Howdy, Writers! It’s been a while, so I thought I’d do the re-entry to my blog through a round up. Hang onto your hats, because this one will cover some of the bigger things that have been influencing the writing world lately – Hugh Howey and Barnes & Noble and Anne Rice, oh my! Hugh Howey and AuthorEarnings.com – So most people are aware of self-publishing’s resident flag bearer, Hugh Howey with his mega success in the publishing world and the one to tilt his proverbial pen at the traditional publishing world. With the help of another writer and a spider program that searches through Amazon’s numbers, he has started http://www.authorearnings.com and broken down some statistics to show that some of the best earners…
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Recently, Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool and the newly released Dust, wrote a blog post titled “Wikify Me” on his website. In it, he expresses an idea of a possible new feature for e-readers and digital books that would allow a reader to mark mistakes they find in a book’s text and what an author could do with the marked passages in order to immediately make improvements on the work. As Howey puts it, “By marrying Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature and cloud storage, we would get the wikified e-book.” Track Changes within Microsoft’s Word allows for someone to suggest a change, add comments, and the author of the work to accept or reject those changes. It is a common tool used by editors.…
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Tagged: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-book, Hugh Howey, Wool
Books in the digital world are getting a new venue and way of access. There’s been much buzz about Oyster, which is being touted as the “Netflix” of books. Currently taking requests for initial invitations, it is only being offered to iPhone users. However, the potential seems big as Oyster cashes in on the mobility of digital books as it differs from other e-book subscription services. The subscription model has proven to work well for film and television with services like Netflix and Hulu growing. According to Digital Book World, Oyster’s subscription model has over 100,000 titles available from publishers like HarperCollins and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that can be accessed for just $9.95 per month on up to six devices. The fact that it’s…
Tagged: Amazon, Book Subscription Service, E-book, eReatah, Oyster, Smashwords
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