At World Fantasy Convention I learned that the publishing industry is in a state of flux and chaos and that even traditional publishing house editors are becoming excited about the possibilities of eBooks.
Agency pricing will encourage competition in publishing in the long run and help start up many new publisher who will produce good quality and fairly priced eBooks.
Kindle e-books are now outselling all formats of paper books (combined) in the Amazon.co.uk store. I guess I better get to work on UK promotion.
Rumors of evil eBook authors abound at Ad-Astra. I debunk them, but I doubt I convinced anyone to drop their passion for the Big Six Publishers.
Ad-Astra seems to be very reluctant to use the word eBooks. Perhaps it's just style issue, but I'm worried that some of the anti-eBook sentiment that I sensed last year is still lingering around.
In the future, agents will simply troll through the Amazon Best Sellers Rank to find talent.
I'm using the library again and boycotting agency priced eBooks. Why? Because they are such a bad deal for authors.
Kodak waited far too long to truly embrace HD digital image capture, and the major publishers are waiting far too long before they will eventually be forced to truly embrace e-books rather than trying to sabotage them with high prices and lousy royalties.
Sometimes little birds speak to me at this blog. The latest nugget that dropped in my lap concerns the Writers Union of Canada, a great organization that provides its members with contract advice and more.
I'm at the Bloody Words Mystery Convention this weekend in lovely Victoria, and I've been surprised at how many authors, both newbies and established, have come to me asking about how to format and publish their e-books for Kindle and other platforms.