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To Save Indies, Publishers Need to ReConsider DRM

To Save Indies, Publishers Need to ReConsider DRM

Yesterday Books on Board posted a notice that it was “temporarily” shuttering the retail portion of its site.  Consumers could still access titles that they had previously purchased but no new purchases could be made.  This leaves some readers who had gift cards without recourse for now. One of the arguments made by publishers when(…)

Friday News: Samhain and Books on Board break up; Candlewick puts real money behind middle grade debut; wacky Ph.D. disseration to study happiness of romance authors

Friday News: Samhain and Books on Board break up; Candlewick puts real money behind middle grade debut; wacky Ph.D. disseration to study happiness of romance authors

Doctoral Dissertation  – Um, what the ever loving heck is this? A doctoral student, working on her dissertation for Capella University’s Department of Psychology wants to mine the psyche of RWA members for a “happiness project.”  The title of her dissertation?  “A grounded theory study of the female members of an enabling institution: Romance Writers(…)

Sunday Midday News:  Publisher Behaving Badly

Sunday Midday News: Publisher Behaving Badly

The Romance Reviews has a great big giveaway going on until August 31, 2010.   Check them out. **** Barnes and Noble is advertising free digital books.   Except these are books that are in the public domain so its a pretty lame promotion, if you ask me.   I did a post a couple of weeks ago(…)

Books on Board’s Beyond Heaving Bosoms Promotion

For twenty four hours, BooksonBoard will offer Beyond Heaving Bosoms for 25% off beginning on April 14 10am cst to April 15 10am cst. Along with 20% off list price all titles by these authors whose books are mentioned in the book: Stephanie Laurens JD Robb/ Nora Roberts Jude Deveraux Kelley Armstrong Patricia Briggs The(…)

Books on Board Promotion for Dear Author A Reviews

This promotion ends tomorrow morning at 10 am CDT but until then you can get  30% off of 5 titles  Dear Author blog  most recently gave an “A” with promo code:  DearAuthor at Books on Board. Go forth and buy. Thanks for the surprise promotion, Books on Board! Send to Kindle

Books on Board Unveils Qik Clik for iPhone/iTouch

        BooksonBoard  unveils  Qik ClikTM  technology which allows users of iPhone and iTouch using Stanza to enjoy a one click checkout.   The consumers’ credit card information is saved and you only need to enter your login information for security purposes. BooksonBoard also has an iPhone friendly site to make browsing easier.   Any purchases you make via Stanza(…)

Stanza Makes Deals with Romance ePublishers

Stanza is an ebook reading program for the iPhone.   It boasts over 500,000 downloads  since it’s debut.   All Romance eBooks, an etailer that carries a number of small epublishers, has it’s own bookshelf whereby it lists the titles available for download.   You select the book you are interested in and an excerpt downloads to your Stanza(…)

Do Exclusive Publisher Portals Make Sense?

Note: I mentioned below that several ebook vendors were having big sales this week including BooksonBoard.   I read the BoB promotion to require a minimum of $100 to get the 50% rebate.   This is not accurate. There is a 50% rebate/reward for each book purchased through today regardless of what you spend. Arstechnica, one of(…)

Books on Board 25% off June Titles

Thinking of the past month and wondering if you should have bought a June title? All of the June titles at Books on Board are 25% off. Here’s some titles you might have missed from our June recommends. Send to Kindle