Category: Rants and Revelations
Review: So Many Books, Publishing in the Age of Abundance
So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid, Paul Dry Books – “Books are published at such a rapid rate that they make us exponentially more ignorant,” writes Gabriel Zaid in a little book titled, SO MANY BOOKS,
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Too Chinese for America, Too American for China
By Carol Van Den Hende When I was eight years old, my family moved to rural Maryland. I showed up...
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Two Reasons Why Some Readers are NOT Allowed to Post Reviews on Amazon!
So, your book has been published and your readers are (virtually) lined up for their coveted...
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PEN Journey 41: Berlin—Writing in a World Without Peace
By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | September 9, 2020 | 0 FacebookTwitterEmailShare PEN...
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Dare to Speak: A Reading List
by Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America My approach to free speech is that we need to think hard about...
Read MorePEN Journey 33: Senegal and Jamaica: PEN’s Reach to Old and New Centers
By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | June 30, 2020 PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve...
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Where Does It Hurt?
Guest post by Matthew Watrous My wife and I once worked in a locked dementia unit. When people are...
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Update, May 9, 2020: Breaking the Mental Freeze Over COVID-19
Breaking the Mental Freeze Over Covid-19 – Some things could become even more dangerous for Americans than COVID-19. The other monster is blind fear…When we turn on a few lights, some nightmares loosen their grip. What we all now desperately need is rational thought, clear perspectives, and a boatload of solace.
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AAP: A Call to Save American’s Bookstores
Rants and Revelations – In honor of World Book Day on April 23rd, it seems the right time to say this: we believe in books.
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Publishing With Amazon Kindle Self-Publishing Platform
(Editor’s note: Thanks to excellent feedback from our readers, I have clarified several...
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Is Amazon Kindle Cheating Self-Published Authors?
So, you are about to self-publish a book in e-book or print-on-demand format. It seems like a no-brainer to sign an exclusive contract with Amazon Kindle and up goes your book to Amazon’s vast online audience. After all, presumably they own 60 or 70% of the e-book market. This super-rich company has overall product revenues of more than $107 billion and more than 304 million active customer accounts worldwide. But are they playing fair with the average author dreaming of selling a million copies of his or her e-book?
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A Publishing Success Story at Age 83
Editor’s note: In 2003, we at Authorlink helped Graydon Dee Hubbard enhance his first book,...
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