Will Amazon destroy the Indy-Publishing Industry?

Mar 30, 2008 12:00 AM

If you are like most people in America, you’ve probably never heard of two of the companies I’m about to write about: Ingram and Lightning Source.  But, somehow, I’m sure you’ve heard of Amazon (least not from me tirelessly pitching book sales over there).  If that’s the case, you might be a little puzzled by my statement that Amazon has now decided to go to war against the small and micro-publishing industry. If they succeed in what they’re pushing, then it might well spell the death of indy-publishing in this country.

Get Republic by December 23 and win a $150 gift!

Nov 15, 2007 11:25 AM

The holidays are approaching, and you can get yourself a nice gift: a $150 gift certificate for iTunes or Amazon.com!

Amazon forums

Jun 29, 2007 03:59 PM

I started to post a comment in reply to a post over at Steve Weber's blog, about promoting books on Amazon's customer forums page. But the comment got longer, and decided to go ahead and post it as an entry.

Amazon Reviews are back

May 12, 2007 09:03 AM

About a week ago, for the second time this year, all of the customer reviews of Prayer at Rumayla disappeared from Amazon.com. This is actually pretty crippling -- the book had very good customer reviews, and when they vanished, my sales rank plummeted. So, the good news is, they're back.

Traveling this week

Apr 25, 2007 09:33 PM

I'm in Washington, DC all day Wednesday and Thursday, so probably won't post much new. There's is an interesting discussion about whether or not people pay attention to book reviews over at Nathan Bransford's blog. Nathan is a literary agent with Curtis Brown, and is rapidly becoming one of my daily reads.