Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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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