Today’s links of interest:
- Dear Bitches, Smart Authors First Inaugural Podcast
Featuring Malle Vallik. Fun, fun, fun. - New York judge OKs Amazon Tax
Expect more exciting news in the world of taxing stuff from online retailers. - Edinburgh Publisher Leads The Way In Digital Books Revolution
Canongate will digitize its backlist. Please excuse our "so soon?" moment here. - Random House alters acquisition practices
We quote: "In what could be viewed as a symptom of tough times ahead, Random House of Canada will no longer allow its individual imprints ? namely Random House Canada, Knopf Canada, and Doubleday Canada ? to make offers on the same titles." - Expert Explains Why E-Books Are So Expensive
Setting aside our thoughts on the percentage taken by the DRM providers, this shows why it’s so important to rethink the financial dynamics of ebooks before it’s too late. - A Cautionary e-Book Tale
As we’d previously heard from someone with direct knowledge, a security flaw lead to these books being pulled from distribution. Now again available. Same concerns apply. - Dorchester Signs with LibreDigital for e-Book Distribution
And another one. - The Media Equation – Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News?
Some good notions, some not-so-good. People will pay for content; the key is make the content desirable and usable (and affordable). So if you have to use the iTunes model, well, please make it a better experience than the one that exists! - Written any good e-books lately? Smashwords founder can help
Nice interview with Mark Coker of the gettting-lots-of-great-buzz Smashwords. - How are you going to keep the online sales that begin in your store?
Ann Kingman takes off the gloves and asks the most important question facing booksellers. This one is a keeper - How the recession will affect publishing
This is probably true: "They all feel that, for true readers, books are not a ?discretionary spend?. As Katharine Fullerton Gerould wrote in the Twenties: ?If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.? - Georgia Newspaper Drops "Books" from Arts Section Title
Yeah, you don’t want people to know what’s in the section. On the other hand, for years the LAT has had "music" and "pop music", like one is real music and the other is the great pretender. - Winnie The Pooh Sequel To Be Published
Count us less-than-enthusiastic about this project. - Pershing Square Sells Entire Stake in Barnes & Noble
Ah, when business is all about the bottom line for someone else, rather than focusing on making the business the best it can be, much uncertainty and confusion follows. - Anderson Succeeds Richter at S&S Children’s
Jon Anderson is now in charge of Simon and Schuster Children’s. - found_objects: The Recently Deflowered Girl
This is all kinds of silly fun. - British novelists writing pornography
Though some might call it basic erotica. Just saying.