Book Publishers Are Whining About Amazon Giving the Buy Button to the Seller w/ the Lowest Price - The Digital Reader

Panzer's trip into the Catosphere today took him to The Digital Reader site. There our traveling kitty pilot found a post about Amazon.

According to site owner Nate Hoffelder's post, a lot of book publishers are upset about Amazon's new practice of awarding a book's Buy Button to the seller with the lowest priced offer for the book. This is true even if the seller may not be the publisher of the book. Using a post from the Huffington Post site by book publisher Brooke Warner, Mr. Hoffelder addresses the issues brought up in the post for his responses. Several of his responses relate to the fact that the non-publisher sellers in question couldn't offer the books at a lower price if they hadn't already purchased the books themselves or been given them as review copies. Mr. Hoffelder addresses other issues in his post as well.

Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.

Panzer says, "I checked all my books and all my Buy Buttons are my own."

Note: This is a l-o-n-g post. Bring a cup of tea and two muffins for today's reading selection.

To read the post, tootle over to Amazon

Lucky Breaks For Writers

It feels so good between my toes.

Panzer was out in the Catosphere feeling lucky today.

Why?

Because our big bad kitty stopped in at the Huffington Post site. There he found a post by Holly Robinson about lucky breaks for writers. Ms. Robinson has seven tips for finding your lucky breaks. She starts off with the usual write a lot, enter contests, and then moves on to attending conferences and associating with professionals. She has four more lucky breaks for you to try. According to Ms. Robinson, each lucky break you take advantage of will help you in the long run.

Panzer says, "I feel like I'm running through a patch of four leaf clovers!"

To read the post, tootle over to 7 tips for writers

Cats Own The World

It's about time somebody got it.

Panzer found this post over at the Huffington Post website.

The post has photos and graphics and totally explains cat behavior.

Panzer says, "It's about time somebody put this together so every human can finally understand what cats want."

To see what your cat really thinks about you, tootle over to Cat Facts.