Feb 7 2009
Dear Mr. Valentine and Mr. MacLeod: It’s all about expectations, isn’t it? This book is being marketed, or at least it’s labeled by its publisher, eXcessica, as a BDSM novel. And the excerpt is some pretty darn hot pre-BDSM-play negotiations which promises more hotness of the BDSM variety when you get the rest of the(…)
Feb 2 2009
Ars Technica has a fabulous (but lengthy) post about ebooks and the evolving publisher response (mostly not helpful). Ars is waiting for Apple to take up the mantle of ebooks like it did with music. I think it won’t. Apple’s focused on gaming and why not? Video game sales were about the only entertainment item(…)
Jan 12 2009
The big news of the day is Dorchester is going digital. According to the press release, by summer Dorchester will do simultaneous releases of its book in print and digital format for all of its new titles, but expect to see titles as early as April in multiple DRM formats. You can read more about(…)
Jan 12 2009
Kassia Krozser, the brilliant romance reader, aspiring writer, and journalist, is giving a presentation at the Tools of Change conference in New York in February. She and a few other female ebook reading champs (Malle Vallik of Harlequin Digital, Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and Angela James of Samhain Publishing) are going to(…)
Jan 11 2009
There were no updates to the existing slate of ebook Readers on the market, but there were advances and new technology that was shown off at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. A company called “Shortcovers” will be releasing an iPhone application designed to deliver short works to iPhone readers. Plastic Logic is working on its(…)
Jan 8 2009
THIRD UPDATE: I’m just going to rewrite the post for tomorrow. Fictionwise is working assiduously (my word) to get publisher approval and it sounds like it is all going well. Also, I expressed my despair that so few new titles were available this week and this too is going to be addressed and there should(…)
Jan 5 2009
SmartMoney.com places the eBook Reader as one of the top 5 “New Things to Buy” in 2009. Business Week reviews books on the iPhone and suggests that it is serious competition to the Kindle. We knew that a while back though, didn’t we? Speaking of reading on the iPhone, it’s charge will only last through(…)
Dec 8 2008
Random House is partnering with Stanza to offer free backlist titles from prominent Random House authors such as Charlie Huston, Simon Rich, and Julie Garwood. Right now there are 9 titles that are available in full length and for free via your Stanza application. Very very cool. Send to Kindle
Dec 5 2008
I am interested in compiling statistics about the types of ebook formats being purchased. I understand that an author’s royalty statements which include ebook sales are broken down by format (via a different ISBN). If you want to share, even anonymously, that would be awesome. I’ve set up a new gmail account: ebookroyalty@gmail.com. What I(…)
Dec 2 2008
Dear Mr. Priest, Ever since I read somewhere that rock stars were supposedly unacceptable in Romancelandia, I’ve been fascinated by the concept and read them whenever one pops up (nothing like telling me something’s “not done” to make me want to do it!). In The Curtis Reincarnation, Tyler Curtis is the young (“not yet one-and-twenty”(…)
Nov 30 2008
Last week we talked about the dedicated ebook readers from the high end Sony Reader PRS700 to the Kindle. One thing that commenters addressed was the conversion issues. I.e., how difficult is it to convert content to be read on the Kindle, Sony, et al. I think that there should be a whole post on(…)
Nov 9 2008
I am still digesting and working on a post regarding the Google BookSearch Settlement. If you have thoughts on it, feel free to email me (jane at dearauthor.com). I’m fairly concerned about the future impacts and my initial feelings are ones of concern. Today, though, I thought I would give some bullet point items about(…)
Oct 13 2008
Simon & Schuster is partnering with Macmillan Publishing Solutions to deliver over 500 Simon & Schuster books to any “web-enabled mobile phone.” Titles will include “The Secret”, Star Trek books, Nancy Drew mysteries and Ernest Hemingway stories. The plan is for all S&S ebooks to be available through the service. My suggestion? Get your YA(…)
Oct 12 2008
Note: I mentioned below that several ebook vendors were having big sales this week including BooksonBoard. I read the BoB promotion to require a minimum of $100 to get the 50% rebate. This is not accurate. There is a 50% rebate/reward for each book purchased through today regardless of what you spend. Arstechnica, one of(…)
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