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Guest: The publishers, not Amazon, keep authors down
2014-07-22 12:13:51| IT Services - Topix.net
Join book authors Frank Schaeffer and Peter Brown for an online live chat Wednesday at noon about the dispute between Amazon.com and Hachette and how it's affecting them.
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Amazon offers authors all e-book proceeds amid hachette dispute
2014-07-09 04:58:54| IT Services - Topix.net
Amazon.com is offering authors caught up in its dispute with Hachette Book Group all of the proceeds from the sale of any digital book, seeking to bypass the publisher and appeal directly to the writers.
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Why Superfreakonomics' authors are wrong on geo-engineering
2014-05-31 06:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Many commentators have already pointed out dozens of misquotes, misrepresentations and mistakes in the 'Global Cooling' chapter of the new book SuperFreakonomics by Ste[ph/v]ens Levitt and Dubner (see Joe Romm (parts I, II, III, IV, Stoat, Deltoid, UCS and Paul Krugman for details. Michael Tobis has a good piece on the difference between adaptation and geo-engineering). Unfortunately, Amazon has now turned off the 'search inside' function for this book, but you can read the relevant chapter for yourself...
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Amazon feud irks authors
2014-05-27 16:03:47| IT Services - Topix.net
If you're hoping to preorder books by J.K. Rowling, Michael Connelly, and other Hachette Book Group authors, you'll have to go somewhere besides Amazon.com.
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Hank Phillippi Ryan and other bestselling authors come to the Big Book Getaway
2014-02-20 11:56:12| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Hank Phillippi Ryan and her thrillers land regularly on the New York Times Bestseller lists, and that includes her latest, "The Wrong Girl."