Go Red: Save a Heart Tonight with Rhonda McKnight

This month is Heart Health Month.  This week is also my birthday week. As I said earlier, I owe my longevity to you guys and also my cardiologist super team and the American Heart Association. Tonight is the last night to support heart health and get a read at the same time. Hop over to Rhonda McKnight(whose birthday is tomorrow) Heart Health Online Book Tour. 10% of book purchases today will goto the American Heart Association. Go Red. Get a Great Read.

Weekend Chat: Will Hachette & Macmillan Agency Model help or hurt Amazon?

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David Young, Hachette Book Group USA's CEO, sent an e-mail to agents Thursday announcing the company's decision to "transition to selling our e-books through an agency model," giving Macmillan an ally in its confrontation with Amazon. GalleyCat posted a copy of the letter. View it here.

The agency relationship will allow us to make more titles available to more consumers on more platforms. This expands the author's reach and readership, which is at the heart of what we do as a publisher. Ultimately, these new terms open doors to all online e-book service providers and create more avenues for delivering e-books to readers.

What do you think? And how will this affect readers and authors?