A new study reports that blogs influence purchases more than social networks.
While I’m not sure how accurate that is, it does make me wonder where authors pick up the majority of their readers. Do blogs really influence readers? Do book reviews and recommendations matter? Do social networks help at all? I know of readers and [...]

I recently visited an author’s website (an author I’ve known and respected for years) and at the bottom of the site there’s the standard “do not copy without written permission” but there was also “ask for permission before linking to my website.”
My jaw dropped a bit when I read that.
Repeat after me folks, link backs [...]