So Shall You Reap? Success and ‘Investment’ at #DBW15 (Writer Unboxed)
What do we expect in return for heavy investment in our work? What do we expect a publisher to invest?
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Why Your Spotify or Netflix for Print Content is Probably Doomed (GigaOM)
The latest comes from Magzter, a company that is offering an all-you-can-read subscription to a universe of 2,000 magazines for $9.99 a month.
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Amazon Enters the Feature Film Business (GoodeReader)
Post-production takes a fraction of the time it used to. So what does all of this mean? Companies like Amazon have the opportunity and the option of producing their own feature films.
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The State of Our Reading Habits (Dear Author)
Specifically, Romance occupies almost a quarter of the entire digital book market, and readers as a whole (including and perhaps especially Romance readers) buy a whole lot of books, many of which they may never read.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Things We Set On Fire (and others)