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Indie Booksellers Tell Indie Authors To Go To Hell
Yesterday, I mentioned one of the dumbest things in the world of books: Hey Barnes & Noble: Stop Bitchin’ and Start Competing! But today comes an even dumber Amazon-bashing: ABA Says ‘No’ to Amazon Publishing QUIZ! Find the disconnect here: Ebooks and Amazon have hurt book stores, especially independents. Amazon has helped authors, especially independents. […]
Hey Barnes & Noble: Stop Bitchin’ and Start Competing!
I got an email from a friend this morning: On 2/8/2012 9:47 AM, Eric wrote: Good morning, Lew.I just got a Nook Tablet and tried to purchase Die By Wire.What’s up and when will I be able to get it? Eric Dear Eric: Attached is a free ePub of Die By Wire. Sorry you can’t […]
Wine, Art, Thrillers & Music: Smells Like Beethoven, Sounds Like A Forgery
A current article from The Economist provokes some intriguing questions about wine tasting, synaesthesia and environmental influences on perception of taste and quality. It’s one of my favorite topics. In one of my best-selling thrillers, Daughter of God, my heroine was an art expert with an uncanny ability to detect forged paintings. Her secret weapon: […]
Two More Reasons To Go Indie – Print Units Fell 9% in 2011
No additional commentary needed. These excerpts are from Publisher’s Weekly and show why legacy publishing is sinking. Print Units Fell 9% in 2011 “The final numbers from Nielsen BookScan are in for 2011 and they show that print sales through the outlets it tracks fell by just over 9% in the year. Total units sold […]
Why Would A NYTimes Bestselling Author Go Indie? (Losing A Million Dollars Is Just The Start)
People have asked me: why have I decided to go indie with Die By Wire. Why — when I have had books that made the NYTimes, USA Today and other bestseller lists the old, traditional, legacy way — did I decide to take this course? Well, to start with, I’ve already lost a million dollars with […]
How To Send A Kindle Book As A Gift
Sure, Christmas and Chanukah are behind us (or way, way, ahead) but here comes Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays etc. And because there were a record number of ereaders sold over the holidays, giving someone a Kindle book as a gift fits the bill … especially if you’ve waited until the night before […]
Ground The Airbus A380: Not sky-worthy, say engineers
This is not Die By Wire’s precise reason for calling fly-by-wire aircraft “death traps.” But it does emphasize that we should not be gullible when it comes to accepting the airline industry’s assurances Ground The Airbus A380: Not sky-worthy, say engineers “Australian aircraft engineers have called for Airbus A380 – the world’s biggest passenger aircraft […]
Burn a Quran and Die: Is Islam Evil?
A key theme in Die By Wire is the assertion of many that Islam is evil. Or does the evil done in the name of God/Allah simply arise from those who distort religion and abuse spirituality to justify their own political, cultural and dictatorial agendas? In all my other thrillers, my characters grapple with issues […]
Software bug fingered as cause of Aussie A330 plunge
In Die By Wire, I talk about the software and hardware vulnerablities inherent in fly-by-wire computer systems. In that book, the villain, through a series of corporate shells, buys a reliability testing company that services airliner computer systems. His aim: even if you can’t eliminate all the bugs (like the Aussie A330’s) you can exploit […]
The Prelude To Fictional (And Real-Life) Aircraft Disappearances: Unencrypted GPS:
“Civilian Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers are vulnerable to a number of different attacks such as blocking, jamming, and spoofing. The goal of such attacks is either to prevent a position lock (blocking and jamming), or to feed the receiver false information so that it computes an erroneous time or location (spoofing). GPS receivers are […]
