Apr 16 2012
Experts Consider How Apple E-Book Suit Will Impact Business, Regulation – I’m fairly irritated with the coverage of the DOJ lawsuit over prices. Let me clarify a few things. First, there is no law against pursuing or acquiring a monopoly. Second, there is no prohibition against a manufacturer or a publisher from setting prices and [...]
Jul 22 2011
For any and all prospective employers, here is a list of Borders’ employees who are on LinkedIn. And here is a blog designed to collate job postings that may be of interest to those employees. **** Sad about the ending of the series “Hermione Granger”? A poster laments the end of the series and looks [...]
Jan 24 2011
First up is the non controversial good stuff. New Releases. We have the Coming Soon picture catalog ready for viewing. The author promo thread and reader open thread are up and running. We brought back the “recent comments” feature. We took it down because it seemed to be slowing down the site so let us [...]
May 18 2010
Allow me to tell you a story. Recently, I had the honor of premiering a cover for a science fiction romance book on my blog. The cover for R. Garland Gray's Darkscape: First Heir excited me because it had a combination of SF and romance elements that hit the right balance. Naturally, I'm thinking, this [...]
Feb 25 2009
I’m of the opinion that this looks like a 10 year old and I feel dirty looking at it. Angie James posted it on her twitter and wanted to know what the genre was. I guessed wrong. What about you?
Feb 2 2009
Ars Technica has a fabulous (but lengthy) post about ebooks and the evolving publisher response (mostly not helpful). Ars is waiting for Apple to take up the mantle of ebooks like it did with music. I think it won’t. Apple’s focused on gaming and why not? Video game sales were about the only entertainment item [...]
May 13 2008
Given that the 2007 Cover Contest voting is underway, I thought this would be the appropriate time to post my cover post. Because this is an image heavy article, you’ll have to click the “more” link to read the entirety of the article. I’m talking about trends in covers and cover identification today. There was [...]
Apr 30 2008
The Cover Cafe 2007 contest is open for voting. There are seven categories and ten finalists per category. Go on over and vote for the best covers in 2007.
Jul 23 2007
Don’t like the covers on your books (me neither)? Kate Spade has some downloadable covers for your books. I don’t know if they will last or whether they fit a paperback as they use hardcovers for examples but they are free. On Kate’s summer reading list is one that Jayne read and recommended: The Year [...]
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