The Authors Guild has launched a website, WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com, “which allows authors to keep track of whether Amazon has removed buy buttons from any of their books.” Although we’ve launched WhoMovedMyBuyButton.com in response to Amazon’s wholesale removal of buy buttons from Macmillan titles, we believe Amazon should be monitored for years to come. Amazon’s developed quite…Continue reading Who Moved My Buy Button?
Category: Ephemera
A note to readers, regarding Amazon
I have long used the Amazon widget on this page because it offers the cleanest graphics and is the easiest way to create a linked, text-enriched slideshow of one’s books–capabilities which, unfortunately, are not yet available to authors through indiebound. For the moment, however, the Amazon widget has been removed from this page as I…Continue reading A note to readers, regarding Amazon
Three leaders of the women’s rights movement in Haiti–Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan–died in last week’s earthquake. Read the story here. Merlet, who fled Haiti in the 70s and returned in teh 80s, described the challenges facing women in her homeland in an essay for the anthology Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s…Continue reading
Do you Kindle? Do you Nook?
I still love the brick-and-mortar stores, especially in the Bay Area, where we’re blessed with amazing independents. Personal preference aside, however, I do believe that, in the next couple of years, e-books will take over a huge share of the market. One thing paperbacks currently have going for them in the book vs. Kindle debate…Continue reading Do you Kindle? Do you Nook?
No One You Know in Germany
I just saw the cover for the German translation of No One You Know, which will be published by Diana (Random House Germany) in June. I think it coincides nicely with the German edition of The Year of Fog. I love it when covers of books by the same author have a certain continuity, as…Continue reading No One You Know in Germany