News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #78…

Item: ny times attacking Amazon. I’ve made a New Year’s resolution to start writing “ny times” without caps, because they’re continually showing their small-mindedness. I’ve already stopped reading their Sunday Book Review—their bestseller lists are completely meaningless and should be ignored for multiple reasons. When Hachette caved to Amazon, the newspaper lost a cause they’d been hammering, so now they’ve come out against Amazon by declaring that they aren’t needed by online buyers in a r...