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The Business Rusch: Watching The Numbers

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, bestseller, Bill Gates, Camille LaGuire, ebooks, English Proficiency Chart, Harlequin, Hitler's Angel, IBM, indie publishing, iPhone, J.A. Konrath, Jack Williamson, John Grisham, Kevin J. Anderson, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kobo, Kurt Eichenwald, Microsoft, midlist, Paul Allen, Publishers Weekly, Sears, Stephen King, Torstar, traditional publishing, Vanity Fair | 189 Comments »

I should never read the comments on other people’s writing information blogs. The comments discourage me, generally for one of two reasons. If the blog is about traditional publishing, and the authors are traditionally published only with no desire to change, I get discouraged at the amount of misinformation. If the blog is about indie [...]

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The Business Rusch: Content is King

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amazon, Andrew Heyward, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Business Rusch, Entertainment Weekly, iBookstore, Kindle Select, Mad Men, Nokia, Nook, publishing, Samsung, The Washington Post, Toys R Us, WMG Publishing, writing | 81 Comments »

This week came the news that Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program will offer its content providers a 70% royalty on all sales made in India—provided the content providers go with Kindle Select only. For those of you who don’t know, Kindle Select requires exclusivity from anyone who joins it. You can’t market your work on [...]

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The Business Rusch: The Changing Definition of Publishing

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The Business Rusch: The Changing Definition of Publishing Kristine Kathryn Rusch This week, the announcements for the Pulitzer Prize shocked the publishing world because, for some reason, the Pulitzer board declined to chose a winner from the three fiction nominees. Lost in the controversy (besides the hurt feelings of the fiction nominees and the fact [...]

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