The recent PR dust-up regarding Amazon’s delisting and re-tagging of various books (many of them falling in the LGBT lit genres) in their system that then caused those books to be far harder to find – and therefore buy – was a great PR lesson of what not to do (unless your goal is to […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 8 – Yours, Mine, Ours
While the overriding driver for the Brain Candy team to start Runes of Gallidon was a passion for the concept of building a shared world collaboratively, we also acknowledged that at some point we would have to figure out how we could share revenue with Artisans. Ah, the wonderfully tricky, sticky issues with money and […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 7 – What’s in a Name?
Choosing a name for the world was an interesting experiment that involved not just finding something different, unique, and appealing, but also ensuring that we could get the URL for the domain and (hopefully) not infringe on an existing trademark.
Erth Chronicles
Just stumbled on an interesting site, Erth Chronicles, where Richard (James Johnson) is allowing artists to submit their original works for posting on the site. He’s the author behind the Erth Chronicles fiction (Book I, The Enemy’s Son, is available for purchase now), and he’s inviting artists to submit their works to him for posting […]
Scribd v. Rowling
Techcrunch is reporting J.K. Rowling’s latest lawsuit, this time against Scribd.com. Apparently some Scribd users have been uploading illegal copies of Rowling’s works, which is, clearly, not right. Suing Scribd, however, doesn’t seem like the appropriate response, either. DMCA/safe harbor would appear to apply, meaning Rowling should be going after the users who have uploaded […]