Dec 8 2011
In March 2011, EU raided publishers’ offices looking for evidence of price fixing. Despite this, the agency model began to roll out this summer and now EU has officially opened an investigation into price fixing. “The Commission will in particular investigate whether these publishing groups and Apple have engaged in illegal agreements or practices that(…)
Oct 27 2011
Kobo is entering the self publishing/publishing realm. To agents and others, this will come as no surprise. Kobo has been meeting with agents, hiring content editors, and with its major competitors thriving in the self publishing space, this is an inevitable move. Kobo currently has a deal with Smashwords to supply self published content. It(…)
Sep 16 2011
Dear Ms. Krentz: My favorite thing about your books is the interaction of your main characters and your dry wit that seeps through the dialogue. ”Canyons of the Night” is set in the same world as the Jayne Castle series that involves glowing green alien artifacts, rezzed amber, and dust bunnies. The idea behind this(…)
Sep 9 2011
Dear Ms. Goodman: Most of your writing works well for me so it probably comes as no surprise that this is one of my favorite historicals published this month. In the foothills of Sierra Nevada, the year 1850, two miners come upon the remains of a wagon train and in amongst a pile of rocks,(…)
Sep 4 2011
On June 21, 2011, BN happily announced $7 billion in sales due, in part, to a 50% increase in sales at BN.com. The WSJ’s lead in the July 20, 2011, article is “Meet Barnes & Noble Inc., software company.” The original nook was announced in October 2009 and released in November of 2009. At that time, it(…)
Aug 23 2011
Booklamp.org is up and running. Booklamp professes to be a Pandora for books. It does not have much content for romances. It looks to be publisher specific. Random House and Simon & Schuster have books and authors present but Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette do not. Harlequin also seems absent. Searching Nora Roberts pulls up(…)
Aug 10 2011
First up is this trailer of Maya Banks’ Highlander series. Men in Kilts. It’s must watch YouTube. (It is also part of the auction that Maya Banks won in support of our blogger friend, Fatin, when she lost her husband in a senseless shooting. Tessa Dare put it together and it features, amongst other things,(…)
Jun 7 2011
I believe it was June 1 when Amazon launched its Sunshine Deals. Sunshine Deals highlighted over 600 books that were all promotionally priced at $2.99 and under. (U.S. Residents only). I’ve been watching these deals and the books since Sunday as well as the news articles surrounding the deals. Dan Lubart from eBook Market Views(…)
May 30 2011
Dear Ms. Noble, This is the story of a Duke and a Scholar. But you know that already. Winnifred Crane is an art historian. She is also female, as both her name and the attached pronoun would suggest. It doesn’t matter that she’s brilliant. It doesn’t matter that she’s turned the art history world on(…)
May 25 2011
Dear Ms. Kramer: Let me share how I came about to read this book. When the first book, When Harry Met Molly, was published I was immediately caught by the title. It was cute. Like an LOLCat. I read it and thought it was enjoyable, well written, but a bit on the kitschy side. Kind(…)
Mar 2 2011
The big news in the tech world is that Apple is debuting the iPad 2 today which will be lighter and have better resolution and thus be more attractive to those ebook reading folk. I feel super conflicted about Apple because it is acting like such an asshat about allowing content into its stores. John(…)
Feb 28 2011
Update: I took some screenshots of prices last night to see how the new Agency prices would compare. Random House’s digital book prices appear to be equal for mass market, $9.99 for trades, and varying prices for hardcovers. As of March 1, 2011, Random House will move from its existing retail relationship to Agency(…)
Jan 31 2011
Ariana Franklin aka Diana Norman passed away on January 27, 2011. This news came to me on Saturday and I passed it on immediately to Jayne. She’s a huge fan of Franklin’s books and wrote me back to tell me she was “desolate.” Franklin’s historical mystery series ended with a cliffhanger and thus the outcome(…)
Jan 16 2011
Dear Jane: Hi, I was wondering if y’all might know if any of the big publishers (Putnam in particular) have some sort of ebook deal with Amazon and B&N to exclude some of the smaller ebook retailers out there? I don’t remember you mentioning anything like this in your blog before. The reason I ask(…)
Nov 23 2010
Yesterday, I received an email from HarperCollins that it was shuttering its ebookstore (used to be called PerfectBound) as of November 19 and that customers would only have until December 19, 2010 to redownload their purchases. After the December 19, 2010, date, titles purchased through the HC eBook Store would not be accessible. (I thought(…)
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