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Emily Paulsen, ASJA
 Do you hear that buzzing noise? That's the sound of writers talking about the upcoming ASJA regional conference in D.C. The conference is scheduled for Aug. 28, at the National Press Club. Just being at the Press Club is going to be so cool — it's a place rich in journalism history, as Tam Harbert pointed out in her post last week.
But the conference site is just the beginning. The D.C. Conference steering committee has designed to program to offer opportunities for both veteran freelancers as well as people making the switch to self-employment. And it's got people talking!
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Writer's Digest
Author Tracey Barnes Priestley writes: "Pitching was new territory for me. Fortunately, researching a topic was not. I explored every aspect of drafting a pitch and discovered a wealth of helpful information. I devoured articles and attended a worthwhile pitching workshop. After writing and rewriting what I planned to say, I felt ready to pitch my novel to agents at a major California writing conference."
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Digital Book World
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the 2013 ruling of Judge Denise Cote that found Apple guilty of conspiring with leading trade publishers to fix the price of ebooks, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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io9
To self-publish or not to self-publish … That is the question more and more aspiring authors are asking themselves these days. And with good reason — self-publishing has come a long way in the decade since it really hit the market and many of the blatant scams of the past have been outed by an increasingly well-informed author community.
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Southern Writers Magazine
Author Ken Oder, writes: "In 1986, a prison guard ushered me into a maximum-security visitation room divided by a pane of glass with desks on each side and telephones bolted to cinderblock walls. I sat down and waited. The barred door on the other side rolled open."
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The Guardian
Self-published authors could be paid as little as $0.006 per page read under new rules planned by Amazon. Writers who make their works available through Amazon’s Kindle Owners Lending Library, and a similar service called Kindle Unlimited, will no longer be paid per copy downloaded following a recent move.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
We have seen it before, with bonobos and monkeys and parrots and dogs and cows and dolphins. Even bats. Heaven knows how many beasts of the field and birds of the air have been the subjects of irresponsible science journalism claiming that animal behavior reveals how human language originated, or (more commonly) that they use language just like humans.
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Publishers Weekly
The growing complexity of international book publishing is reflected in this year’s ranking of the world’s largest publishers. While Pearson once again maintained its top spot as the world’s biggest publisher, currency fluctuations, consolidations, the digital transition, and the emergence of China all played a part in altering the makeup of the companies that hit the Livres Hebdo/Publishers Weekly annual global ranking.
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