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Thursday Midday Links: Q&A with Maya Banks

I can hardly believe it is already Thursday. The holiday shortened week (for the US readers) and last week’s RWA conference has me all mixed up. Hopefully I will get caught up by Sunday. Item number one today is the news that we are going to host a Q&A with Maya Banks. Why Maya Banks?(…)

Friday Midday Links: MWA Breaks Up With Harlequin

Explicit sex is hard to write well and even if you do write it well, it means you are just packaging up pornography for women. Also, bla bla bla, romance books are killing romance bla bla bla. All according to this   article by Alan Elsner.   I don’t plan to comment over there because Alan Elsner(…)

Borders Reinventing Itself & Severing Relationship with Amazon

Due to increased competition from both brick and mortar and online bookstores, Borders opened a new concept store it hopes will eventually increase sales.   Most of the store looks like the competition except for an area described as a digital center.      At this new digital center one could download music to their mp3 player,(…)