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Thoughts on Hachette, Amazon and the Missing Link

The news has been abuzz the past week or two over the Hachette/Amazon dispute.  The two are negotiating a contract, and Amazon, in what some are calling heavy-handed moves that hurts authors and consumers, has stopped stocking as many Hachette books (so customers have to wait 2-3 weeks for books to ship); stopped discounting Hachette […]

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Gatekeeping is Dead … and Other Book Festival Tidbits

I mentioned that over the weekend I attended the Virginia Festival of the Book. If you’re into books, authors or publishing in general, I’d definitely recommend you go in the future. The nice thing about the conference is it’s mostly free (there are some food-involving sessions–lunches and brunches– that require a fee, but the sessions

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