Galley Cat reported on Amazon’s hardline reaction to Reader Views. Amazon banned the company, which is dedicated to reviewing books and author publicity, from posting reviews on Amazon that authors have paid for via Reader Views’ publicity services, and took down reviews already posted. In a follow up, Galley Cat queried reader reactions to paid reviews [...]

Sorry, I’m a little late with the post! My excuse is the lazy days of summer are upon us. Hope everyone is beating the heat. By far the biggest news in the industry last week was the liquidation of Borders Books. AP journalist Mae Anderson in this USA Today article presents some of the varying [...]

Publishing was still mulling over trade show take-aways from BookExpoAmerica this past week. Among the more positive reports was this upbeat summary, The Serious Business of 21st Century Publishing, by journalist and publisher Peter Osnos. Osnos reported that: The overall sense in publishing is that, rather than being pushed to the margins of the information [...]

Your chair is your energy. According to this NY Times article by Olivia Judson, sitting in a desk is bad for your health, your weight, and your focus. Here’s another article by Lloyd Alter showing examples of stand-up desks. Michael Hyatt made very interesting predictions in his post on Six e-Book Trends to Watch in [...]

Jessica Faust talks about labels, chick lit and women’s fiction on Gabriela Lessa’s blog. If you ever read (or start to read) a book filled with clichés and bad writing, and you can’t understand why it’s on the bestseller lists, then this article titled “Why we love bad writing” is for you. A new Canadian [...]

We’re having our first agent guest blogger this Monday, the fabulous Jennifer Schober from Spencerhill Associates. She’s written a great blog and she’s taking questions. Be sure to stop off and comment. Agent Jessica Faust from Bookends posted her New and Updated Publishing Dictionary. She says it’s an “ever-popular post.” Agent Donald Maass wrote a [...]