The technophobia, true and angry anti-technology, the complete fear of new things, shocked me at Word on the Street in
Got to love the guy. He'll be missed. A video to make you smile.
A panel at Digital Book World agrees with me. If you're going to indie-publish, the best genres to be in are romance, young adult, and new adult. My novels are new adult. Excellent.
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.
My take on the Guardian's claim that we're in a self-publishing bubble.
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.
There's a shift going on in publishing that publishers and agents should be discussing over their lattes in the boardrooms of Manhattan.
Promoting a novel through give-aways is a great idea, and with e-books it's relatively inexpensive, but I learned a lesson recently.
Amazon just gets faster everyday. Vampire Road is already available in the e-book store.