Tag Archives: Amazon

The Sunny Side of Selling Out

Patrick Wensink goes deep into the heart of the Sub Pop catalog and surfaces with a pearl. Plus, Ohio. Continue reading

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Joel and the Giant Algorithm

Now the literary gatekeeper is a few thousand lines of code. Continue reading

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The Book War that Authors Already Lost

Amazon’s power move on Hachette is hardly unprecedented in the world of publishing, J.E. Fishman reports. Also not new: writers getting screwed. Continue reading

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Point/Counterpoint: Sean Beaudoin v. Jonathan Evison

Take a front row seat for this exciting, no-holds-barred game of style and wit, in which eight topics of the day are parsed, thrust, and parried as you listen to the intellectual steel clang! Continue reading

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