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The Business Rusch: The End of The World as We Know It

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing , 50 Shades of Grey, Agents, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Authors Guild, Barnes & Noble, Book Expo America, Borders, Bowker, Department of Justice, EL James, Fantasy, Forbes, genre fiction, independent booksellers, indie publishing, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Paid Content, Publishers, Publishers Lunch, Romance, Ruby White, science fiction, Scott Turow, Smashwords, Steve Wasserman, The Nation, The New Yorker, traditional publishing, You've Got Mail | 128 Comments »

If you read mainstream publishing news, like I do, occasionally your head will explode. Or you’ll run around in a panic, turning into one of those long-haired barefoot New Yorker cartoon characters, carrying a sign saying that the world is about to end. For many in traditional publishing, the world is ending. Their clout is [...]

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The Business Rusch: Writers And The DOJ Lawsuit

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing , accounting, anti-trust, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Charles Petit, civil law, court cases, Dana Blankenhorn, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, indie publishing, John Sargent, journalists, lawyers, MacMillan, Michael Cader, Microsoft, Most Favored Nation, NBC Nightly News, Penguin Group, pricing, Publishers Lunch, Richard Alan Dickson, royalty statements, Seeking Alpha, Simon & Schuster, stock prices, traditional publishers, United States Justice Department | 56 Comments »

The Business Rusch: Writers and The DOJ Lawsuit Kristine Kathryn Rusch This week, the Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Apple and five publishers. Three publishers settled immediately with two, as of this writing, going forward—Penguin and MacMillan. I am not a lawyer, so I cannot comment on the filing. A few have, including [...]

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The Business Rusch: The Old Stone Path

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, On Writing , Agents, Amazon, Amazon lending library, Amazon Prime, Association of Authors' Representatives, Craig Ferguson, ebooks, Edgar Award, Entertainment Weekly, International Thriller Writers, J.K. Rowling, Lawrence Block, Mystery Writers of America, Publishers Lunch, publishing, Science Fiction Writers of America, Simon Lipskar, Stephen King, The Late Late Show, Thriller Award, traditional publishing, William Goldman, writing | 46 Comments »

The Business Rusch: The Old Stone Path Kristine Kathryn Rusch Once upon a time in a land not so far away, publishing made sense. Okay, it didn’t exactly make sense, but there was a set way to do things. For writers, it was pretty easy. We wrote something, and mailed it to an editor who [...]

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