Christine Rose

Author: Christine Rose

  • Amazon’s KDP Select

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    Early last month, Amazon introduced their KDP Select Program for Kindle authors. This is a way to earn added royalties, use added promotional tools for your title, and get prime visibility on Amazon.com. Through KDP Select, Amazon Prime members can read any KDP Select Kindle eBook for free through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. From…

  • Zombies & Cogs

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    Olivia (O. M.) Grey’s two new titles are now available for purchase! Just in time for Christmas! First, Caught in the Cogs: An Eclectic Collection. In the midst of war, a beautiful young officer finds love aboard an airship… A woman steals away to fulfill her desire with a phantom lover… A group of thieves…

  • Guest Post: Editor-Phobia

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    The following is a guest post by Muffy Morrigan: In all the years I’ve been around the publishing business, the one thing I’ve noticed is many people have a fear of editors. The fear has become so great, in fact, that more and more people are not even calling editors “editors” but using “beta” instead.…

  • Podcast Hiatus

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    With impending deadlines and the approaching holidays, I’ve decided to take a hiatus from podcasting until the beginning of 2012. Until then, I should be able to keep up at least some of the other posts, but if not, I’ll be back in full form in 2012.

  • Guest Post: My Write App

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    The following is a guest post by Paul E. Cooley. For an author, e-books can be their own special kind of hell. They’re inexpensive to produce, should be inexpensive for the reader, and allow writers to include all sorts of contextual information that is impossible to duplicate in their paper brethren. However, who wants to…

  • Smashwords, LSI, and CS News

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    Just a few links to actual posts, seeing as how this is obviously not a real post. Smashwords to Start Accepting More eBook Formats in 2012 EXCERPT: Starting in 2012, Smashwords is going to allow everyone to submit other eBook files instead of the DOC file that is used as the source for Meatgrinder. This…

  • Kindle Cloud Reader

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    In the August 2011 Kindle KDP Newsletter, Amazon announced the Kindle Cloud Reader. He is what they have to say: On August 10th, Amazon.com announced Kindle Cloud Reader, its latest Kindle reading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers to read Kindle books instantly using only their web browser – online or offline – with…

  • Online vs. Paper Publishing

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    The following is a guest post by Anthony Garcia: From novels to newspapers, popular magazines to academic reports, more and more literature is showing up on our digital screens. The Association of American Publishers reported that in 2010, sales of e-books alone increased significantly on an annual basis, up +164.4% for 2010 vs. 2009. But…

  • Sleeping With the Enemy (Podcast)

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    Something new today: instead of talking about one of my former blog posts with additional commentary, I’ll be talking about a very interesting post by author Kiana Davenport, with additional commentary. The link to Ms. Davenport’s blog is below. I do have quite a few things to say about NY publishing after reading this post,…

  • Amazon Bypasses Publishers

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    Thanks to Twitter, where I get all my news, I found this little piece on Slashdot: “David Streitfeld reports that Amazon is aggressively wooing top authors, gnawing away at the services publishers, critics and agents used to provide. ‘Everyone’s afraid of Amazon,’ says Richard Curtis, a longtime agent who is also an e-book publisher. ‘The…