It’s been quite an eventful week in the publishing world. The one everybody is talking about it seems is the fiasco Walmart, Amazon, and Target have caused. If you don’t know, Walmart.com cut the prices of new bestsellers to less than $10, and both of the other companies followed suit. Even Sears got involved through the use of coupons. Basically they want to (admittedly) take a loss on their books in order to get people into their stores. So we’ll start with something related. The American Booksellers Association drafted a letter to the Department of Justice about the whole thing. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Over at BookEnds, Jessica wrote a reminder post about why an agent does what she (in this case) does. It’s not about torturing writers, it’s about experience in a field that is hard to work in. It made me smile to read about the things her clients go through, it’s not just the writers trying to query!

This isn’t exactly something to go read, but in light of NaNoWriMo coming up, I thought I’d share this. Jennifer over at Procrastinating Writers is having a special series of posts all throughout the month of November. Check it out for daily tips to get you through your 1700 words a day!

And finally, Barnes and Nobles released their new e-book reader this week, the Nook. One of my online writing buddies, Robert McKay, did a neat post about some of its features.

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