Amazon admits publishers should price ebooks
Following up yesterday's story, Amazon seems to have yielded in the battle over pricing and selling Macmillan's books...
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Author Kage Baker Dies
Author Kage Baker (1952-2010) had been battling cancer. She was the 2004 winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in January 2010
Avatar, Avatar, Avatar, still the top of the charts. But new films opened this week, and while sf/f/h is still making a strong showing at the top of the charts, things always change...
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Most Popular and Updated Articles: 24-30 January 2010
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated...
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Amazon stops selling Macmillan’s books in argument over ebook pricing
Amazon.com has removed the buy buttons from all Macmillan books, and also removed all Macmillan titles from Kindle sales, in response to the publisher's proposed "agency model" for ebooks...
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Books Received: January 2010
Books received for review during the month of January 2010. This page is updated throughout the month.
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Kage Baker’s cancer appears to be winning
Author Kage Baker's aggressive cancer appears to be winning, and her sister reports the end may be near...
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The Tenth Plague—Fringe’s “The Bishop Revival”
Fringe continues to be a feast for the mind every week... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Chuck Gannon joins Steve White to continue Starfire Universe
Chuck Gannon is taking over writing the Starfire Universe novels from founding team Steve White and David Weber. Baen will publish...
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St. Martin’s Press hires agent Brendan Deneen
After two and a half years as an agent at Fineprint Literary, Brendan Deneen is leaving to be an editor at St. Martin's...
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Mark Charan Newton’s Legends of the Run Sun series to continue
Mark Charan Newton sold the third and fourth books in his Legends of the Red Sun series to Tor UK...
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Jim Baen’s Universe’s February 2010 Issue
The February 2010 issue of Jim Baen's Universe has fiction by Gregory Benford, David Gerrold, Denise McCune, Sandra M. Odell, Shauna Roberts, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Manly Wade Wellman...
Read more [...] Screenwriter Scott Milam writing comic for Arcada
Screenwriter Scott Milam is developing a new comic book for Arcana Studios. Killing Machine takes pieces from The Six Million Dollar Man and Taken...
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The Knight Agency reports foreign rights sales for Caine and Hunter
The Knight Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Rachel Caine and Faith Hunter in France and Germany...
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Faith Hunter sells five books to Audible.com
Faith Hunter sold audio rights to the first three Rogue Mage books and the first two Jane Yellowrock novels to Audible.com...
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