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Saturday, May 23 • 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Is Amazon Bad For Authors?

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The online retailer Amazon relentlessly uses its negotiating power to squeeze more advertising fees out of publishers, and at the same time they are driving down the retail price of books sold through their site. That combination is one of the reasons behind an industry-wide one-quarter drop in the size of the advances publishers are paying to authors for mid-list titles -- works that are expected to sell modestly, but might endure. This makes it harder for authors that haven't sold a blockbuster to earn a decent living from writing full-time. Has Amazon gone too far? Is there anything publishers can do to ensure they will stay in business? What are the best ways readers can support their favorite authors when shopping for books?
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Mike Madrid

Creative Director/Author, Exterminating Angel Press
Mike Madrid is the author of The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, the Golden Age comics collections Divas, Dames & Daredevils and Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, as well as being creative director of Exterminating Angel Press. He has contributed... Read More →

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Alan Beatts

Alan Beatts has operated Borderlands Books in San Francisco since 1997. He has served on the boards of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, the Locus Foundation and the World Horror Convention. Prior to bookselling, he was involved in law enforcement and, subsequently... Read More →
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Amber Benson

This very talented and prolific Woman of Wonder has had multiple, almost simultaneous careers in which the roles of Actor, Author, Director, and Producer are only touching the surface.Amber Benson got her start in Birmingham, Alabama in January, 1977. As a child she studied music... Read More →
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AE Marling

Fantasy writer, dancer, law-abiding citizen, human being (in that order). A.E. Marling wrote his first fantasy novella after his freshman year in high school. In college, he found nothing gave him a greater urge to write than science lectures, and he sat through a lot of ‘em... Read More →

Saturday May 23, 2015 2:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
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