A Few Thoughts on Kindle Un/Limited (and the Biggest Mistake Amazon Is Making With Writers)

July 20, 2014July 20, 2014Scott William Carter

If you’re not familiar with Amazon’s new subscription service for ebooks, here’s two articles for background: http://gizmodo.com/should-you-get-amazon-kindle-unlimited-1607137417 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/review-amazon-unlimited-e-book-service-is-limited/2014/07/18/48ffa338-0eb5-11e4-b0dd-edc009ac1f9d_story.html Those articles both offer more than a knee-jerk anti-Amazon response, which you’ll often find in the media, but both sum up what I’ve been hearing from readers: meh. Been thinking about this a lot for the past…

A 25 Cent Book in 1950 Would Be $2.44 Today

April 8, 2014April 8, 2014Scott William Carter

That’s if you trust the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with its terrific CPI Inflation Calculator, which lets you enter an amount going all the way back to 1913, and, with the click of a button, see what the inflation-adjusted price would be today — or another year. I checked this site in response to David Gaughran’s…

Will Libraries Become Publishers?

January 23, 2014January 23, 2014Scott William Carter

One library in Tennessee thinks so: IngramSpark is a publishing, distribution, and print-on-demand platform from the Ingram Content Group, built specifically for independent publishers and authors. The platform promises ebook distribution into 70% of the world, and print distribution to 80,000 retailers and libraries globally. The first book from the Williamson County library is a…

Library Funding Nationwide on the Rebound

January 15, 2014January 15, 2014Scott William Carter

From Library Journal: While every library hopes to see good news for its budget, of late, many will happily settle for no bad news. The year 2012 was marked by modest gains in library budgets and a stemming of the bleeding caused by cuts in the wake of the collapse of the financial sector and accompanying…