Today’s post was inspired by a paper letter I received early last year from a company that was trying to convince me that I owed them...Continue reading
There’s an old joke in tech circles that the only reason that AOL was still profitable at the end was that the company was still receiving...Continue reading
This post is the third in our ongoing series about computer scams. Ugh, scammers. They are a persistent problem with no real solution (permanently discourage one...Continue reading
Vanity presses like Author Solutions will do everything they can to hide the fact they are running a scam. Smaller operations will change their name so...Continue reading
Update: This post was originally published in November 2017, and was updated in March 2018 to reflect S&S’s ongoing exploitation of authors. Of all the major...Continue reading
Publishing a book can get quite expensive. A good cover designer can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, and the editorial costs alone can set you...Continue reading
When Books-a-Million launched its self-pub division, BAM Publishing, in 2015, it outsourced the actual work to FastPencil, a respectable publishing services company. FatPencil was still the tech...Continue reading
The strangest case of scamming in the Kindle Store crossed my desk on Sunday, and I am still scratching my head. On Sunday several authors started...Continue reading
Yesterday’s story about the Nook Press platform has turned up a newsworthy detail about the platform which had so far gone unreported (I would also have missed...Continue reading
Packt Publishing was at one time one of the better technical publishers. They sell their ebooks DRM-free at reasonable prices and used to come highly recommended....Continue reading
Remember earlier this year when authors were being punished for putting a table of contents at the end of their ebooks? As David Gaughran inferred and Amazon...Continue reading
When Simon & Schuster revived the Star Trek: Strange New World Writing Contest last October, I was dismayed to learn that S&S was letting its vanity...Continue reading