Thanks, Tina Hoggatt, for pointing this out: A sneak peak at some early favorites to win those BIG kidlit awards next year! For your preview, click here. And, at the very least, a great place to start your summer reading lists. Enjoy!
Pay for pages
Important information from Lois V. Harris: Sharing the beginning of a message from The Authors Guild...not good for children's authors...stay tuned for more on this from The Authors Guild. Starting July 1, Amazon will pay royalties to its indie authors based on the number of pages users actually read, rather than the number of times... Continue Reading →
Nina Laden addresses the Hachette/Amazon controversy
For those who may have missed it, member Nina Laden has a guest column in this past Sunday’s Seattle Times addressing the Hachette/Amazon controversy. Go Nina! —Contributed by Kjersten Hayes
Suzanne Selfors pens the Best Chapter Book of 2013!
Hot off the presses, here's some exciting news to savor! Suzanne Selfors announced that her new series, The Imaginary Veterinary, Book 1, The Sasquatch Escape, was just named by Amazon.com as the Best Chapter Book of 2013. Read the announcement here. Congratulations, Suzanne!
Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing
Thanks to Jim Whiting for sending this interesting article found in the New York Times. The article talks about how Amazon will be publishing books in both physical and e-book form and according to the article is encouraging writers to not go to Publishing Houses. Interesting read!
Amazon and the Industry
The Boston Review has an interesting article on the industry and Amazon. Here's a little snippet from the article.Today an estimated 75 percent of online book purchases in the United States are made through Amazon, and its overall market share in book sales is astonishingly high. Some publishers make more than half of their sales... Continue Reading →
Janet Lee Carey (one of our own SCBWI Western Washington members) sent this link to an article, written by Onnesha Roychoudhuri for the Boston Review, that lays out what Amazon is doing and what publishers are facing right now. To find out more about Janet's work visit her website.
The Amazon mess
Val Serdy sent this along:John Scalzi has a great post today about how the writers are getting screwed by the kerfuffle between Macmillan and Amazon. These writers are losing money, and potentially losing future book deals when their sales numbers come in lower during this quarter. He recommends going out and buying their books at... Continue Reading →
New Author Central features on Amazon
If you're published, you might want to check out the latest additions to Amazon's Author Central -- the ability to post videos and events on your author page. Author Central is still technically only in beta, and there are indeed a few glitches. For instance, if you try to enter events, you'll find that you're... Continue Reading →
Should you enter a writing contest?
A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the Amazon Breakthrough Contest and their new YA category. Well, today Nathan Bransford, literary agent at Curtis Brown, posted his advice about entering contests:"The absolute most important advice I can give you is this: read and understand the fine print.Know what you're entering. Know what happens... Continue Reading →