News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #76…

Item: Hachette v. Amazon fallout? Not much seen, actually. I bought a copy of Michael Connelly’s The Burning Room, though. This ebook cost me $3.99, I think, but it’s now listed at $4.99. In either case, that’s in the “sweet spot” between $2.99 and $4.99, the latter price not bad for a new book of this length. So…maybe the fallout will be subtle, with Hachette and other Big Five publishers realizing that they must sell ebooks at reasonable prices in order to compete—no one wants to pay almost...