Look out Sony e-reader, Nook and Kobo, because Amazon announced this week that Kindles are now on display and available for purchase at 3,200 Walmart stores.
Genre fiction is selling so well on Kindle that Amazon is stepping further into the publishing roll. They've opened up an imprint, Montlake Romance, that will publish everything from paranormal romance to suspense romance.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about how self-pubbed e-books are totally upending the e-book market. My favourite
Fogel and I have been debating how e-books will affect freelance editors. I'm guessing that people who want to indie e-publish will be swamping freelancers in-boxes with edit requests.
I can't wait to see Priest, because I'm pretty sure that the movie's high-tech take on vampire fighting is very different from my post-apocalyptic novel where gunpowder is so scarce that people carry swords and cross bows as supplementary weapons.
But speaking of published: the second story I ever had published, Beer Truck, is now available for Kindle. Take it for a spin, but keep in mind that the story is about people doing very dumb things, taking chances so huge that a Darwin award is but one slippery grip away. Don't try this at home.
It seems the Charlie Sheen school of publicity has hit the indie publishing scene in a big way. Author Jacqueline Howett took great exception to book blogger Big Al's review of her indie novel.
Less than a week after Barry Eilser walked away from a $500,000 dollar contract with St Martin's Press so that he could self-publish his next novel, Amanda Hocking, the self-publishing star who has sold over 2 million copies of her e-books, has signed a seven figure deal with St. Martins for her next four novels.
Eisler is joining a growing number of authors who are walking away from legacy publishers.
I prefer not to simply publish links to other people's content on this blog, but this warning from Amanda Hocking