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BookTango: Author Solutions Rolls Out Ebook Distribution Services

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Just introduced from self-publishing conglomerate Author Solutions (owner of the iUniverse, Xlibris, AuthorHouse, and Trafford brands, and the power behin...

2 h ago

Publishers Desk: Display or Misplay?

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Over the past few months, Ive gotten a number of questions from writers whove received spam--excuse me, invitations from a website called Publishers Desk....

6 days ago

The Authors Guild on Amazon: Publishings Ecosystem on the Brink

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware This article from the Authors Guild was posted Tuesday on the Authors Guild blog. Its a must-read for anyone interested in the ways in which the book busi...

02 feb 12

Guest Post: One Authors First Month in KDP Select

Last December, I blogged about Amazons KDP Select program, which allows KDP authors to participate in Amazons Kindle Owners Lending Library and be paid per borrow from a fund established by Amazon. T...

27 jan 12

Delmont-Ross Writing Contest: The Saga of a Fake Literary Competition

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware A little while back, I stumbled on a news story about Mitchell Gross, a Georgia man who was recently indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire f...

25 jan 12

The Fine Print of iBooks Author

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Yesterday, with great fanfare, Apple rolled out two new applications:  iBooks 2, with new features aimed at students; and iBooks Author, which allows...

20 jan 12

Digital Rights Showdown: HarperCollins v. Open Road

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist--both for publishers who hold th...

17 jan 12

BookStoreMarketin g.net: Beware Spam PR Services

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Recently Ive gotten a number of questions about BookStoreMarketing.net, a service that promises to promote authors books to bookstores via a printed catal...

11 jan 12

2011: A Writer Beware Retrospective

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As we begin the new year (Writer Bewares fourteenth!), heres a look back at some of Writer Bewares most notable posts and warnings from 2011.  JANUAR...

03 jan 12

Happy Holidays From Writer Beware

Because even watchdogs have to rest sometimes, the Writer Beware blog will be taking a break over the holiday season. Unless theres a really juicy publishing story, well be on hiatus until the new ye...

23 dec 11

D Publishing: Dymocks New Self-Pub Service

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last week, Dymocks, an Australian bookselling chain, announced the launch of D Publishing, a electronic and POD self-publishing service. Like Amazon and B...

21 dec 11

Publisher Alert: Arvo Basim Yayin of Turkey

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware A couple of weeks ago, I began hearing from self-published and small press authors whod been approached over the summer by a Turkish publisher called Arvo...

19 dec 11

Pearson Education Extends Scope of Permissions Licenses

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Writer Beware has learned that Pearson Education, a major education services company (and the parent company of trade publisher Penguin), is currently req...

13 dec 11

The Fine Print of Amazons New KDP Select Program

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Almost since Amazons controversial Kindle Owners Lending Library--which allows Amazon Prime members to borrow selected ebooks for free--debuted, there hav...

08 dec 11

Guest Blog Post: A Blast From the Past--Thieving "Literary Agent" Uwe Luserke Re-Surfaces

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Every time I look at Writer Bewares bulging file drawers, and wonder whether I should get rid of files for agents and publishers that have gone silent (or...

06 dec 11

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: How Relying on Numbers Can Get You Into Trouble

 Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Today I saw the following statement used as justification for choosing a fee-based publisher that charges its authors nearly $4,000, and actively pr...

29 nov 11

MLM for Writers: The Best Authors Lounge

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Writers: Forget about that boring day job. Forget about tedious book promotion. Heck, forget about writing books! Theres another way to make money--and it...

25 nov 11

Book Country And Self-Publishing: Why the Hate?

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last week, Penguin subsidiary Book Country--a digital slush pile/peer critique community with a focus on genre fiction--announced that it was adding self-...

23 nov 11

The Brit Writers Awards: Questions and Threats

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last December, I blogged about the Brit Writers Awards, an awards program for first-time authors, which was dogged by allegations of loose judging standar...

21 nov 11

Alert: Light Sword Publishing, a.k.a. LSP Digital, Returns

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware In July of 2008, I blogged about Light Sword Publishing, a.k.a. LSP Digital, about which Writer Beware had received a substantial number of complaints (de...

18 nov 11

The Authors Guild on Amazons Kindle Lending Library

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Two weeks ago, Amazon announced its brand-new Kindle Owners Lending Library, which makes it possible for Amazon Prime members to borrow ebooks for free. M...

15 nov 11

Introducing Writer Bewares Small Presses Page

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware A brand-new page on Small Presses has been added to the Writer Beware website. Heres what youll find: An overview of issues to consider if youre thinking ...

11 nov 11

Beware Zombies: Franklin-Madison Literary Agency

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Im writing this in my local Panera, which is one of the few places where I can power my computer just now. Here in Massachusetts, we are still suffering t...

02 nov 11

Guest Blog Post: Copyright Is People

by Michael Capobianco Recently, a consortium of university libraries called HathiTrust decided to make more than one hundred digitized books available as e-books to the universities’ communities beca...

28 oct 11

A Small Press Implodes: The Inside Story of Aspen Mountain Press

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware A month ago, I blogged about the troubles at Aspen Mountain Press, whose authors report nonpayment of royalties, contract breaches, delayed publication sc...

25 oct 11

Guest Blog Post: Fitzhenry and Whiteside--Writer Beware

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Todays guest post by multi-published author Doranna Durgin is about a publisher behaving badly. More than that, however, it highlights something that ever...

18 oct 11

Alerts: Lobster Press and Dailey Swan Publishing

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware LOBSTER PRESS For some time, thereve been rumors of financial trouble at Canadian childrens publisher Lobster Press. Those rumors were recently confirmed ...

13 oct 11

Writers Against Plagiarism: A Call to Action

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Its been a year since I first blogged about serial plagiarist "Iron" Dave Boyer (among many other names), whose prolific pilfering of other writer...

11 oct 11

The Agenda of "The Write Agenda"

Posted by Ann Crispin and Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Some of you may be aware that for the past few months, a group calling itself The Write Agenda has been attempting to wage a disinformatio...

08 oct 11

Bad Publishing Contract Clauses, Part 1

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware  I get a lot of questions about publishing contracts, and many requests to review them. Im not a lawyer, but I do have a fair knowledge of publishing...

29 sep 11

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