Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Strange Doings in Distribution

    I heard through the grapevine that books published by Macmillan – the parent company of St. Martin’s Press and TOR, among others – had been removed from Amazon.com. Sure enough, my TOR titles (FALLEN and GUARDIAN) are still listed there, but the books are available from third party vendors. Isn’t that weird? It’s especially odd…

  • A Strike Against Piracy

    This is an amazing story. Such a simple strategy that many people (obviously) didn’t think of it, but a very effective one. Check out this post at Novelists Inc.

  • Book Distribution – IV

    Today, we’ll talk about the implications of all of these changes for authors. • Visibility I could maybe have called this “accountability” but that seems a bit extreme. The change here is that what authors do, and what they say, can have greater implications than was once the case. Part of this is because what…

  • Book Distribution – III

    Ah, the internet. You knew we had to get to it sooner or later! We’ll look at what the internet did to book distribution first, then we’ll need to look at the impact of this upon authors (since we are, after all, authors, and that’s our perspective.) Amazon.com was the huge change to bookselling and…

  • Book Distribution – II

    You might think that the first big change in the early 1990’s was the internet, but something happened in book publishing and distribution before that. That change was corporate consolidation. In the 1990’s, it was very fashionable at a corporate level to merge and consolidate companies. This happened in two arenas in publishing – well,…