Dec 22 2011
News The Kindle App for iOS has been updated so that you can now email yourself documents (mobi, pdf, word) and read those files on your Kindle App. This feature used to be only for Kindle device owners and it is one of my favorite features offered by Amazon. Amazon gives you an email address [...]
Sep 21 2011
I’m reposting these deals in case someone missed them yesterday. Halfway to the Grave with Bonus Material: A Night Huntress Novel for $1.99 * Amazon | nook | Kobo Cassie Palmer Series: Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night and Curse the Dawn in one bundle by Karen Chance for $7.51 – Amazon | [...]
Jul 19 2011
One of the things I did at RWA was meet with industry people. Okay that’s all I did but I actually got something accomplished besides doing interviews. I met with Anne Watters Westpheling from Scribd and she shared with me their new App. It’s called Float and it’s designed to bring together your social media [...]
Jul 14 2011
Google has partnered with iRiver to introduce a new ebook reader to the market. This will be sold at Target and online. PC World has a really good review of the device. The pro of the device is that it has the crispest screen of any eink device on the market. The cons? Poor software [...]
Jun 3 2011
On Tuesday (I think it was Tuesday), I downloaded the teaser chapters of Connie Brockway’s Amazon Montlake book. Amazon Montlake, you’ll recall, is Amazon’s romance imprint. The teaser chapters are designed to promote Brockway’s book and encourage you to buy the title when it is released in November. I am excited about Brockway’s releases. I’ve [...]
Apr 14 2011
At RT, there were dozens of workshops about self publishing. I sat on a panel myself with HP Mallory and Mark Coker. HP Mallory has sold over 130,000 copies of her self published books and has scored a 6 figure deal with Random House for publication of three forthcoming titles. As I sat next to [...]
Mar 24 2011
DABWAHA Voting started up again. Courtney Milan and Loretta Chase are dueling it out in a very close race. **** Borders romance buyer, Sue Grimshaw, will be the new Editor at Large and Category Specialist for Random House acquiring “selective romance titles for hardcover, paperback and original digital lists”. Original digital lists. Sounds like Random [...]
Feb 16 2011
This morning, Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy which is an attempt to discharge (get rid of) bad debt and reorganize itself into a profitable business. According to the report in Publishers’ Weekly, Borders will close around 30% of its stores. Borders has 642 stores and plans to close 200 of them. Borders’ bankruptcy will [...]
Jan 31 2011
Ariana Franklin aka Diana Norman passed away on January 27, 2011. This news came to me on Saturday and I passed it on immediately to Jayne. She’s a huge fan of Franklin’s books and wrote me back to tell me she was “desolate.” Franklin’s historical mystery series ended with a cliffhanger and thus the outcome [...]
Jan 6 2011
Publisher talks with Borders do not appear to be promising according to the Publishers’ Weekly article. Brian Keene (who broke news about Dorchester) states that several Borders employees reported to him that they have been told to look for other jobs. Sarah Weinman, over at Daily Finance, says that Barnes & Noble will pick up [...]
Jan 5 2011
It seems that every year there are reports that Borders is struggling financially; that payments will be late; that new financing must be obtained. Every year, Borders manages to cobble together new financing and new debt agreements to keep the doors open to one of the oldest brick and mortar chains in the US and [...]
Jan 1 2011
Samhain freebies: 1/1/2011 to 1/31/2011 Oleander House by Ally Blue 1/1/2011 to 1/14/2011 Rough Cut by Mari Carr 1/15/2011 to 1/28/2011 Big Girls Don’t Die by Crystal Jordan 12/15/2010 to 1/15/2011 Going All In by Jess Dee 12/15/2010 to 1/15/2011 Make Mine Midnight by Annmarie McKenna 12/15/2010 to 1/15/2011 The Bite of Silence by Mary Hughes 12/15/2010 to [...]
Dec 10 2010
Author emotions may be at an all time high with the release of 4 weeks of limited Bookscan data from Amazon. Yesterday, Amazon rolled out a feature that gives authors who have an account at Amazon the ability to look at 4 weeks of sales data from Bookscan. No Amazon Kindle data, no Amazon direct [...]
Dec 8 2010
Susan Mallery is an author whose promotional work intrigues me. My responses to her novels have been all over the place from loathe to love but, for the most part, I find her promotional voice works, in part because I never get the sense that she is selling me anything even though that is probably [...]
Dec 6 2010
Google Books launches today. The prices for the non agency books are very competitive which is good for us consumers as I doubt that Amazon will want to be undersold (Barnes and Noble tends to price slightly higher). At the bottom of the page, you can see that Romance is a featured category at Google [...]
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