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Fools Gold Magazine
December 8, 2010

Wednesday Midday Links: What kind of author promotion works for you?

JanePublishing NewsAuthor Promotion / best of list / Borders / ebook sales / social media / Twitter70 Comments

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 ... more >

Google Books featured romance
December 6, 2010

Monday Midday Links: Google Books Launches

JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Borders / Google Book Settlement / Literary Criticism18 Comments

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 ... more >

Sony Reader App
November 22, 2010

Monday Midday Links: How the King James Bible Has Shaped Our Language

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Borders / Intellectual Property Issues / lawsuits / Macmillan / multicultural / Sony Reader / SourceBooks13 Comments

Kwana emailed me to let us know that Macmillan publishing has launched a new Facebook and twitter account called The Loft. Kwana is the moderator and it is a place to talk about contemporary women's fiction, romance and chicklit.   It’s interesting that publishers like Macmillan through Tor.com and now, The ... more >

November 11, 2010

Thursday Midday Links: Amazon Bows to Pressure & Bluefire Brings Digital Lending to iThings

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / best seller lists / Borders / censorship40 Comments

A day after Amazon released a statement stating that it would not remove an objectionable book containing what the self published author described as a way to be a better pedophile, Amazon has reversed its stance and the book is no longer in the catalog of self published Kindle titles. ... more >

orbit book drop
October 7, 2010

Thursday Midday Links: Borders’ Corporate Building List for Sale

JanePublishing NewsBorders / HarperCollins / LGBTQ / Literary Criticism / Orbit / Random-House / SourceBooks / Stephanie Draven46 Comments

This is really a week’s worth of stuff in one post so excuse the length: Next week we are going to celebrate National Coming Out Day and the “It Get’s Better” movement started by Dan Savage: ***** With all the layoffs and downsizing, Borders has no need for the space ... more >

September 1, 2010

Tuesday Midday Links: New Readers, New Prices

JanePublishing NewsBook Reviews / book-sales / Borders / ereader device / genre critique / Random-House / Sony Reader / Urban-Fantasy20 Comments

Sony quietly launched its new ereaders with a strategy designed to capture a more global market.   The three models have been revamped to all feature touch screens.   The readers have the same Pearl Ink screen as the Kindle which means better, clearer, crisper text.   They all have touch screens which ... more >

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