May 23 2013
Important! My family and I are doing *things* this next week so I’m taking a mini vacation from Dear Author News. We’ll still have our daily reviews and daily deals (of course) but unless I’m feeling really energetic, there won’t be any news again until Wednesday, May 29. That’s when BEA starts and I suspect(…)
May 16 2013
Annoying song but fun music video using animated romance covers. Pretty interesting how they manipulated the photos to animate them. U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing – Apple is the only party left standing in the DOJ’s lawsuit over price fixing. Emails alluded to in filings from the DOJ(…)
Apr 30 2013
Macmillan Finalizes E-book Settlement, Will Pay $26 Million – Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million toward the refund pool along with attorneys’ fees and $1000 to the named plaintiffs as a “service award”. The settlement will be up for approval after a period of public comment. Publishers Weekly Why Still So Few Use Condoms(…)
Apr 26 2013
I came across this picture and this video while browsing Reddit. Rajesh Kumar Sharma founded a free school in the slums of India. Their schoolroom is a space under a bridge. Their blackboards are concrete walls. First world problems are anything that doesn’t include having to gain an education under a bridge in a(…)
Mar 19 2013
The Bestselling E-books of 2012 – Publishers’ Weekly put out a list of sales numbers shared by the publishing houses for books selling more than 25,000 units. It is interesting to see the titles that were originally self published, taken over by publishing houses, and still went on to sell in substantial numbers. Tina Reber’s(…)
Feb 17 2013
I have a number of thoughts running around my head over the Agency pricing resolution and the post settlement state of affairs. 1) Will Agency pricing be brought back in two years. Per the terms of the settlement, publishers’ right to control prices will return in two years. The question is whether the publishers will(…)
Dec 20 2012
A Message from John Sargent – I hardly know what to say in response to John Sargent’s letter to authors, agents, and retailers. I feel that I am being gaslighted. That rational behavior has been supplanted by a made up morality issue. Sargent writes that he intends to press on and litigate against the DOJ(…)
Dec 19 2012
YA Erotica is here – In the UK, Simon & Schuster has released an explicit erotic romance featuring a 16-year old girl involved in a love triangle between a nice guy and a wealthy bad boy. Recently Abbi Glines released her “Vincent Boys Uncut” a $10 remake of her original book featuring explicit sex scenes(…)
Dec 2 2012
Introduction This post is to help ebook buyers understand their rights and deadlines in the price fixing settlement. Minnesotans, this post is not for you. Nor does it apply to those in DC or one of the five Territories or Commonwealths It’s about the ebook price fixing settlement and for some reason, your state or(…)
Nov 7 2012
Sony brings Reader software and bookstore to iOS platform | ZDNet – Sony launches its Reader software for iThings. It might be one of the best OS reading apps available for ePub. You can read Adobe DRM’ed ePubs (and PDFs) along with non encrypted ePubs and PDFs. You can create your own collections as well.(…)
Oct 14 2012
UPDATED: On October 13, 2012, Amazon sent out emails informing customers of their potential recovery under the settlement over price fixing brought by the States Attorneys General. The email informs consumers of their rights which is that they will be entitled to a refund of $0.25 – $1.32 per book and that they have the(…)
Oct 11 2012
Yesterday around 3-4 pm CST, Amazon engaged in some weird pricing shenanigans with several books (who knows how many) getting a 31% off treatment. Initially some on the Amazon boards thought it signaled the end of agency for Simon & Schuster but after investigating, I noticed that several Macmillan books were also 31% off. I’m(…)
Oct 5 2012
Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Yesterday, Barnes & Noble and Microsoft announced that it finalized the formation of a new company called Nook Media which will focus on the college and digital markets. Microsoft invested $300 million for an approximate 17.6% equity stake and B&N will own the remaining 82.4% stake. “One of the first(…)
Sep 21 2012
Wait, it’s Friday already? Universal-EMI Merger Could Yield New Mega-Label To Threaten The Future Of Music – Did the internet ruin record labels? I mean, Napster, Pandora, the decline of the CD and the rise of the low priced single heralded the end of labels, right? Apparently not. The four largest record labels currently control(…)
Sep 20 2012
Pisarze w slipkach | Booklips.pl – A collection of male writers in their underwear (or possibly swimming trunks). It’s not what you may think (or maybe it is). Booklips.pl Hachette to raise ebook prices for libraries by 220% – Hachette has followed in the footsteps of HarperCollins and RandomHouse by jacking up the cost of digital(…)
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