No review today as I’ve been plotting and writing (and reading interferes with my world building), but I’m reinstituting an irregular feature here at Booklorn where I round up some interesting links of what is going on in publishing. At most it will be weekly, but if I don’t find anything of general interest it will be less often:
#1: Currently there is a lot of discussion about Amazon’s move to become a publisher by picking up self-published books sold on Amazon that it thinks it could sell more of by issuing hard cover editions and doing marketing.
#2: A Russian book reviewer was sued over their review by a writer: Neither one is happy with the outcome.
#3: Not publishing specific, but related to story telling and pop culture: An analysis of the new Star Trek movie with a perspective you’ll read nowhere else (hilarious I thought, but then I’m a little twisted I’ve been told 
).
That’s all for this week’s links.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read about the new Star Trek movie so far!
Regarding No.2: Apparently “Freedom of Speech,” does not apply in Dagestan!!
Somehow Amazon’s thoughts on how real publishers will view their move seems entirely too optimistic to me.
The Dagestan court piece actually blew my mind. The reasons the author gave are bull! It instantly made me think of those 900 # lawyers who hand out neck braces like candy…
The Star Trek post had me rolling! Fantastic!
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