TaleSpinner: Cory Doctorow On Giving Away E-Books
12 Dec
Posted by Raj Dash as Writing career, Authors, Featured
Boing Boing co-founder and science fiction novelist Cory Doctorow wrote in Forbes recently about how giving away free e-books has actually helped him get sales. It might seem a contradiction, but read his explanation to understand why it actually works.
It makes a great deal of sense, and I plan to give away my own “speculative […]
Marianne Richmond: One Million Books Sold
12 Nov
Posted by Raj Dash as Writing career, Authors, Milestones
Illustrator Marianne Richmond has joined an elite club upon the sale of the one millionth copy of one of her books. Compare this with common figure of less than 99 copies for a given book. Very few books get a print run of over 2 or 3,000 copies, let alone sell in the thousands or […]
Amit has a post about a new device called the LongPen. The device appears
The first author to use the device is well-known Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The idea stemmed from her realization one day that touring was getting tiresome. According to the website, her subsequent conversations with some people led to the LongPen (see Unotchit).
While […]
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