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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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Thursday Midday Links: Earning Statements Time for Publishers

May 6 2010

Thursday Midday Links: Earning Statements Time for Publishers

Cover Cafe ballot for the best and the worst covers of 2009 is up and ready for your votes. **** RWA is going to Disney! Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort will be hosting the 2010 RWA Conference due to the flooding in Nashville. The rooms are super reasonable: $149 for two AND free(…)

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Jul 8 2008

2007 Cover Cafe Contest Results Are In

The 2007 Cover Cafe results are in and the winners may or may not surprise you. I think I voted for several of the winners although the two cover winner is not my favorite. I loved the comment by Karmyn on the worst cover on Big Spankable Asses. “But this gets my vote because that(…)

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Apr 30 2008

2007 Cover Cafe Contest Open

The Cover Cafe 2007 contest is open for voting. There are seven categories and ten finalists per category. Go on over and vote for the best covers in 2007. Send to Kindle

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2007 Cover Contests Results Are In

Jun 12 2007

2007 Cover Contests Results Are In

The 2007 Cover Contest results are in. Go take a peak. The “worst” cover comments are hysterical. My favorite was Cover Cafà©'s Mary Lynne on Evangeline Anderson’s cover, Take Two: Double my horror, double my revulsion, double my distaste, double my shock….and why is the poor planet Saturn, or whatever ringed planet that is supposed(…)

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In Praise of the Man Titty

May 8 2007

In Praise of the Man Titty

"A book’s cover is absolutely the single most important thing about the physical object that is a book.” –  Betsy Groban, Little, Brown and Company, Inc. (login required). The cover of your book is the single most important promotional element. – Dick Claassen, Editor Awe-struck books. I bought Dark Lover because of the cover, the(…)

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Cover Contest Now Open

Apr 20 2007

Cover Contest Now Open

The Annual Cover Contest is now open for voting. Voting closes on May 11, 2007, so it will behoove those interested to go over and vote now. Send to Kindle

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Jan 8 2007

2006 Cover Contest Open for Nominations

Do you enjoy the cover contest run by readers at The Cover Cafe? Now is the time to nominate the best and the worst of 2006. Link here. Send to Kindle

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