Category: DeBunking

On Tuesday The Guardian engaged in the book world's favorite past time. No, not ebook-bashing. No, not baseless Amazon fear-mongering. (Let me try this again.) On Tuesday The Guardian...

If there's one constant in the news industry it's that there's no end to bad coverage on any given topic, including ebooks. Sometimes the bad reporting is the result...

Q: When is an outrage not an outrage? A When the publisher screws up, and hands reviewers a book that wasn't ready. The hot story this week in the...

Sorry to keep beating an old drum, but a new survey report on author incomes was released late last week, and it is just as useless as the previous...

It has come to my attention that there is still some doubt as to whether a certain blog has a reputation for being less than reliable with its reporting...

When I wrote about a recent survey of Canadian author income last week, I pointed out that this type of report is almost always flawed in that the survey...

One of the favorite pastimes of the publishing community is sharing author income survey reports, and wringing hands over the results. The reports are usually bullshit for various reasons (more...

Remember a few weeks back when I mocked Publishers Weekly for using AAP revenue stats to ask the question why fiction sales were down? (It was in a Morning...

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...

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...

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...