Monthly Archives: July 2012

Penguin’s New Business Model: Exploiting Writers

I don’t normally post here just to inform you of articles I have written elsewhere, but I think this one is important. Most of you will have heard the news that Penguin’s parent Pearson has purchased the infamous self-publishing services … Continue reading

Posted in Bewares | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 44 Comments

Making Money From Paperbacks

As regular readers will be aware, I used to post a monthly sales report, sharing my sales numbers, dollars earned, and what I had been up to in terms of promotion or various other projects. I did that for a … Continue reading

Posted in Publishing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 60 Comments

The Authors Guild Doesn’t Serve Writers

It’s official: the Authors Guild has lost the plot. In their (seemingly endless) quest to smear Amazon, they don’t care who they wheel out as an injured party. Spoiler alert: it’s PublishAmerica. Yep, you read that right. But before we get … Continue reading

Posted in Bewares, Publishing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 79 Comments
https://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/07/
davidgaughran.wordpress.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-22
57495
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:CRWSISOP5BFDJOD23WXSAVWTNS7JACKG
<urn:uuid:cbc02312-4459-45c2-8dc3-bee410bb4f4e>
2018-05-27T15:43:16Z
192.0.78.13
text/html
sha1:4Z7W6YVJDCQZPXWDOAPK7LC4O5PELERZ
<urn:uuid:b50d863a-6327-4a49-aa9e-a5b4652319f3>
https://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/07/
length
response
<urn:uuid:bd1a3e14-d09a-4b03-901e-dd28c1b1a08f>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-149-106-148.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-22
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf