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Ideological book formatting and the NDR discovers e-books

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Cora

First of all, I was interviewed today by erotic romance writer Clarissa Wild, so come on over and say hello. Here is a cautionary tale about hiring external help to bring your e-book to market. The religion-critical site Pantheos reports … Continue reading →

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Mixed E-Book Links of Interest

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Cora

For starters, the indie versus trad publishing or maybe both debate is still going on (and will probably be for a while yet). SF writer Tobias Buckell cautions writers eager to jump into indie publishing that the big successes like … Continue reading →

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The Renaissance of Short Fiction Revisited

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Cora

Back in February, I wrote a post on this blog about how the internet and the e-book revolution have brought about a renaissance of short fiction. Since so far, all of our e-books here at Pegasus Pulp are either short … Continue reading →

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The Great Indie Publishing War of 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Cora

It all started at Salon, when a writer called John Winters stated that he was a self-publishing failure and also likened self-publishing to masturbation, which naturally did not go down all that well with many indie writers. Never mind that … Continue reading →

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Sockpuppets on Sockpuppeting

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Cora

No, not really. But I’m gradually running out of post titles here. Anyway, as you could gather from the title, the fake reviews scandal is still expanding and hitting the mainstream media. At The Atlantic, David Wagner points out that … Continue reading →

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This ain’t no witch hunt

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Cora

We’re still talking about the whole fake reviews scandal it appears. For now, Barry Eisler weighs in on the sockpuppeting and paid reviews scandal once more and though his tone is a lot more measured than that of the Joe … Continue reading →

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Posting sockpuppet reviews is not free speech

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Cora

Joe Konrath defends the practices of buying fake reviews, leaving malicious one star reviews to trash the books of rivals and leaving sockpuppet reviews as free speech. Because an author deliberately leaving one star reviews on books by rival using … Continue reading →

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More on the paid reviews scandal, John Locke, loyalty transfer and Joe Paterno

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Cora

By now the New York Times article about a “pay for customer reviews” service that I blogged about yesterday has filtered through the online writing and publishing world, so here are some more responses: At Self Publishing Review which offers … Continue reading →

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Sue Grafton, Ewan Morrison and the latest indie publishing uproars

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Cora

Mystery author Sue Grafton caused a minor uproar in indie publishing land, when she called self-publishing “the lazy option” in an interview with the Louisville Gazette, her hometown paper. The original interview is here and here is the relevant quote: … Continue reading →

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