DeBunking

A Million Indie Titles Were Published Last Year, and Other Nonsense

12 October, 2018 // 6 Comments

There are two frequently repeated misconceptions about the ebook market that continue to be repeated no matter how often they are debunked. The first is that AAP publisher ebook revenue is the sum of [Read More ...]

How to Misuse Stats and Cite Bogus Projections, and Make the Publishing Industry Love You

24 August, 2018 // 12 Comments

Another one of those "ebooks didn't kill print" is being passed around again, and this one is far worse than the dreck we have been seeing about every five months for the past six years. Strategy [Read More ...]

Millennial Reading Habits Have Changed the Definition of a Classic , and Other Lazy Writing

13 August, 2018 // 13 Comments

Millennial-bashing is popular among the media, and this is a problem not just because it's lazy writing but also because sometimes it distracts from what is actually going on. Quartz, for example, [Read More ...]

Republican Congressional Candidate Shamed for Allegedly Writing Bigfoot Erotica

30 July, 2018 // 6 Comments

The 2018 election cycle has taken a turn for the obnoxious. There's a story going around that the candidate for a Congressional district in central Virginia has written about Bigfoot. However, I've [Read More ...]

Forbes Deleted That Ridiculous Anti-Library Piece

24 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

On Saturday Forbes published a poorly-researched, badly-argued piece that failed to convince anyone that Amazon Books stores should replace public libraries. According to Quartz, the piece was [Read More ...]

Updated: Amazon Books Should Replace Local Libraries, and Other Publisher-Serving “Solutions”

22 July, 2018 // 14 Comments

Do you know how companies sometimes like to buy editorials that support their position (I see this a lot in the WSJ), or even go so far as to fund think tanks to produce position papers to order? I [Read More ...]

Amazon Claims to Accurately Measure Pages Read in Kindle Unlimited, Neglects to Mention There’s no Standard Page Size

19 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

Earlier this week Amazon released a statement tangential to the ongoing problem of cheating in Kindle Unlimited, but as with many of Amazon's statements the bigger story is what was left unsaid. To [Read More ...]

Authors, Don’t Be Taken in by the Blockchain/Bitcoin Hype

4 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

If you have been following tech news then you've probably heard the term blockchain mentioned more than once. This word is rarely explained in non-technical terms, but it is thrown around a lot by [Read More ...]

Cockygate: Faleena Hopkins Has Registered a Trademark on Cocky, and is Using it to Threaten Other Romance Authors

5 May, 2018 // 81 Comments

Trademark bullying is a pox on industries ranging from breweries to whatever over-priced junk Monster Cable is making this week. A trademark bully's ostensible goal is to keep consumers from getting [Read More ...]

Amazon to Spend a Billion Dollars to License “The Three-Body Problem”?

28 March, 2018 // 9 Comments

The Three-Body Problem is one of those books that many people have heard of but few have read. Originally published in Chinese, the English translation of this SF novel won a Hugo in 2015. Now the [Read More ...]

Major UK Booksellers Throw Up Their Hands When Accused of Selling Far-Right Titles

21 March, 2018 // 5 Comments

Remember last year when everyone wrung their hands over Amazon selling Holocaust denial books and completely ignored the fact that you could find those same books in just about every other [Read More ...]

If eReaders Are Dead Then So Are Film Cameras. And Horse Riding. And Fountain Pens. And Digital Cameras. And Lots of Other Stuff

27 February, 2018 // 11 Comments

Last week Tom's Hardware published a piece which used flawed assumptions to ask whether the ereader was dead: Yes, reading now is a little bit different than it was even a decade ago. While print [Read More ...]

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