Publishing News
Author Promotion, best of list, Borders, ebook sales, social media, Twitter
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… more
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Barnes & Noble, Borders, Google Book Settlement, Literary Criticism
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… more
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Amazon, Borders, Intellectual Property Issues, lawsuits, Macmillan, multicultural, Sony Reader, SourceBooks
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… more
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Amazon, best seller lists, Borders, censorship
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… more
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Borders, HarperCollins, lgbt, Literary Criticism, Orbit, Random-House, SourceBooks, Stephanie Draven
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… more
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Book Reviews, book-sales, Borders, ereader device, genre critique, Random-House, Sony Reader, Urban-Fantasy
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… more