The Elysian: No one buys books by Elle Griffin

 The Elysian: No one buys books by ELLE GRIFFIN

Rights Grabs

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has another excellent post up on her blog that pertains to the business of writing. Her piece is on the various ways publishers are trying to grab more rights. You can read it here and you should.

Interesting Reading Elsewhere--Kent's Rants

First, if you are not reading mystery author William Kent Krueger, you should be.

Second, you ought to read his recent post "The B&N Ban." You can read it here. Basically, it seems the ongoing feud between Simon and Schuster and Barnes and Noble has reached epic stupidity as Simon and Schuster authors can't do book events at the stores and their books are not being ordered.

While the heavy weights slap each other silly, the authors involved and potential customers suffer. And you know who the real winner is in all this crap--Amazon. One would think those in charge at Barnes and Noble would have bigger things to think about --like saving the company--then being stupid like this.

Just makes one want to pull the car over and scream at the offspring in the back seat.

A little too real

and maybe why more and more authors are calling themselves "indie" and  going the self publishing road....

Iinteresting Reading Elsewhere---Books Coilumn at NYTat

In an interesting piece titled "Orders Cut, as Publisher and Retailer Quarrel" reporter Leslie Kaufman chronicles an escalating battle between Simon and Schuster and Barnes and Noble. The piece is here.

Considering both sides have serious economic issues, this seems very stupid in my opinion. Once again the small authors will suffer while the big boys fight. The only outcome of this will be to encourage most authors to self publish through Amazon and other platforms.