The lost history of Fifty Shades of Grey
Galleycat delves into the origins of E L James's bestselling book as Twilight fan fiction in a fascinating tracking of its origins.
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Galleycat delves into the origins of E L James's bestselling book as Twilight fan fiction in a fascinating tracking of its origins.
Online authors should never forget that readers can travel backwards in Internet time and explore their earlier work. This month, author E L James scored a seven-figure book deal to publish the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy and a movie deal quickly followed.
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Mike Shatzkin on the wider implications of Pottermore's approach to selling the Harry Potter ebooks.
Pottermore changed the game this morning. Congratulations to Charlie Redmayne, their CEO.
The “aha” moment for me was when somebody on a listserv mentioned they’d bought Kindle editions of the seven Harry Potter books which, it had been announced, were available only from the Pottermore site.
Penny drops. First thought: Hnh? How did that happen?
Then the news came that Amazon was referring people off its site to Pottermore to buy the Kindle editions of Harry Potter ebooks. (It turns out that Barnes & Noble is doing the same.) There they register themselves and then can buy the ebooks.
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The intriguing story of Andre Schiffrin's publishing house and how it has made a success out of being a nonprofit publisher with a mission statement to publish “in the public interest".
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