Feb 5 2010
Some of you might have noticed, on the top of the Samhain website page there is information and a link for the poll about the Sammie Awards this year. PGo vote for your favorite Samhain titles in 2009. Macmillan ratchets it up the debate by putting a full page ad in the NYTimes for Atul(…)
Jan 20 2010
Amazon’s offer of 70% applies only to those using the DTP platform so those who are vendors will not be affected. Amazon and publishers are in pricing death match that Amazon intends to win. Amazon’s first move was to discount all hardcovers to $9.99. Publishers have retaliated by withholding ebooks for its major hardcovers and(…)
Jan 18 2010
Cover Cafe nominations for 2010 are now open. If you want to nominate a cover for a book that has been published in 2010, please go to http://www.covercafe.com and click on Nominate. The new 2010 nomination form is now available. All About Romance has launched its annual readers’ poll. Author Stephen Elliott wrote an editorial about(…)
Jan 7 2010
CES opened last night with the keynote address from Microsoft. They touted new slate forms of computing. The HP slate is purportedly going to have a sub $500 price. Come to mama, I say. Matthew Bernius, at the Open Publishing Lab, is keeping track of all the publishing related CES announcements. There are a plethora(…)
Jan 7 2010
Dear Ms. Leigh: Arm Candy was one of the first Harlequin Blaze novels I ever read; in fact, it was a book I read early on in my Romance reading (what can I say: I started late). Right away, though, I knew there was something especially fun about the book, from the amusing zingers about(…)
Jan 3 2010
While the traditional advance/royalty model is the least risky for authors, its open to only a limited few within a limited framework. Publishers are buying books that they can sell to bookstore buyers and distribution partners. The benefit of digital reseller market is that the filter is not the bookstore buyer or the distribution buyer because there is no artificial limitation set physical boundaries. The digital bookshelf is infinite and endless.
Dec 28 2009
Dear Ms. Adrian: I’ve had an on again off again relationship with this series. I adored Midnight Awakening but struggled with Veil of Midnight. I liked Shades better than the last two but not as much as Midnight Awakening. One of the things that I enjoyed about Shades was that the story was more about(…)
Dec 27 2009
I hope you are enjoying the holidays. We are taking a mini vacation this week (if you haven’t noticed the light schedule this past week) which means only one review a day and no opinions. Today we’ve got a link roundup and a review. We’ll be back to our regular schedule on January 2nd along(…)
Dec 26 2009
Beware, there are spoilers for the series in the review itself so if you want to read The Mitchells of Riverview Inn without being spoiled one iota, please don’t read this review: Dear Ms. O’Keefe: Worth Fighting For brings together the loose plot threads involving Iris and Patrick, the mother and father of Gabe, Max,(…)
Dec 23 2009
Dear Ms. Robb: It’s been a while since I purchased one of the In Death books in hardcover (I prefer digital these days), so when I received my ordered paper copy of Kindred in Death in the mail I immediately noticed a couple of changes. Not only has the author photo been removed, but the(…)
Dec 22 2009
Candace Sams continues her notoriety tour by making the Guardian blog. “When Authors Attack” is the headline. Sams has since deleted her posts, but we do have screenshots for posterity sake. If you haven’t had your fill of Amazon review craziness, check out the review thread for this book that was published in all CAPLOCKS.(…)
Dec 21 2009
The UK focused publishing site, The Bookseller, had an article that suggests the delay of ebooks could only strengthen Amazon instead of weakening it. UK trade insider warned deferral was dangerous. “It is never a good response to say to a consumer: "We know you want this but we are not going to let you(…)
Dec 17 2009
MediaBistro held an ebook summit for the past few days and there were some interesting tidbits released. One of the overriding themes of the summit was that the $9.99 price point was not sustainable. One panel suggested that ads were the best possible way for publishers of content (magazines and books) to offer a low(…)
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