Aug 14 2008
According to the Census Bureau reports (which do not include used books, electronic home shopping, mail-order, or direct sale) that brick and mortar book sales are down in June by 7.6% even though, for the year, the sales have increased 3.1%. Full census data here.
Aug 14 2008
Dear Ms. Holder, />I’m afraid the merfolk romance is not for me. I’ve never been enchanted by merpeople and honestly, the thought of getting up close and personal with someone who has a fishtail weirds me out. It also makes me crave sushi, which weirds me out even more. I love sushi but not in [...]
Aug 13 2008
Dear Ms Greene, Poor Paris, it always gets the blame for everything. And this time it’s at fault for bringing Kel and Will together. Not that it’s really Paris that does anything. More that it’s Kel’s fault for picking a bad neighborhood to rent a hotel room in and then taking all her important stuff [...]
Aug 13 2008
We have the good fortune to give away 4 ARCs (one copy gently read) and 5 finished copies. The four ARCs will be mailed on Saturday with the five finished copies to be sent out when I receive them (probably at the end of next week). Goodman is one of my favorite authors and I [...]
Aug 12 2008
File this under “you couldn’t make this crap (pun intended) up”. American artist Paul McCarthy created a giant inflatable dog turd called Complex Shit. It is supposed to deflate in bad weather but the failsafe program failed and the turd tore loose from its moorings and blew threw a Swiss town, knocking out a window [...]
Aug 12 2008
Dear Ms. Hammond, I discovered your novels while looking for more recommendations for quiet Regencies. I followed my own advice by checking out books at Regency Reads and voila, there you were. With the help of the very welcome first chapter excerpt offered there, I felt confident in selecting “Autumn Bride” from the list of [...]
Aug 12 2008
UPDATED: Ms. Laurie has apparently deleted her post. The cached version is here. Victoria Laurie, a professional psychic and author, engaged in an Amazon contretemps not too long after the Deborah Anne MacGillivray. This led to a mass deletion of reviews and comments at Amazon on all sides. Apparently Laurie, who says “Thanks to Candy [...]
Aug 12 2008
CNET has a report on Salon.com new media outlet whereby members of “Open Salon” can tip the bloggers with real-world money. Content with the most tips or the most popularity will make its way from the user-generated community to the front page of Salon.com. I’m still pondering whether I like this idea or not. On [...]
Aug 12 2008
One of the search terms that brought a reader to the site in the past week was why plagiarism bothers authors. Given the size of the recent panel on plagiarism at RWA, it appears that it doesn’t bother some authors. Or is that the wrong assumption to draw? Needless to say, the panel was not [...]
Aug 11 2008
GalleyCat had an interesting article regarding a contretemps involving author Michael Cisco and his publisher Prime Books. Prime Books is a small print publisher of science fiction,fantasy and horror fiction. Cisco complained that he hadn’t received any royalties from his last book. He determined from watching the traffic on Amazon that he must have sold [...]
Aug 11 2008
I read over at GalleyCat that a new book review blog is starting up called LitMob.com. It’s a very easy to look at blog that is well organized with the rankings easily identified on the left hand side with sparkling stars. The blog has some experienced individuals at its helm. The creators include Doug Perkul, [...]
Aug 11 2008
Overdrive, a company that converts, distributes, and stores digital books and audio books is taking its show on the road. Overdrive has a “Digital Book Mobile” and it is going to take a nationwide tour with a semi truck tricked out with digital audiobooks, eboos, music and videos. It started at the New York Public [...]
Aug 11 2008
Dear Ms. Amber: Once upon a time, my so called friend, Sarah, sent me a book to read. She had told me some bare details about it that raised my eyebrows and I started to read it when I received the book but it wasn’t intriguing enough to continue so I put it aside. But, [...]
Aug 11 2008
I read this on an agent blog today and light of the events that have happened to Sidney Somers at New Concepts Publishing, so I had to ask whether this is normal because it sounds strange to me. Apparently the agent has two clients who have started their own erotic epress. The agent is editing [...]
Aug 11 2008
There have been rumors abounding that Apple has the ability to reach into your phone and remove applications. According to Gizmodo, Apple does indeed have a “kill switch” as they call it, ostensibly to protect iPhone owners such as in the case of a virus or something. I can’t say I like the idea that [...]
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