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Until you’ve been under the sea . . . A very nice piece on Alexandra Cousteau, Jacques Cousteau’s granddaughter, in the NYT this morning. Having dived quite a bit–including Ms. Cousteau’s favorite spot, Bonaire, (mine is the Great Barrier Reef…
So I was waiting until it became official before announcing, but since the announcement was posted today on PM and Egmont USA has drafted a release . . . I guess it’s official. Egmont USA has taken my YA dystopian…
This article is enough to make you weep. The topic’s like global warming; you feel helpless and angry and wonder how people can be so damn selfish as to believe that they’re the only important species on the planet.
I’ve gotten a couple comments from folks who say that the RSS feed doesn’t work in the Google Chrome Browser. My handy-dandy, trusty webmaster has looked into this–and indeed, this is an issue, though no one is sure why. According…
So I’ve been thinking a lot about what words are worth, considering all the brouhaha lately. Lurk on a bunch of forums and blogs, and everyone’s been weighing in on their buying habits, how much they’re willing to pay, whether…
http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/the-right-battle.html On the other hand, PW notes: Despite reports that the two parties were discussing ways to restore Macmillan’s buy buttons yesterday, customers were still unable to buy Macmillan titles directly from the Amazon site, including Winter Garden, the just…
More on the Amazon and Macmillan dust-up. Go, Macmillan! And Scott Westerfeld had a fabulous analysis of the whole deal on his blog, as does Tobias “Tobe” Buckell (and I love reading how he thinks about this; I agree a…
An open letter from Macmillan to its authors. Worth reading. Now, you readers need to get a little hot and bothered about this, too.
Okay, so this got my dander up. The idea that Amazon would pull a publisher’s books on the basis of a pricing dispute should sound a bunch of alarms. (The fact that a lot of my friends’ books are no…
Yet another attempt to push through drilling around the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. This is deeply disturbing, if only because it signals more weakening of this administration which has done very little to champion the environment. Considering this and the recent…