2 Comments It’s not that big of a surprise that there’s no single writer all we other writers can agree on as being great. But can we all agree on someone at least being not bad? Here’s 50 of the best author insults–all from other authors.
Maybe they’re trying to get copies of all the new twitter novels. Or maybe they’re concerned that historians of the future will want to know what condiments you just put on your deli sandwich. OMG.
Amazon has agreed to new deals with Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins. The agreements move away from Amazon’s $9.99 pricing model toward an agency model with variable, publisher-controlled pricing. Random House is the last big publisher without similar agreements with Amazon or Apple.
California Lawyer has an excellent, relatively unbiased, and very long write-up about the legal ramifications of the ongoing Google Books issue.
Thank io9.
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There was a change of the rules for the Man Booker Prize in 1971 which prevented any books published in 1970 from ever being eligible for the award. In case you missed it, they’re going retro. There’s a longlist of 22 books from 1970 that’ll be narrowed to a shortlist of six on March 25th. You’ll be able to vote online for your fave after the announcement. Who’s your frontrunner?
Good little write-up at Silicon Alley Insider about the conflict inside the New York Times. Digital group wants to charge $10/mo for the iPad edition of its content; the print group (which has traditionally had pricing control over digital editions, such as the Kindle version) wants to charge $30/mo.
To top it off, the web edition of the paper is already available for free through 2011.
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