I don't pay enough attention to the business of writing as I should, but now I'm just completely furious at Amazon for it's latest trick. As most of you know, I don't go through a traditional publisher, instead Publishing through Lulu, a print-on-demand (POD) service, which is at least honest about what I'm doing.

Amazon has announced that it will no longer provide sales services for POD books... unless you use their print service, BookSurge. They will not sell books printed by Lulu or Lightning. Writers Weekly has confirmed this, and supporting articles have appeared in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

I'm not buying a damn thing from Amazon until they back off this punk stupid stunt.

Tags: business, writing
Current Mood: angry
Current Music: MC Hawking, All My Shootings Be Drive-Bys

Does anyone out there have any experience with BitPass, the micropayment system? I'm less than pleased with PayPal these days and would like to use BitPass for donations and the like, since I'm thinking about hosting a fundraiser for my story site sometime soon (yes, that will involve new stories).

Specifically, how well does BitPass work with languages other than Perl? It seems to be Perl- and PHP-oriented, and I'm a Python/Ruby kind of guy.

Tags: business
Current Mood: pecuniary
Current Music: Yoko Kanno, The End of All You Know