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Cover to Cover #470: Amazon vs Hachette, or Authors Are Doing It For Themselves

June 30, 2014 1 Comment

Mike and Mike talk more about the fight between Amazon and Hachette, continuing from Show 468 and including comments from your feedback via Facebook.

They talk more about how different authors are taking sides, how the monies are being distributed differently now than before, the different options available to authors (with publishers and going self-published) and things authors should be doing to sell their books and sell themselves.   [Read more...]

Dragon Page Notes

As of December 2014, The Dragon Page is closed. No more episodes of “Cover to Cover”, no more book reviews.

For those seeking more podcast options featuring only topics on reading and writing SF genre literature, we highly recommend Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace’s Ditch Diggers and Writing Excuses featuring Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal and Howard Tayler.

There will also continue to be related non-fiction genre and science book reviews and coverage at Slice of SciFi.

Thank you all for your opinions, conversations, contributions and support over the years.

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