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Slate
Amazon has come up with a new way to pay authors for the e-books they self-publish, and almost everyone agrees it's a dumb idea.
Almost everyone is wrong.
As the Atlantic explained, Amazon's plan is to start divvying up author royalties for certain types of Kindle e-books based on the number of pages people read, rather than the number of titles they download.
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Nieman Lab
The late April news was impressive and divisive: Google would spend €150 million on a new Digital News Initiative ) partnership with European news publishers. The amount of money caught the eye, even if it was a tiny fraction of Google's $14.4 billion profit in 2014. Still, to newspaper publishers now counting every dime, it appeared to be a significant pot of funds.
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GWA
For more than 25 years, the GWA has conducted an annual awards program for talent and products published or aired in the field of garden communications. We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 GWA Silver Garden Media Awards of Achievement.
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GWA
The Association Outreach Task Force will host a booth at Cultivate'15 in Columbus, Ohio, on July 12-14. To learn how GWA will be promoting members at Cultivate'15 or to volunteer, please review the schedule of events online.
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GWA
Need travel advice from locals? Looking for a roommate? Stay up to date on developments for the 2015 GWA symposium. Join the "GWA Loves L.A. 2015" Facebook page.
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GWA
Employers seeking job applicants may list full-time, part-time and freelance openings at no cost. Post your communications-related job opening here. Details.
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GWA
The Garden Writers Association Foundation sponsors Plant A Row for the Hungry, a communications program encouraging individual gardeners, companies and community gardens to donate fresh vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers to food agencies and/or soup kitchens to help feed those in need. Follow some basic steps to create a Plant A Row program in your area. We will help you get started.
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Reuters
Barnes & Noble Inc reported a fall in sales for the fourth consecutive quarter as demand for the company's Nook tablets continued to fall and customers stayed away from its brick-and-mortar bookstores.
Stiff competition from online retailers such as Amazon.com Inc and a shift toward reading e-books on devices such as Amazon's Kindle and tablets has hurt sales at Barnes & Noble's bookstores.
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FutureBook
Publishing has a new question to ponder this week: What could Taylor Swift do for us? Swift's triumph: she got a tech giant to change its mind.
In an open letter to Apple, Swift said she was withholding the record, 1989, from Apple's new music streaming service, Apple Music, because she was unhappy with the three-month free trial offered to subscribers.
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Electric Lit
How are bookstores and video stores similar?
I am probably asked that question more than anyone else in the known universe, because I work in a bookstore, and I also recently published a novel set in a struggling video store.
I have pat answers prepared. But it's the subtext of the question I find most interesting. What people are really asking is, "Isn't it sad how bookstores are going the way of video stores," that is, off this mortal coil?
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Slate
Another spring book season has come to pass, and with it another set of factual mini-scandals. Earlier this month, the New York Post found major inaccuracies in Primates of Park Avenue, Wednesday Martin's "study" of Upper East Siders and their wife bonuses, prompting Simon & Schuster to slap a quick disclaimer onto its best-seller. A Salon.com writer found that a key statistic in David Brooks's The Road to Character was badly mangled and wrongly sourced.
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Wired
Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit. It's not about a timeline. It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary. It's about a single question, the one you see when you first load twitter.com: "What's happening?"
Yet Twitter, as it has existed until now, has done a terrible job of both asking and answering that most central question.
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Tech Crunch
By John Biggs: I've gone all in with the Indie publishing movement — I've released three books myself and I've done relatively well with all of them. But the fact still remains that the entire business of books is stacked against the Indie author. While the tools are far simpler than they have ever been, the perception that an Indie book is an inferior product, at least in the eyes of established media, is strong. But that's about to change.
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