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Thursday News: Apple claims 20% of ebook market; Amazon axes Audible honorarium; Catagator calls for more sexually empowering YA

Thursday News: Apple claims 20% of ebook market; Amazon axes Audible honorarium; Catagator calls for more sexually empowering YA

Stacked: Female Sexuality in YA Fiction: Exploring the Range of Experiences – Catagator discusses the need for YA books to have a more sexually empowering message. It should be noted that Catagator isn’t calling for all YA books to have sex in them or for all YA books to have one particular type of sex,(…)

Monday News: SFF old guard

Monday News: SFF old guard

Apparently last week, the Science Fiction and Fantasy authors awoke to a disturbing news that women are writing Science Fiction Fantasy books and what is worse, there may be a huge influx of Science Fiction Romance.  This  agony over women writers in the SFF space likely arises over a sense of fear of marginalization. Women(…)

Thursday News: Apple withheld app approval from Random House says DOJ; Self published book shortlisted for Commonwealth prize; Trade sales up because of ebooks

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(…)

Friday News: 2 inspirational videos, a Reader Review program, and an ebook comparison site

Friday News: 2 inspirational videos, a Reader Review program, and an ebook comparison site

Given that news makes you depressed, I thought I would share two videos with you that I thought were particularly inspiring. The first was recorded last night, I believe, and is the beginning of the Boston Bruins game. The singer begins the national anthem but the crowd begins to sing along and when they do,(…)

Monday News: Come see me and Julie James in Naperville IL

Monday News: Come see me and Julie James in Naperville IL

I’m interviewing author Julie James at the Lady Jane’s Salon in Naperville IL, in conjunction with her new release “Love Irresistibly” which I did love.  I’m not sure what questions I’ll be asking her (so if you have any ideas, let me know).  But we would love to have you attend. It is as Le(…)

Friday News: Apple files for used digital good sales patent; B&N announces video licenses; Publisher rails against protection racket of bookstores; Readers beware

Friday News: Apple files for used digital good sales patent; B&N announces video licenses; Publisher rails against protection racket of bookstores; Readers beware

At Writer’s Unboxed yesterday (post has since been removed), the blog post was from an author (not a romance author) who was unhappy with the way in which readers interacted with her.  She enumerated several questions she didn’t like including the impertinent ones about money (how much do you make) and manuscript review (will you(…)

Friday News: Hachette’s Forever and Forever Imprint announces major expansion; Apple iWatch coming; Copyright dispute bans Germans from viewing German meteor video

Germans can’t see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute – Last week a meteorite fell in Russia. Apparently there are hundreds of citizens who have dash cams and many recorded some amazing video of the meteor’s fall into our atmosphere. In one video, the radio is playing and a German rights group is demanding(…)

Wednesday News: CBS interferes with the CES best of show; Apple’s price maintenance; Harlequin’s Bachelor covers

Wednesday News: CBS interferes with the CES best of show; Apple’s price maintenance; Harlequin’s Bachelor covers

CBS says it won’t interfere in CNET’s ‘actual news,’ just reviews – At the end of CES, the Hopper DVR by DISH was voted best of the conference until CBS forced its subsidiary CNET employees to overturn their votes. CBS is in litigation with DISH and didn’t want DISH to be receiving any award. While(…)

Must Have Apps for your iOS Tablet

Must Have Apps for your iOS Tablet

Dropbox + Airfile (free) Despite the security concerns that exist around Dropbox, it is one of the easiest cloud storage programs on the market to use.  You designate a folder on your harddrive as the Dropbox folder and anything you place in there is instantly synced with the cloud. On the road, you can access(…)

Friday News: New crowdsourced publishing effort for YA reads; Congress works hard to erode privacy; Horrible people try to profit off the internet.

Friday News: New crowdsourced publishing effort for YA reads; Congress works hard to erode privacy; Horrible people try to profit off the internet.

Swoon Reads Introduces Crowdsourced Publishing Model – Macmillan is taking up where HarperCollins Inkpop left off. HarperCollins launched Inkpop in 2010 and invited writers to come and share their material with others. HarperCollins acquired at least one manuscript from the writers on Inkpop. HC sold Inkpop to Figment in 2012. For Macmillan, Swoon Reads invites(…)

Friday News: The anti woman beat goes on; Penguin + Random House merger contemplated;

Friday News: The anti woman beat goes on; Penguin + Random House merger contemplated;

Apple’s 2012 Q4 earnings report – Apple’s stock decreased slightly with the news of decreased iPad sales against expectations which seemed pretty robust to me, but I’m not a Wall Street trader. Reuters – International sales accounted for 60 percent of quarter’s revenue – Forecasts Q1 2013 revenue about $52 billion; share about $11.75 Amazon(…)

Thursday News: iPad Mini is here; 3D printing produces a drone; EU to close Etailers Tax Dodge

Thursday News: iPad Mini is here; 3D printing produces a drone; EU to close Etailers Tax Dodge

The iPad Mini is here, finally.  The specs are a 7.9″ diagonal screen with the same resolution as an iPad 2 (which I still own and use. I think the iPad 2 is a great device and while the Retina screen is sharper and clearer, I’ve never felt the lack).  The actual device size is(…)

Monday News: Johnny Depp gets his own imprint; ISPs and Copyright megaliths create their own enforcement center; Apple loses in the UK

Monday News: Johnny Depp gets his own imprint; ISPs and Copyright megaliths create their own enforcement center; Apple loses in the UK

Johnny Depp Imprint – I don’t really get the idea behind this but apparently it is believed that if Johnny Depp’s name is on the imprint, then people will buy the books. The first book from the Johnny Depp imprint, a part of HarperCollins, is The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan by Douglas Brinkley. Associated(…)

Monday News:  Creepshots, Doxxing, and Victimology; iPad Mini news; FTC after Google

Monday News: Creepshots, Doxxing, and Victimology; iPad Mini news; FTC after Google

Exclusive: FTC moving closer to Google antitrust case – “Four of the FTC commissioners have become convinced after more than a year of investigation that Google illegally used its dominance of the search market to hurt its rivals, while one commissioner is skeptical, the sources said.” The charges are that Google is requiring companies to(…)

Monday News: More Bestselling Fraud; Love iPhone? Buy Samsung; Pentagon threatens action against Navy SEAL author

Monday News: More Bestselling Fraud; Love iPhone? Buy Samsung; Pentagon threatens action against Navy SEAL author

Happy Labor Day to the U.S. folks. VoterRegistration – This is an open source web app that is designed to help any person, no matter party affiliation, to register to vote. November is just under 60 days away and a U.S. citizen’s most precious right is the right to have a say in how she(…)