Let me say at the top that I have an e-book out there.
Five Star published my crime novel, Early’s Fall, last year as a hardcover book. This year, they signed a deal with Amazon to release it as a Kindle book – an e-book.
I’m new in the business, so I was tickled to have my [...]

Literary agent Andrew Wylie last month caused an uproar in the executive suites of the big publishing houses.
It wasn’t enough that he said Random House and the others wouldn’t pay the writers and writer’s estates he represents enough money for e-book publishing rights. He said he’d start his own e-book publishing company – Odyssey Editions [...]

July 20 may one day be considered a historic day in publishing.
On that day, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced to the world that his company was selling more electronic books than it was the traditional ink-on-paper kind – 143 digital books for every 100 hardbacks during the previous three months.
The sales curve is upward. Sales [...]

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have had the hog’s share of the e-book market.
Yes, you can buy your e-books directly from the electronic book publishers – most of them small houses – but if you want Stephen King’s or Mary Higgins Clark’s latest book in digital, and those of other top-selling writers, you go to [...]

I started out like every other writer who grew up reading James Michener. I was going to write this great saga that would sell books by the tens of thousands.
And I wrote it. A great saga.
And I got 125 rejections letters from agents and editors.
I decided, well, I’ve got [...]

Wednesday, that’s it.
It’s the last day you can walk into The Mystery Company – Jim Huang’s bookstore in Carmel, Indiana – and buy a book.
After almost seven years in that northern Indianapolis suburb, Jim is calling it quits.
His becomes one more small business – worse for us, a seller of books – to be crushed [...]