Thursday, August 14, 2014

THE ROUNDUP with PW - Lee Child Weighs in on Readers United


If You're Tweeting, Are You Writing?: The last few years have seen intense debate over the nature and value of Twitter. Into the midst of this comes 'Working On My Novel,' a new book by the artist Cory Arcangel composed entirely of tweets, including the titular phrase, only one of them originally tweeted by him.

Lee Child Weighs in on Readers United : Amazon is using “authors as collateral damage and using customers as pawns,” says the author.

Shepard Seeks the Truth : Permanent Press publisher Martin Shepard on the Authors United ad in the 'New York Times.'

Top 10 Hotel Novels : From Robert Bloch's 'Psycho' to Chekhov's 'Lady With the Dog,' Mark Watson at the 'Guardian' explores the magnetism of hotels for novelists.

Amazon Gets in the Payment Game: Amazon is taking direct aim at mobile payment systems such as Square by introducing the Amazon Local Register, a credit-card processing device and mobile app designed to help small business owners accept payments through their smartphones and tablets.


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