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May 16 2013

Thursday News: Apple withheld app approval from Random House says DOJ; Self published book shortlisted for Commonwealth prize; Trade sales up because of ebooks

Annoying song but fun music video using animated romance covers. Pretty interesting how they manipulated the photos to animate them. U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing – Apple is the only party left standing in the DOJ’s lawsuit over price fixing. Emails alluded to in filings from the DOJ(…)

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Designing the look of a genre, by accident: Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations

May 15 2013

Designing the look of a genre, by accident: Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations

If you look at the top selling New Adult books on the market, you may be surprised to learn that they are almost all created by the same cover designer, one Sarah from Okay Creations.  Sarah is so identifiable and that there is a goodreads list designated just for her.  Her client list reads like(…)

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Friday News: B&N and S&S standoff doesn’t appear to be hurting S&S; AAR Lynn Spencer notices a decline in historicals; Cover Cafe Annual Contest is now on! Go Vote!

May 3 2013

Friday News: B&N and S&S standoff doesn’t appear to be hurting S&S; AAR Lynn Spencer notices a decline in historicals; Cover Cafe Annual Contest is now on! Go Vote!

Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but the growth isn’t in adult(…)

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Monday News: Strange musings from Harper Magazine publisher; cover WTFery; Google’s cure for passwords

Jan 21 2013

Monday News: Strange musings from Harper Magazine publisher; cover WTFery; Google’s cure for passwords

Google’s Media Barons – John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, has published a strange op ed piece arguing that Google is engaged in “for profit theft” by providing “logistical support for pirating and repackaging everything that we writers, editors, and publishers hold dear.” I’m not exactly sure what MacArthur is accusing Google of(…)

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Wednesday News: CBS interferes with the CES best of show; Apple’s price maintenance; Harlequin’s Bachelor covers

Jan 16 2013

Wednesday News: CBS interferes with the CES best of show; Apple’s price maintenance; Harlequin’s Bachelor covers

CBS says it won’t interfere in CNET’s ‘actual news,’ just reviews – At the end of CES, the Hopper DVR by DISH was voted best of the conference until CBS forced its subsidiary CNET employees to overturn their votes. CBS is in litigation with DISH and didn’t want DISH to be receiving any award. While(…)

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Monday News: A small suggestion for cover art change; US leads in under 50 male deaths; Harlequin + Bachelor cover photo sneak peek

Jan 14 2013

Monday News: A small suggestion for cover art change; US leads in under 50 male deaths; Harlequin + Bachelor cover photo sneak peek

Analyzing 2012?s Bestselling Books and Ebooks in the US and UK | Publishing Perspectives – Mainstream publishing in 2012 was hit driven and over half of the 2012 bestselling books where either 50 Shades or Hunger Games titles. The only other selling book of note was a Wimpy Kid title. I’d be interested in knowing(…)

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Wednesday News: New issues of copyright arise with 3D printing; B&N pulls Amazon titles off the shelves; Japan’s Louve Joule

Oct 3 2012

Wednesday News: New issues of copyright arise with 3D printing; B&N pulls Amazon titles off the shelves; Japan’s Louve Joule

Barnes & Noble reportedly instructs local stores to pull Amazon titles – Some Barnes & Noble stores were carrying Amazon published books until it was reported by blogger MobyLives (who has several Amazon is killing publishing posts). Now B&N has sent a company wide email instructing those books to be removed from the shelves. The lack(…)

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Tuesday links: The Rise of Gonorrhea; the fall of book covers (aka digital killing everything good in literature)

Sep 25 2012

Tuesday links: The Rise of Gonorrhea; the fall of book covers (aka digital killing everything good in literature)

Fanfiction – Deb sent me a link to this video. It’s a rather fun look at fan fiction including a historical aspect. Did you know that someone published a sequel to Don Quixote? Unauthorized?Know Your Meme Hold the front page: cover art is going out of fashion – James Bridle suggests that ereaders have no(…)

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Guest Post: Brave New World (What I’ve Learned About Cover Designs for Digital Publishing

Sep 11 2012

Guest Post: Brave New World (What I’ve Learned About Cover Designs for Digital Publishing

The book cover as a marketing tool interests me. Whenever there is a good blog post or a talk, I stop and pay attention. But most of the available opinion, advice, and debate I’ve come across are centered around physical publishing, when a cover is meant to fetch you from across the store and get(…)

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Are Paper Books Sacrosanct?

Aug 19 2012

Are Paper Books Sacrosanct?

Lauren Conrad, infamously of The Hills, had a Youtube video of her demonstrating how to hollow out books to make a small storage item. Home stores sell these fake hallowed out books by the crateful. Yet, there was a huge number of negative comments for Conrad’s video protesting the destruction of these books and the(…)

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Monday News: Tilt Shift Photography; Changes in Romance Covers; YA Self Censorship

Jul 16 2012

Monday News: Tilt Shift Photography; Changes in Romance Covers; YA Self Censorship

30 Tremendous Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography – “Tilt-Shift photography is an amazing part of talent in which photographer utilizes his skills and technique of photography that develops tilt-shift lenses to beat the boundaries of strength of ground and outlook that normal lenses present” Bloggs 74 Let’s start the day out with something cool. I love tilt(…)

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Tuesday Midday Links:Least Helpful Amazon Reviews; Pub Exec Admits to Stripping DRM

Apr 24 2012

Tuesday Midday Links:Least Helpful Amazon Reviews; Pub Exec Admits to Stripping DRM

  Jim C. Hines – Posing Like a Man – Jim Hines recreates a series of mantitty covers and comes to some interesting conclusions about the objectification of men on covers (it’s almost always positive). Karen Knows Best – “It hasn’t passed my attention that within romance, enhanced breasts are usually hung on the ‘bitchy(…)

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Monday Midday Links and Deals: Penny Jordan Has Passed Away

Jan 2 2012

Monday Midday Links and Deals: Penny Jordan Has Passed Away

News Penny Jordan has passed away at the age of 65.  She had been very ill with cancer.  Jordan published over 188 books beginning with her first one in 1981, discovered from the slush pile at Mills & Boon.  I’ve enjoyed many a Penny Jordan book.  I wish her family well. Source: Harlequin ******* Publishing(…)

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Monday Midday News: Kindle Touch and Fire Reviews; Black Friday eReader Deals

Nov 14 2011

Monday Midday News: Kindle Touch and Fire Reviews; Black Friday eReader Deals

The Kindle devices have been released to the media and there are a few reviews.  Of the Fire, reviewers say the it is easy to access Amazon content and if all you want to do is consume media rather than create, the Fire is probably the right kind of device for you, particularly at the(…)

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Thursday Midday Links: What’s a Little Cover Art Copying Between Friends?

Aug 18 2011

Thursday Midday Links: What’s a Little Cover Art Copying Between Friends?

Author LK Rigel’s self published book, Spiderwork, has a gorgeous cover. So gorgeous that HarperCollins contacted the artist to purchase it from her. The artist refused. No matter, thinks HarperCollins.  (Updated: the cover art for Bewitching will now be changed) In an email, Nathalie Suellen, the artist, shared she was originally contacted by writer LK(…)

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