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Let’s Have Lunch
In republishing some of my articles I’ve been struck by how little has changed in the decade or two since they first saw the light of day. In some cases I’ve scarcely had to change a word. However, I’m...
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Of Taxes and the Writer
Early in April a few years ago I got a call from a client who was preparing his income tax. This author wrote erotic fiction and wanted to know whether he could legitimately claim as a deduction his...
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Are Editors Necessary? Part 1
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the decline of editing. These are fighting words. The problem with evaluating this allegation is that everything editors do today is invidiously compared to the...
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Are Editors Necessary? Part 2
(Continued from Are Editors Necessary? Part 1) The paternalistic treatment of authors by editors in earlier times, however, produced its own set of inequities, for publishers took advantage of many...
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My Life in Titles, or The Title Game, or Adventures of a Title Maven, or...
Among the immortal literary classics to be found on the bookshelves of every civilized person are such books as Trimalchio in West Egg, My Valley, Pumphre, and Tom-All-Alone’s the Ruined House. Do you...
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Brian Aldiss Reflects on The Squire Quartet
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Authors Guild Takes DOJ to Task for its Price-Fixing Suit Against Publishers
Paul Aiken, Executive Director of the Authors Guild, has issued an open letter to the chief of litigation in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, expressing its opposition to the DOJ’s...
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USA v. Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Penguin and Simon & Schuster
Case 1:12-cv-02826-UA Document 5 Filed 04/11/12 Page 1 of 22 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK _________________________________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,...
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E-Reads Acquires SF Grandmaster Brian Aldiss Backlist
Brian Aldiss (photograph (c) Mike Gerson E-Reads 171 East 74th Street New York, NY 10021 www.ereads.com January 17, 2012 For Immediate Release E-Reads Acquires Brian Aldiss Backlist E-Reads, a leading...
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Dave Duncan Quarrels with His Character – and Loses!
We asked Dave Duncan to write something for us about Lord of the Fire Lands, the middle novel in his King’s Blades trilogy. When he did he revealed a secret that many readers may find incomprehensible...
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85,000 Titles Strong, Smashwords Pitches the Agents
Smashwords Introduces Ebook Publishing and Distribution Service for Literary Agents Powerful, Proven Tools to Manage Ebook Publishing, Metadata, Distribution and Sales Reporting LOS GATOS, Calif.,...
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Specimen of Nondisclosure Agreement
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Kobo Press Release
PRESS RELEASE Rakuten to Acquire Kobo Kobo, a Global Leader in eReading Expands Rakuten Offering to Include eBooks and eReaders Worldwide TOKYO and TORONTO, November 8/9, 2011 — Rakuten, Inc. (JASDAQ:...
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An In-Depth Interview with John Norman
Early in the fall of 2011 we were contacted by a representative of Mystic Radio requesting a phone interview with John Norman. Mystic describes itself as “a small nonprofit radio station whose...
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Amazon’s Announcement of 47 North SciFi Imprint
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of 47North, the seventh imprint from Amazon Publishing, focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror. 47North launches with 15 books,...
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HarperCollins Announcement re Espresso Backlist Program
New York, NY, – In a first from a major trade publisher, HarperCollins Publishers today announced “Comprehensive Backlist.” This program will allow all physical bookstores, from the largest to the...
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The Two Worlds of Literature: What Serious Writers Can Learn from Genre...
When I went into the publishing business after graduating from college, I discovered a literary culture so lastly different from the ones I had studied that I could scarcely find any common ground...
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Megalawsuit filed by Guild
This afternoon, we filed suit against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan and four other universities over their storage and use of millions of copyright-protected books. The press release follows....
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Mariners of Gor – an Excerpt
From Mariners of Gor ****************** We plied our levers, at a ten-beat, which strong men can maintain for as much as an Ahn, and continued this beat for something like twenty Ehn, and then the...
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Publishing Spoken Here
Traduttore, Traditore (“The translator is a traitor”) – Italian proverb One of the critical roles literary agents play is that of translator. We perform the task on several levels. The most obvious and...
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