Amazon

An Author's Garden in August

Rosemary Morris — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:52:22 -0400

An Author’s Garden in August
read more »

Zemanta Making Life Easy For Bloggers

Sire — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:50:23 -0400

BookLocker Files Antitrust Action Against Amazon

Trick Falls — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:27:45 -0400

BookLocker.com has filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com in response to Amazon’s recent attempts to force all publishers using Print on Demand (POD) technology to pay Amazon to print their books. You can read the complaint here. read more »

AMAZON.COM TURNS PREDATORY

Nick Oliva — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:39:22 -0400

This is a post from one of my writer's groups from JD Webb:

This is from Authors Guild written to members about Amazon.com's recent action: read more »

Amazon's "Inside the Book" Program

litekepr — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:30:35 -0500

If anyone would like some information about how to utilize the "Inside the Book" program on Amazon, you can take a look at my article in the Write Words newsletter - this is the link - http://www.ebooksonthe.net/news.html. read more »

An Online Alternative to Amazon

Trick Falls — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:56:07 -0500

As always, I don't like seeing independent bookstores falling on hard times.

I can't remember the last time I was in Austin, Texas, where BookWoman--one of only twelve independent women's bookstores in the country--is struggling to stay alive. read more »

Amazon's Kindle - Are you ready for an electronic book reader?

Trick Falls — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:57:21 -0500

When Amazon.com announced its Kindle electronic book reader, two large camps of people appeared out of the woodwork. One camp praised the device with for it's paper-styled screen and ease of use. And one camp started listing the problems with it, calling it outmoded and doomed to begin with. read more »

Where do you buy your books?

Trick Falls — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:07:36 -0500

Village Books - Sign of the Times read more »

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Trick Falls — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:04:28 -0400

If you're an unpublished author and have a novel just about done, consider the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.

The deadline is November 5. The winner will receive a contract from Penguin Group and a media suite from Hewlett-Packard.

For more information on the Amazon web site, click here. read more »

Happening Paperbacks - what's selling?

Trick Falls — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:55:50 -0400

What do you like in recent paperbacks and how are those books doing at Amazon and The New York Times? Bestseller lists vary. Amazon's list usually gets high marks since it's updated hourly. read more »