So Jake and the Dynamo just appeared in the pages of the October 22 issue of Publisher’s Weekly. Before you tell me that’s awesome, just know that I payed to be there.
Some of the venerable old book-related publications have pay-to-play schemes for indie authors, and there’s still an active debate over whether they’re quite ethical, or worth the money. There’s also the question of whether any actual readers pay attention to Publisher’s Weekly. But so it goes.