A
rojak* of items that caught my eye this week…
Bookvibe
I just
discovered Bookvibe, a new (to me) service which provides book
recommendations from your followers on Twitter.
Amazon Paying Authors By Pages Read
Amazon has announced
a new way of paying authors for books available on Kindle: Beginning July 1, 2015, we'll switch from paying Kindle Unlimited
(KU) and Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL) royalties based on qualified
borrows, to paying based on the number of pages read. We're making this switch
in response to great feedback we received from authors who asked us to better
align payout with the length of books and how much customers read. Under the
new payment method, you'll be paid for each page individual customers read of
your book, the first time they read it.
This change of policy
has provoked much comment in the worldwide press. If you are a self-published author,
what do you think of it? Do please leave a comment, and, if the response is big enough, I'll provide a summary next week.
Judging A Book By
Its Cover
Why do so many books
by South Asian women writers have the same kind of covers? And why do those
covers mostly seem to feature saris and fair-skinned women? These are questions addressed by Lisa Lau in a
piece for online journal Scroll.in. Click here to read it.
Quick
Notice: Healing Waters Floating Lamps
by Kiriti Sengupta
Healing Waters Floating Lamps is a collection of philosophical verses by Kolkata-based
poet, translator, and author, Kiriti Sengupta. The poems explore humdrum daily
experiences and reveal their baffling paradoxes and cruel ironies. Healing Waters has sold well on Amazon,
USA. It is published by Moments Publication, Ahmedabad, Gujrat.
Blog
Spot
Do
you run a blog you think may be of interest to readers of Asian Books
Blog? If so, get in touch, preferably
via e-mail - asianbooksblog@gmail.com - because I want to include a weekly blog
spot in The Sunday Post. The idea is to invite administrators of relevant and
interesting-sounding blogs to write a paragraph about their blog, to be posted
in the blog spot.
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