Quick Updates for 2010-02-04
Resources and member news for John Scalzi and Jennifer Brozek!
SFWA Blog
SFWA removes Amazon.com links from website
Due to Amazon.com’s removal of many of our authors’ books from its ordering system, we are removing Amazon.com links from our website. Our authors depend on people buying their books and since a significant percentage of them publish through Macmillan or its subsidiaries, we would prefer to send traffic to stores where the books can […]
SFSignal and Book View Cafe Giveaway
SFSignal.com is giving away two copies of Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, a Book View Press anthology edited by Phyllis Irene Radford. The ebook consists of classic and favorite science fiction stories by Book View Cafe authors, never before gathered in a single collection. Contributors include: Vonda N. McIntyre, Brenda W. Clough, Katharine Kerr, […]
Quick Updates for 2010-02-03
@kellyswails Congratulations! That's great news. Here's the link to the application… http://www.sfwa.org/join-us/application-form/ in reply to kellyswails # One of @jenniferbrozek 's sories, "Nothing Left to Salvage," has been nominated for the 2010 Million Writers Award. http://bit.ly/bnSjCz #
Candidate For South-Central Regional Director: Lee Martindale
My name is Lee Martindale, and I’m running for South-Central Regional Director. Let’s begin with the obvious. Reorganizations are tough. SFWA is in a state of transition. The Board of Directors that begins its term on July 1, 2010 will lead the organization through that transition, and be the bridge between SFWA as it is […]
Quick Updates for 2010-02-02
SFWA member @scalzi talks about the public communications side of the Macmillan/Amazon affair. http://is.gd/7tr8B #
Dispatches from the Ebook Wars: Macmillan vs. Amazon
For some time, publishers and others have been concerned about Amazon’s policy of pricing ebooks at $9.99, regardless of the price tag publishers put on them. Many feel that Amazon’s discounted ebook pricing is an attempt to control and monopolize the ebook market by forcing a pricing standard. Some in the publishing industry have even called the practice predatory.
Quick Updates for 2010-02-01
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Tobias Buckell, Mary Robinette, Patrice Sarath and Kasey Mackenzie!
Amazon’s response to Macmillan
Conversation has swept through the internet, and science fiction and fantasy authors in particular, about Amazon’s decision to remove Macmillan titles from their stock after a disagreement about pricing.
Today, Amazon has posted a comment about their policy.
RIP: Kage Baker 1952-2010
Kage Baker
1952-2010
