Book News

Amazon Employees Accepting Bribes to Take Down Bad Reviews
(September 19, 2018 By Mercy Pilkington): https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/amazon-employees-accepting-bribes-to-take-down-bad-reviews

Amazon KDP Unveils Kindle Create Word Doc Conversion Tool By Mercy Pilkington – Good-e-Reader (April 7, 2017): http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/amazon-kdp-unveils-kindle-create-word-doc-conversion-tool

In A World That’s Stranger Than Fiction, Are Americans Still Reading Books?
(By Claire Fallon): https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/is-donald-trump-really-making-us-read-fewer-books_us_599df02ce4b0821444c09106

Ebooks: How digital publishers are ‘shaking up’ the industry  (By Jody Sabral BBC News): https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45088172

International Bestsellers, August 2018: http://www.publishingtrends.com/2018/08/international-bestsellers-august-2018/

January 2018 Report: US online book sales, Q2-Q4 2017: http://authorearnings.com/report/january-2018-report-us-online-book-sales-q2-q4-2017/

Long-Term Marketing Models for Self-Published Authors  by Jane Friedman  (January 20, 2016): https://janefriedman.com/long-term-marketing-models-for-self-published-authors/ 

May 2016 Author Earnings Report: the definitive million-title study of US author earnings – authorearnings.com: http://authorearnings.com/report/may-2016-report/

Of Course Facebook is Biased.  That’s How Tech Works Today (Issie Lapowsky): https://www.wired.com/2016/05/course-facebook-biased-thats-tech-works-today/

People Who Use E-Readers Dive far Deeper Into Books (Achel Edidin): https://www.wired.com/2014/03/ebooks-read-more/

Publisher’s Weekly – Unit Sales Rose 3% at the End of April (May 05, 2017): http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/73533-unit-sales-rose-3-at-the-end-of-april.html

Real books are back. E-book sales plunge nearly 20% by Ivana Kottasová @ivanakottasova – CNN Media (April 27, 2017): http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-books/

Unemployed, Living In A Caravan — And Now, Winner Of A $165,000 Literary Prize by Colin Dwyer (March 1, 2017): http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517940623/unemployed-living-in-a-caravan-and-now-winner-of-a-165-000-literary-prize

Women and comic book writing – Is the field opening up? By Christopher Borrelli – Chicago Tribune (TNS) (Apr 20, 2017): http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/blogs/wednesday_morning_quarterback/of-batwomen-and-squirrel-girls-why-comics-are-becoming-increasingly/article_3ed0f713-c4d0-5270-92a8-7d4e3db66318.html

Women Writers Face Major Hurdles, Especially In Bestselling Genres
(By Maddie Crum): https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-writers-face-major-hurdles-especially-in-bestselling-genres_us_592dd993e4b055a197cde4ff