Tag: publishing industry
Read our first book, THE AUTOMATION, on the Internet Archive for free:
People who value Wikipedia should rise to the defense of the Internet Archive, a core resource in accessing information that was once posted to the web, but later deleted. And also troves of out-of-copyright books. Not to mention the lending program for copyrighted books.
— Pete Forsyth (@PeteForsyth) June 11, 2020
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People like to draw a line between predatory publishers and regular publishers, but in a capitalist system, publishers are still stealing wages from authors no matter how “good” they are. /
— Anarchists Care About Books 🦇🌈 (@_WildeAtHeart) June 15, 2020
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and many people see ebook licenses as not honoring the right of first sale anyway. Their model is not so different than Google Books or HathiTrust, especially considering that people do not get to keep the books. /
— Anarchists Care About Books 🦇🌈 (@_WildeAtHeart) June 15, 2020
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In my experience (25 years in the industry), many publishers are grateful to libraries bc they’re such large purchasers and supporters of books and authors, hold events and readings, etc. He certainly isn’t, though! Major chip on that shoulder
— JaneAustenDance (@JaneAustenDance) July 28, 2020
BookTuber Tuesday – Books I Never Should Have Read
BookTuber Tuesday – Jenna Marbles is producing a web series of “James Patterson’s” Maximum Ride
For someone who doesn’t want to be controlled by the corporate world and protect her freedom, she’s participating in corporate publishing and stifling honest writers — promoting a book that James Patterson didn’t even write. We feel like she can do better.
For more of our opinion on this, see this essay.
BookTuber Tuesday – On Book Packagers and Art and Honesty
Comments from the video on YouTube:
[High art vs. low art argument aside, book packagers’ bottom line is to deceive readers into thinking inspiration wasn’t packaged like processed meat. Instead of allowing cheating in the “system,” perhaps authors and readers should note why cheating was considered in the first place and what this says about their culture and the “art” it produces (or lack thereof).]
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Have a book vlog video you want us to check out? Submit a link below in the comments and it could make the CIRCO blog.
[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]
