is primarily a BUSINESS and their main concern is making money – not helping the poor author promote his work. He who pays the most gets listed first.