digital lending

Wednesday News: Invitation to grill Nalini Singh

Wednesday News: Invitation to grill Nalini Singh

Monday, June 10 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Nalini Singh in conversation with Jane Litte of Dear Author! ANDERSON’S BOOKSHOP 123 W Jefferson Ave Naperville, IL 60540 Tel: 630-355-2665 Anderson’s offers “priority numbers” to readers in order to be at the front of Nalini’s signing line. You can receive a priority number by purchasing your(…)

Monday News: Amazon App adds accessibility features; Nook adds Google Play; Graphic Novels at libraries increasing

Revenge porn victim speaks about years of torment after ex-boyfriend put X-rated photos of her online – The article isn’t so much the story for me. Instead it was the comments that blamed the victim for her ex boyfriend’s callous vindictiveness. Holly dated a man, sent him provocative pictures. When he broke up with her,(…)

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!

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(…)

Is there an answer to Scott Turow’s lament

Scott Turow has taken his lumps around the internet for his bombatic lengthy editorial on the NYTimes. Turow targeted everyone from readers and libraries to search engines as contributing to the death of the American author. But Turow’s lament offers no solutions, only complaints. The main crux of his argument is that the current system(…)

Friday News: Waterstones to introduce subscription plan for shorts and serials; China’s bookshops move to second floor; ALA responds to Turow

Waterstones founder to launch Spotify-like service for books in 2013 – Waterstones is launching a digital service that SlashGear calls Spotify-like but instead seems like a modern day version of the lending library, only the content will be limited to short stories and serialized content. The program will be called “Read Petite” and the “service(…)

Thursday News: Apple spoof; Message Board is shut down; Jane Goodall’s book full of plagiarism

Thursday News: Apple spoof; Message Board is shut down; Jane Goodall’s book full of plagiarism

This is a very funny spoof of the Apple commercials along with all kinds of great uses of mobile/computer related terms like docking, sharing, wireless.  I’ll take a tall glass please.   Georgia Court Censorship Order Threatens Message Boards Everywhere – A Georgia trial court judge signed a restraining order against a message board forum(…)

Wednesday News:  RH lifted to record year by 50 Shades; Publishers and libraries still at odds; UK based tutoring company corrects graffiti

Wednesday News: RH lifted to record year by 50 Shades; Publishers and libraries still at odds; UK based tutoring company corrects graffiti

From my Inbox: It’s Forever’s 10th anniversary, and in celebration we’re giving two lucky fans a chance to win free registration to attend the RT BookLovers Convention!  ($474 value*)  Enter for a chance to win a ‘Readers’ registration to this year’s convention May 1 – 5, at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center,(…)

The case of the used digital book store

The case of the used digital book store

In January 29, 2013, Amazon was granted a  business systems patent for the sale of previously owned digital products. This patent was applied for in 2009 and Amazon has done nothing to indicate that it intends to set up a used digital bookstore either when it filed for its patent or when it received approval(…)

Wednesday News: Riveted in real life (only without the steam machines); Amazon should buy RadioShack; and children’s author harshes on libraries

Wednesday News: Riveted in real life (only without the steam machines); Amazon should buy RadioShack; and children’s author harshes on libraries

‘Knitting Behind Bars’ Helps Inmates Cope with Prison Life – Lynn Zwerling and Sheila Rovelstad started a knitting program for prisons, but not female prisons. Instead, the Knitting Behind Bars program has been introduced to the male inmates and according to this report, it is finding some success. Knitting for these inmates is introducing a(…)

Monday News: QR Codes for instant ebook access; Google purportedly looking at retail space; and a sock puppet goes to prison

Monday News: QR Codes for instant ebook access; Google purportedly looking at retail space; and a sock puppet goes to prison

Rumor: Google Planning to Open Retail Stores? – Google is supposedly going to be opening retail store to sell its tablets, phones and upcoming Google Glasses. I’d be surprised if Google didn’t opt for partnerships with Target and Best Buy for an in-store boutique. If Google does launch a physical brick and mortar retail experience,(…)

Friday News: CT gov’t proposes fair prices for libraries; Cufflinks that open handcuffs; More rumors about S&S on sale

Friday News: CT gov’t proposes fair prices for libraries; Cufflinks that open handcuffs; More rumors about S&S on sale

Connecticut Government proposes bill to require publishers to sell to libraries – Connecticut is the first state to propose a bill which would “require publishers of electronic books to offer e-books for sale to public and academic libraries at the same rates as offered to the general public. ” I’m not sure this is constitutional(…)

Tuesday News: A bookless library; a glimpse at the technological divide from a former inmate; self published author declares Amazon is after the indies

Tuesday News: A bookless library; a glimpse at the technological divide from a former inmate; self published author declares Amazon is after the indies

America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ – Library services are changing quite a bit with the advent of digital books. Bexar County, Texas, will be opening its first 100 percent digital public library system. This digital library system is designed to supplement and not replace existing libraries within the county.(…)

Tuesday News: Get an action figure of yourself; Gaming should focus on women; Penguin somewhat expands its digital library lending reach

Why the gaming industry needs to pay attention to girls – Pando Daily article cites statistics that suggest the gaming industry’s hardcore focus on the male population is to their detriment: “Women control more than 80 percent of spending. 60 percent of online gamers are women. 94 percent of girls under 18 report playing video(…)

Thursday News: Apple granted a patent for page turns; Bookstore sales fall 8%; Goodreads posts about book discovery

Thursday News: Apple granted a patent for page turns; Bookstore sales fall 8%; Goodreads posts about book discovery

September Bookstore Sales Fell 8% – I guess by now anyone who has ever been interested in reading a 50 Shades book has bought it already. In September the spring and summer’s robust sales due to the trilogy have worn off leaving bookstore sales to droop 8% behind the previous year’s already lackluster numbers. Publishers(…)

Tuesday News: Bella Andre inks print only deal with Harlequin; New digital first imprint launches; Legal Geeks teach contract law via FireFly

New digital imprint launched by ex-Harlequin Marketing Controller – Oliver Rhodes, a former Harlequin Marketing Controller (I’m not really sure what this position is), has launched Bookouture, a new digital publishing imprint which appears to be focused on women. The press release stated:  “At Bookouture we’re offering authors great digital royalties (45% of net receipts);(…)