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Open Letter to Amazon Gains Support of Best-Selling Authors

By Barbara Payne

July 30, 2014 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

Open Letter to Amazon Gains Support of Best-Selling Authors

While this year’s Fourth of July fireworks displays around the country were bold and beautiful, the fireworks between online retail giant Amazon.com and long-standing book publisher Hachette were anything but. Over the holiday weekend, support for Authors Guild Council Member Douglas Preston’s open letter to Amazon hit 300 signatures, with big names like Stephen King, […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: amazon, author compensation, Authors Guild, Douglas Preston, eBooks, Hachette, industry, James Patterson, petitions, pricing, royalties, Scott Turow, Self-Publishing, Stephen King

What time is it? It’s NaNoWriMo Time!

By Ariana Vives

November 1, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What time is it? It’s NaNoWriMo Time!

Every fall, I contemplate whether or not I should attempt NaNoWriMo. Writing 50,000 words in 30 days is a manageable challenge, though not an easy one. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Every November, hundreds of thousands of people around the world attempt to write a novel—by NaNoWriMo’s definition, 50,000 words—within […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Bella Andre, Cinder, creativity, e-book, James Patterson, Malinda Lo, Marissa Meyer, nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month, New York Times, Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, writing

Authors Lend a Helping Hand

By Roberta Kelley

October 22, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Authors Lend a Helping Hand

It is common knowledge that independent bookstores have been struggling to stay in business. Studies have shown that fewer and fewer people are actually finding books in bookstores. With the rise of e-books and bookselling websites, readers are finding it more convenient to order books from the comfort of their own homes than to browse […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: amazon, Authors, book selling, bookstores, Business, e-books, Independent Bookstores, Indies First, James Patterson, Neil Gaiman, promotion, Richard Russo, sherman alexie, Small Business Saturday, Stephen King

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