Jack Vancea e-kirjoina

Jack Vancen e-kirjat ovat nyt virallisesti saatavilla, ja DRM-vapaasti totta kai.
http://www.jackvance.com/

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.h
tml?_r=1

The Lean Publishing Manifesto

http://leanpub.com/manifesto

Writers No One Reads

http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/

Cory Doctorow: Why Should Anyone Care?

But the reality of books was this: a publisher’s rep would come in and tell us breathlessly about the lead titles – how much promotion they were up for, how much the house believed in the title, how well the author had done before. We’d order a pile of hardcovers, generally a smaller pile than we’d been asked to take, and usually, they’d sell modestly well. Then we’d return the leftovers, and some months later, they’d resurface as remainders, with their dustjackets clipped or magic-markered lines drawn on their page-edges. Then they’d come in as paperbacks, hang around for a few months longer, and vanish. Sometimes, a copy or two would surface as used trade-ins, and sometimes a regular would ask us to order a copy, but within a short time, the book would no longer be in the publisher’s catalog in any form. It would be gone. -- Here’s the thing: I’ve just described the best-promoted books in the field, the ones with the biggest push.
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/09/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

Rosvohammas ja Norsunluuvaras -trilogia julkaistu

Rosvohammas ja Norsunluuvaras -trilogia julkaistu 1.9.11.

Eeppistä post-apokalyptistä invaasiofantasiaa animetroopeilla kuorrutettuna.

X Meets Y -tiivistelmä: Return to Nevèrÿon meets Nemesis the Warlock.

Pod-kirjat 11,99€/kpl ja e-kirjat 1,99€/kpl (helppo muistaa).

Kirja yksi (373 sivua)
Kirja kaksi (333 sivua)
Kirja kolme (374 sivua)

Aiemmat e-kirjani ovat olleet ilmaisia, kokeilen tällä kertaa pientä hintalappua myös niiden kohdalla.

EDIT: Tilaa ennen 9.9. ja käytä koodia SEPTEMBER, saat 20% alennuksen.

Tim Kress: Early Mourning

Ilmainen e-kirja: http://diads.net/tkfbooks.htm

The 10 awful truths about book publishing

http://outthinkgroup.com/the-10-awful-truths-about-book-publishing

Kauneimmat oikopolut -lehti nyt saatavana

Kauneimmat oikopolut eli fiktiivinen fanzine fiktiivisestä harrastuksesta julkaistu tänään.

One-book shop

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/09/author-one-book-shop-martian-summer

Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing

Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc’s publishing foray.
Aspiring spammers can even buy a DVD box set called Autopilot Kindle Cash that claims to teach people how to publish 10 to 20 new Kindle books a day without writing a word.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/social-networking/spam-clogging-amazons-kindle-self-publishing/article2063929/singlepage/#articlecontent

How Writers Build the Brand

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/how-writers-build-the-brand.html?_r=2&src=twr

Poesian runokirjat ilmaiseksi

Uusi Poesia-kustantamo tarjoaa kaikki runokirjat ilmaiseksi netissä.
http://www.poesia.fi/

Uudet versiot kirjoista

Lulu.comin painatushinnat ovat alentuneet, joten oli sopiva aika tehdät uudet versiot vanhoista kirjoista. Sama sisältö, mutta tiukempi design ja halvempi hinta.

• Pyöreitä esineitä etsimässä 160 sivua, 7,95€
• Viihdettä Vierailijoille 312 sivua, 11,98€
• Kuoleman kuningas 222 sivua, 9,95€
• Elottomat kuvat 148 sivua, 6,95€

Alennukset muissakin teoksissa. Ja kaikki voi tietysti edelleen ladata myös ilmaiseksi.

That’s the torture of walking into a bookshop these days: it’s not that you think the books will all be terrible; it’s that you know they’ll all have a certain degree of competent workmanship, that most will have about three genuinely beautiful or interesting sentences and no really bad ones, that many will have at least one convincing, well-observed character, and that nearly all will be bound up in a story that you can’t bring yourself to care about. All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books! Who, indeed, has time to read them?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree

Publishing Bingo

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shmuel510/5546944073/

'flipback' book

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/20/could-this-kill-kindle

Barry Eisler Walks Away From $500,000 Deal to Self-Pub

If you look at the current Top 100 bestsellers on Kindle, twenty-seven of them are self-published. Many of those authors were rejected by NY. Yet consumers are showing us what they want to read, and voting with their wallets.
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebooks-and-self-publishing-dialog.html

5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck

Hollywood studios generally buy 10 times as many scripts as they make into movies, which means they currently own exclusive rights to a shitload of films that will never see production. And in most cases, they won't let anyone else have them. E.T., The Matrix, Pulp Fiction and Star Wars are all films that you never would have seen because the studios that owned them were content to sit on each forever. They were saved only because someone convinced another studio to re-buy them, usually at a higher price.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19012_5-hollywood-secrets-that-explain-why-so-many-movies-suck.html

The eBook User’s Bill of Rights

Every eBook user should have the following rights:

• the right to use eBooks under guidelines that favor access over proprietary limitations
• the right to access eBooks on any technological platform, including the hardware and software the user chooses
• the right to annotate, quote passages, print, and share eBook content within the spirit of fair use and copyright
• the right of the first-sale doctrine extended to digital content, allowing the eBook owner the right to retain, archive, share, and re-sell purchased eBooks

I believe in the free market of information and ideas.

I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can flourish when their works are readily available on the widest range of media. I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can thrive when readers are given the maximum amount of freedom to access, annotate, and share with other readers, helping this content find new audiences and markets. I believe that eBook purchasers should enjoy the rights of the first-sale doctrine because eBooks are part of the greater cultural cornerstone of literacy, education, and information access.

Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information. Likewise, the current licensing arrangements mean that readers never possess ultimate control over their own personal reading material. These are not acceptable conditions for eBooks.

I am a reader. As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.

I am concerned about the future of access to literature and information in eBooks. I ask readers, authors, publishers, retailers, librarians, software developers, and device manufacturers to support these eBook users’ rights.

These rights are yours. Now it is your turn to take a stand. To help spread the word, copy this entire post, add your own comments, remix it, and distribute it to others. Blog it, Tweet it (#ebookrights), Facebook it, email it, and post it on a telephone pole.

http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/ebookrights.html