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May 13 2013

Monday News: Mark Coker of Smashwords suggests that $3.99 is the new black; Copyright reform for consumers introduced to Congress; Gender hypocrisy exists outside romance

Smashwords: New Smashwords Survey Helps Authors Sell More eBooks – Mark Coker shares some Smashwords data with the public. How much of this can be extrapolated to overall sales is unknown. Some interesting points include that the #1 bestselling book outsells the #500 by 37 times in total revenue; longer books sell better; and $2.99(…)

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Monday News: Fabio retrospective; Racine man banned from all the libraries ever; Are gay white male books only parenthical inclusion?

Mar 18 2013

Monday News: Fabio retrospective; Racine man banned from all the libraries ever; Are gay white male books only parenthical inclusion?

Fabio’s 54th Birthday Is Just A Good Excuse To Revisit His Best Book Covers – Fabio turned 54 last week and Huffington Post celebrated by reviewing his 40 top book covers. I had forgotten he was on the cover of Arnette Lamb’s books. I LOVED those Scottish historicals and would love to see those reissued.(…)

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Monday Midday Links: More on the DOJ suit, Cover Testing, Fake reviews

Apr 16 2012

Monday Midday Links: More on the DOJ suit, Cover Testing, Fake reviews

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(…)

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Friday Midday Links: A Retrospective of the Amazing Hermione Granger Series

Jul 22 2011

Friday Midday Links: A Retrospective of the Amazing Hermione Granger Series

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(…)

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Monday Midday Links: More YA Whitewashing?

Jan 24 2011

Monday Midday Links: More YA Whitewashing?

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(…)

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May 18 2010

My Big Fat Cover Rant from Heather, The Galaxy Express

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(…)

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WTF Cover Poll

Feb 25 2009

WTF Cover Poll

[poll id="155"] 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? Send to Kindle

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Feb 2 2009

Monday Night Links of Ebook Opinion

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(…)

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Cover Identification

May 13 2008

Cover Identification

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(…)

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Apr 30 2008

2007 Cover Cafe Contest Open

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. Send to Kindle

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Jul 23 2007

Kate Spade Covers Your Trashy Novels

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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