April 2009

Apr 1 2009

Authors Guild Continues Overreaching. Claims Olfactory Rights Belong to Author

Authors Guild is determined to further alienate ebook readers with its latest cease and desist order. There is a new startup company called DuroSport that is hawking a “Smell of Book” product. I suppose it is to address those who fetishize the smell of books and can’t give up paper books for digital copies because [...]

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Mar 30 2009

This Week’s Ebook Specials

Orbit is offering  AFRAID by   Jack Kilborn as an eBook available for $1.99 for the month of April.   Winterbirth by  Brian Ruckley  is Orbit’s $1.00 title.    Ruckley’s new release, Fall of Thanes, will be available on 5/3/09 and the other title in the series, Bloodheir, is also available in ebook format.   (Someone seems to be listening to [...]

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