March 12, 2013

A Daily Telegraph story reports that Amazon is cutting royalties for self-published works priced above $9.99. The current royalty rate is 70% of all sales, so long as the price… Read more »

Amazon

Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only — Bryn Goldstein
"BoxedOut" campaign to warn customers of costs of shopping on Amazon this season — Ryan Harrington
What are the other options for those who think GoodReads “sucks” and is “just shy of unbearable”? — Athena Bryan
California and Washington enter Amazon investigation — Andy Dion

The 57 OTHER new domains being registered by Amazon

Dustin Kurtz

As we reported yesterday, publishers and other organizations like Bowker have continued to strike back against Amazon’s efforts to claim exclusive use of new top-level domains being offered by ICANN.… Read more »

News Corp’s new publishing arm to start life with a big pot of money

Ariel Bogle

Despite the split between News Corps.’s more valuable entertainment division, now called Fox Group Inc., and the print arm, the old media interests will nevertheless start their new life with some… Read more »

Lambda Awards finalists announced

Nick Davies

The Lambda Literary Foundation announced its nominations last week for the Lambda Literary Awards, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary of recognizing the best and most notable LGBT writing of the year.… Read more »

Celine, as it turns out, was against not only Jews

Dennis Johnson

One of France’s greatest writers of the 20th century, and one of its most anti-Semitic, Louis-Fernand Celine, who was also a Holocaust denier, gives a wild-haired, late-in-life interview on French… Read more »

Melville House Books

Amazon kills 70% royalties for authors who won’t play ball on pricing

Kirsten Reach