Dec 21 2010
Starting December 20, The Galaxy Express is hosting the second annual SFR Holiday Blitz. This event features a huge giveaway of over 50 science fiction romance books. 33 authors and 15 bloggers have joined forces to give the gift of intergalactic adventure and romance to readers around the globe. Sample prizes include books by Nalini [...]
Dec 16 2010
I wanted to post this early in the morning. Our reviews will follow later on today. Today is Jane Austen’s birthday and to celebrate Sourcebooks is giving away digital copies of the following books (look for them at your favorite etailer): Eliza's Daughter, by Joan Aiken (Sense and Sensibility continuation) The Darcy's & the Bingley's, [...]
Dec 15 2010
Are you guys up for a bookchat? We are hosting one for The Iron Duke that will be held Saturday night, December 18, beginning at 8 pm CST. We readers will chat for an hour and then the author, Meljean Brook, will appear at 9 pm CST to answer questions. If you haven’t read this [...]
Dec 10 2010
Author emotions may be at an all time high with the release of 4 weeks of limited Bookscan data from Amazon. Yesterday, Amazon rolled out a feature that gives authors who have an account at Amazon the ability to look at 4 weeks of sales data from Bookscan. No Amazon Kindle data, no Amazon direct [...]
Nov 24 2010
Today is the last day of news until next week. The big news today is that Amazon will be selling the Kindle 2 with 3G for $89 beginning 9 AM PST on Friday. There are limited quantities so if you want one of these, I would be sitting in front of my computer at 5 [...]
Nov 22 2010
Kwana emailed me to let us know that Macmillan publishing has launched a new Facebook and twitter account called The Loft. Kwana is the moderator and it is a place to talk about contemporary women's fiction, romance and chicklit. It’s interesting that publishers like Macmillan through Tor.com and now, The Loft, are attempting to create [...]
Nov 11 2010
A day after Amazon released a statement stating that it would not remove an objectionable book containing what the self published author described as a way to be a better pedophile, Amazon has reversed its stance and the book is no longer in the catalog of self published Kindle titles. The controversy reached mainstream with [...]
Nov 10 2010
There is a new Amazon controversy arising out of a self published book by an author (not linking to it because I don’t want to give needless publicity to the book itself) about how to become a better pedophile. A number of people want Amazon to remove the book. The content is certainly disgusting but [...]
Sep 28 2010
This week is banned book week, a week that celebrates literature and reminds us all to remain vigilant against efforts to remove books from our libraries. The books challenged aren’t on how to make a dirty bomb or how to organize your own chapter of the KKK but books that have dirty language in them [...]
Aug 23 2010
There is something about Amazon that brings out the crazy in everyone. First up is some Western author who won some award for the only book he has for sale at Amazon criticizing Susanna Fraser for daring to have a book with the SAME TITLE! I know, egregious isn’t it? I’m very aware that book [...]
Aug 16 2010
It’s a quiet newsday but I had to post this article. Amazon UK has opened and the prices were low because the publishers decided not to impose Agency pricing. The low Amazon prices has spurred a price war and now all ebooks at WH Smith are 50% off. Even with the exchange rate, the prices [...]
Jul 22 2010
Sunita has deemed 2010 as the Year of the Digital Backlist with the news that superagent Andrew Wylie has a) created a digital publishing arm called Odyssey Editions and b) signed a two year exclusive distribution deal with Amazon. From the Amazon Press Release: This is the first time any of the titles–which include Norman [...]
Jul 13 2010
Borders opens its ebook store to the public. It sells epubbed books using the standard epub encryption. Borders ebooks can be read on all devices that read epub. It is fulfilled by Kobo and thus has some backlist title problems which will hopefully be resolved over time. I’m not sure that Borders can gain 17% [...]
Jun 30 2010
This was initially entitled Tuesday’s Midday Links but alas things went astray so I apologize in advance for this post’s length. I know it’s harder to consume the longer it is. Buried in a blog post by the Editors at the New York Times about the search for a new editor for The New York [...]
Jun 28 2010
Because sleep is for the dead, I spent some time in the past few weeks compiling a list of upcoming books. I hope you find this helpful. I have more to add (see the prefatory note on the upcoming books page). ***** In the UK, authors receive a royalty every time someone checks their book [...]
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