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The Amazon Conundrum

Karin Kallmaker Business of Books

This post primarily concerns Amazon practices around paperback sales and what are now called “sponsored products” that persisted until circa 2013.

Writing gets in the way of blogging, as it should, and so I have been silent over the last several weeks and the topics I want to address are stacking up. I’ve been wrestling with a particularly sticky issue–bookselling models–and realized that there’s one part of it that is necessary to address, but has so many tangents and unique aspects that it deserves its own space. Read More

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Ellipse. . . How I Loved. . . Thee. . .

Karin Kallmaker Book News, Craft of Writing, Embrace in Motion, Painted Moon - First Edition

So I started reading Painted Moon, which is my fifth published book. I feared that in the intervening years the story had grown dated, or that my growth as a writer would have me itching to rewrite every other sentence. To my relief, both the story and my writing held up to my critical eye, though I found a tweak here and there that was essential. To be sure, there were passages I would tackle differently now, but overall, I was pleased. Well, except for the ellipses. Read More