Jun 15 2008
During Book Expo America, ebooks were the hot topic. A report from the New York Times signaled that there is some within the industry who are fearful of the rise of ebooks in general and the increase of Amazon’s market power in particular. There seems to be a lot of resistance to ebooks in the [...]
Jun 3 2008
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, campaigned hard on Friday on behalf of the Amazon e-reading device. Booksellers are becoming increasingly nervous about the rise of ebooks. According to the New York Times article, Amazon is selling many of its Kindle books below what it costs to buy the book from the publisher. Amazon, for example, [...]
Jun 1 2008
I know I promised to do a piece on the history of Net Neutrality legislation and what is the current state of the governmental proposals. I still intend to do that within the next couple of weeks. Today, though, is June 1, and next Tuesday, June 9, Steve Jobs will announce the release of the [...]
May 15 2008
A few readers had emailed me their frustrations with the Harlequin One Click Bundles. When you buy these items, you get one giant file containing all the books instead of individual files for each book. I asked Harlequin what the reasoning behind this is/was and they said it was an issue of technology. They would [...]
Apr 27 2008
Last month, I read about a new e book program for kids called Kidthing.com. Kidthing is based on Adobe flash and is one part audio book and one part video. It really harnesses the ability of a computer to translate into a learning tool for young children. During its beta period, users could access Horton [...]
Apr 3 2008
I forgot to blog about this on April 1 (I was having some technical difficulties that day). Fictionwise is having a 50% off storewide sale on all its ebooks extended to 10 Am Eastern Time on Friday, April 4. The way that this works is that you buy the book with paypal or a credit [...]
Mar 21 2008
Business Week reports that ebook sales are up 59% in 2007 as compared to sales in 2006. I suspect some of this is due to the increasing availability of mainstream books in “e” form. I believe that all major publishers put out their romance books in ebook form except Dorchester (although I have heard some [...]
Mar 14 2008
Penguin Group (publisher of authors like Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Meljean Brooks, Nalini Singh and the like) are releasing a number of classics in E form. The ebooks are called Penguin Enhanced e-Book Classics and will contain a number of features to induce a reader to buy the ecopy. For [...]
Feb 24 2008
In the 1980s, Sony and Matsushita engaged in a battle over VHS v. Betamax. Sony lost that battle but has emerged the victor in home entertainment fight club battle 2.0. Last week, Toshiba announced it would “no longer develop, make or market high-definition HD DVD players and recorders.” In the early 2000s, the movie industry [...]
Feb 5 2008
After refocusing its efforts on romance, Samhain re-opens its doors. It looks like sexy is the focus with five out of the seven releases this week are Red Hots.
Jan 27 2008
Last week, we posted a super positive guest review for Bettie Sharpe’s Like a Thief in the Night, a novella from Samhain. Sharpe had the benefit of a solid audience from the serial that ran on Dionne Galace’s blog. I watched the My Bookstore and More top ten ratings and never once saw Like a [...]
Jan 16 2008
Eos, a division of Harper Collins, is giving away one free book in e format every two months for 2008 in celebration for their 10th Anniversary (plus they get your email address). The first book is Robin Hobb’s, Shaman’s Crossing. Robin Hobb is a Washington writer, well known for the Farseer, Liveship Traders, and Tawny [...]
Dec 27 2007
Samhain announced a week or so ago that it was closed for submissions. When it re-opens, it will be accepting only romance oriented submissions. I would dearly love to see more urban fantasy romance. The full text of the new announcement follows: *** When we re-open for submissions, we will be refocusing the company's efforts. [...]
Dec 25 2007
Harlequin is giving away one free ebook per day until January 1, 2007. These are full length ebooks from the most popular lines such as Harlequin Presents and Harlequin Blaze. I will confess to having gorged on Harlequin Presents this holiday season. My two favorite HP authors are currently Sara Craven and Helen Brooks (neither [...]
Dec 12 2007
GalleyCat wrote today that Daily Lit is partnering with Harlequin to deliver bit-sized chunks of books to your computer or mobile device. Daily Lit specializes in serializing the classics which might not seem a good fit on the surface, but romance readers are voracious readers and having a bit of Gift of the Magi (solidly [...]
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