JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Borders / iPad / Kindle / Nook / Sony37 Comments

Steve Jobs was interviewed by Walt Mossberg after the iPad event. (I cringe everytime I have to write iPad. Maybe I’ll just call it iSlate). Jobs states that he believes the prices in the iBookstore will match other prices online and that publishers will be withholding books from Amazon, presumably ... more >

January 21, 2010

Thursday Midday Links: Take a Cowboy Home

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Harlequin has posted a behind the scenes look at a cover shoot for the upcoming trilogy by Linda Lael Miller: They obviously put a lot of thought and time into the covers. You know who I think romanticized cowboys for me? Louis L’Amour. I remember devouring his Sackett series as ... more >

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Dr. Sarah Frantz (aka Joan here at Dear Author) has an article published in the Jane Austen Society of North America. You can read the entire article here in which Dr. Frantz talks about the legacy of Darcy in the post modern romance novel. It’s all about the hero. **** ... more >

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The winners of the CL Wilson, Queen of Song and Souls are as follows: Pamk stephanie Rexe Julie Sharon I have sent you an email. **** Inside the Higher Ed blog has another piece on technology and scholarship. This time, Alex Golub laments the shift of readers from paper texts ... more >

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I woke up and Twitter was alive with the news that Simon & Schuster was making a huge change to its organizational structure. Simon Spotlight Entertainment and Pocket Books will be reconfigured. All the hardcovers and trade books that were once Pocket Books or SSE will now be Gallery Books. ... more >

August 26, 2009

Wednesday Day Midday Links: Jane Friedman looking at romance books?

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So yesterday the article I read about Jane Friedman’s $3 million capital venture gave me the impression that she was looking to move books into movies. Today on Galley Cat, there is some suggestion that her new venture is a digital publishing one and that she is looking to bring ... more >