Yvonne DiVita:

Author, I wish I knew who you are, but you are totally correct. My continued... Read Entire Comment

Author:

You say: “Overall, many writers and bloggers agree that Ingram has a hand in this,... Read Entire Comment

chris:

we have posted a form that easily allows anyone affected by this to personally contact the... Read Entire Comment

Yvonne DiVita:

Latest updates on this issue - a letter on Amazon’s website discussing why... Read Entire Comment

Babette:

Hi - A friend is working on a manuscript that would provide an interesting starting point... Read Entire Comment

A van Agtmael:

Your announcement of “best business book of the year” was scheduled for... Read Entire Comment

Andrew Grabois:

Hi Anthony, Thanks for your comments. In answer to your lead question on the... Read Entire Comment

Anthony S. Policastro:

Hi Andrew, I think there are a lot of factors that contribute to the... Read Entire Comment

Erika Andersen:

Wow, thanks, guys - I’m honored to be included. And excited! Warmly, Erika Read Entire Comment

Bill:

Andrew, The flip side of reading is writing. If your reading is not up to par, then your... Read Entire Comment

Tassos:

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Izabael:

Such an interesting article! It tells us the differences between SF and Fantasy, the... Read Entire Comment

Jean:

This site gives the information about separate output statistics for the trade on business... Read Entire Comment

John Kremer:

For more on Amazon.com sales rank, see http://promotingyourbooks.com/ amazon.htm. Read Entire Comment

John Kremer:

I have six pages of book publishing statistics. The latest ones are featured at... Read Entire Comment

Nobody Knows Anything

An interesting article in the Boston Globe (by way of Publishers Lunch) on the unlikely success of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin ... [Link]

Writers Say the Darndest Things (II)

They do it here, too. Last week, I reported on how two of Britain’s most renowned novelists got into some trouble for saying something stupid: Doris Lessing for expounding on ... [Link]

Writers Say the Darndest Things

I’m always surprised by how talented people can say the most ill-considered things. Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, for one, has shot from the hip again. According to London’s Daily ... [Link]

Springtime for Himmler

Talk about poetic justice. Last November, the Wall Street Journal reported on the strange case of one Katrin Himmler. Ms. Himmler, you see, is the grand niece of Heinrich Himmler, ... [Link]

Best One-Click Countries

The Guardian and BBC reported on a global survey of 26,000 people in 48 countries conducted by Nielsen Online that shows books are the most popular item purchased on the ... [Link]

Gastronomic Regression

Much has been written about the nasty legal spat between Jessica Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld’s wife) and Missy Chase Lapine. Lapine has accused Seinfeld of stealing the idea for her cookbook. ... [Link]

Oops!…They Did It Again

There have been so many accusations and allegations in recent weeks that they have become a blur —– It has been reported that Cassie Edwards allegedly lifted passages from others ... [Link]

Is it Publishing or Slurping?

A recent announcement by the self-publishing site Blurb.com that they produced 80,000 new titles last year received wide coverage and elicited heady proclamations about the democratization of publishing. Typical was ... [Link]

Lost in the Sauce

I can’t believe this stuff still happens. The New York Times reports that Raymond Sokolov, the restaurant critic for the Wall Street Journal, is up in arms because another publisher ... [Link]

Books and the Housing Crisis

Interesting bit by Denise Winterman in the BBC News Magazine on the place of books in modern Britain. Asking the rhetorical question, “Do you need to read books to be ... [Link]

Bestseller Ideas

In this week’s interview, Dean Rotbart and Michael Drew discuss the likelihood of a book idea becoming a publishing success. In their discussion, they reveal how to identify whether your idea is bestseller material. Do you really have a sure-fire idea for a bestseller? Hear what they have to say . . . .

The Lessons of Harry Potter: A Beneath the Cover Podcast

Michael R. Drew discusses what all authors - even those writing non-fiction - can learn from the phenomenal success of the Harry Potter Series. More