If you follow my twitter you’ll laready know this (and will have been treated to several photos), but if you don’t, on Easter Sunday I managed to plunge my right hand into recently-boiled water, necessitating a trip to the NHS drop-in centre and excitingly high dose painkillers.

It’s getting better, though it’s still all bandaged up (bandage should come off on wednesday, though I keep meaning to get a doctor’s appointment to get an opinion that’s not mine on how I’m doing!) and I’m still taking the painkillers. I’m getting the hang of typing again, even if it’s a bit slower and more typo prone (who could tell the difference?).

Anyway, since I’m here, and it’s a Monday, how about some links? Even if several of them are a bit out of date now.

What the Google Settlement Would have Cost, courtesy of Courtney Milan. Google was allowed under the terms of the settlement to set any price it wanted, as long as authors were paid (net) on list price. Amazon’s contract with self-published authors means it price matches the lowest price on the net. If Google had discounted, Amazon would have discounted, and Amazon pays based on the price the ebook sells for, not the author’s preferred price. As Lee Goldberg discovered when Kobo slashed his prices and Amazon followed suit. If you sell through Amazon be very, very careful who else you sell through, because if anyone else discounts their prices, even if they pay you on list price, Amazon will match it.

Patricia Kirby discusses how to judge a publisher by their web presence, and gets plagiarised for it. Charming. There’s s a lot of blogs out there that harvest posts for ad revenue, which is scammy enough, but there’s something about doing so to flog their own book which pushes more buttons for me than the usual harvesting. Fortunately, the plagiarising blog appears to have disappeared.

Crossed Genres gives an example of how not to get published. I think everyone’s seen this by now, but it’s still worth linking.