Josie Brown's Blog

• Author-Agent Breakups: The Right Way, and The Wrong Way

  July 15, 2008

  • I know several authors who are going through breakups with their agents right now.

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• Backlist Books: Why "All Sales Final" Works

  June 27, 2008

  • In Publisher's Marketplace today, there was a blurb about Penguin UK meeting with British booksellers to broach the issue of a no-return policy on the publisher's backlist.

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• Amazon's Feud with Brit Pub Houses: What that Means to Authors

  June 13, 2008

  • Even in good economic times, book sales only inch up, or stay stagnant. Revenue increases seem to be tied to jumps in the retail prices of books vs.

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• Book Trailers: Will the Right Message, and the Right Medium, Bring in the Money?

  June 10, 2008

  • I read with interest the recent Wall Street Journal

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• $5 for a Gallon of Gas: When Will the Hogs Get Slaughtered?

  June 7, 2008

  • Below is a blog entry that my husband, Martin, posted back in April, in SingleMindedWomen.com

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• Bush Plans on Cutting "Reading Is Fundamental" funding....

  April 23, 2008

  • Below is Kevin Howell's blog entry in Publishers Weekly. Thank God Jackie Speirs has joined Congress.

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• Are Authors Chained to the Chains?

  March 20, 2008

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• Saving the Internet

  February 13, 2008

  • Writers, FYI: Free internet access is at risk!

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