Jul 13 2011
Updated: Amazon just announced that AT&T is sponsoring its Kindle with 3G (and I don’t know for how long) so that the price of the Kindle 3G with special offers is now $139. Even without a touch screen, I think this is the best ereader on the market. The 3G makes it so easy [...]
Apr 24 2011
As of April 8, 2011, the three year lawsuit between Ellora’s Cave and Chris Brashear has come to an end. On April 7, 2008, Chrissy Brashear filed suit against Ellora’s Cave alleging that she was entitled to a distribution of profits from 2005 until the date at which defendants bought out her 5% shares. EC’s [...]
Mar 9 2011
This will be my third year of attending RT Convention. RT has, in my opinion, really made an effort to bring interesting content to readers. The conference takes place in LA from April 6 through the 10. All of the “reader” events are marked by “READER” at the front: READER: Western Reader Roundup Date: [...]
Feb 15 2011
Dear Ms. d’Abo. I became interested in your writing after seeing that Jane had accepted one of your stories for her Agony/Ecstasy anthology. So I hied me on over to Ellora’s Cave and bought these two stories. I’m glad I did and I look forward to your anthology story even more now. Commanding Acquisitions Simon’s [...]
Jan 3 2011
Lori James, co owner of All Romance eBooks and its sister site, Omni Lit, share a 2010 trend analysis that she said I could share with all of you. I think that there are some really interesting data points. (Here’s an interview Kassia Kroszer did with Lori James and one between Sarah Wendell of Smart [...]
Nov 23 2010
Yesterday, I received an email from HarperCollins that it was shuttering its ebookstore (used to be called PerfectBound) as of November 19 and that customers would only have until December 19, 2010 to redownload their purchases. After the December 19, 2010, date, titles purchased through the HC eBook Store would not be accessible. (I thought [...]
Nov 17 2010
Dear Ms. Dryden: You probably know that I started reading and buying your books after you submitted a story to me for the upcoming anthology I am editing for Berkley. I’ve made my way through your backlist and hope to write reviews for each one but I started with this one because of recent comments [...]
Oct 27 2010
Barnes and Noble invited press to view its newest edition to the Nook family. The NOOKcolor is a tablet like reader that runs on the Android operating platform. The tablet has an IPS screen which is similar to the iPad and is capacitive, again like the iPad and iTouch/iPhone. Where it differs is internally. BN [...]
Aug 4 2010
The big news yesterday (and there does seem to be big news constantly in publishing these days) is that Barnes and Noble is up for sale. This may mean nothing more than Len Riggio is tired of answering to shareholders. Riggio has said that he is interested in putting together a private equity bid for [...]
Jun 22 2010
Note: This is one of my longer reviews, but I promise that I only really laid out in detail what happens in the first chapter. It’s just a book that I enjoy thinking and talking about. Dear Ms. Calhoun: Thank you for sending me this book as it is not one that I would’ve picked [...]
Mar 29 2010
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the official release of the April books. Most Avon and Random House books are released on the last Tuesday of every month. Kensington, Grand Central, and Harlequin have an official release date of the first of every month with Berkley/Jove/Signet/NAL books being released on the first Tuesday of every month. [...]
Mar 5 2010
Christine Brashears, owner of Samhain Publishing, brought suit against Ellora’s Cave on April 2008. The details of the original suit I blogged about here. Ellora’s Cave filed a countersuit, alleging Brashear engaged in misappropriation of trade secrets, defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference with existing and prospective contracts, among other allegations. Discovery (the exchange of [...]
Nov 15 2009
Ellora’s Cave is finally selling its ebooks outside of its own portal, jasminejade.com. Strangely, though, Ellora’s Cave is setting its list prices at third party vendors at twice the rate of the ebook price at jasminejade.com. For example, Jade Black’s After the Storm sells for $7.99 in unencrypted PDF, HTML, MS Reader, Mobipocket, and Rocketbook [...]
Sep 6 2009
Dear Ms. Ryan-Davis: This is a book in which I loved the voice but didn’t love the execution of the story which means I’ll be on the look out for future books despite this one not working out for me. John Raincrow has been dispatched by C.C. Carver’s family to bring her home which dovetails [...]
Sep 2 2009
Dear Ms. Rossetti: This book recently won a Passionate Plume Award from Passionate Ink, the erotic SIG for RWA. I’ve long been intrigued by the blurb on EC, so thought I’d check it out. I’m very glad I did. It’s part of a series, but completely stands alone-’I haven’t read the rest of the series, [...]
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