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,(…)
Feb 19 2009
Borders has filed a motion to dismiss in the lawsuit filed by Ellora’s Cave. The motion to dismiss mentions, among other things, that the number of returns EC incurred was due to EC’s own failure to provide full shipments. Instead, EC engaged in a practice of short shipments. From the Motion to Dismiss: It is(…)
Oct 13 2008
Dear Ms. Gray: I can’t recall why I wanted to read a book of yours. Was it a comment you made? Somewhere? It’s hard to say. I mentioned one night on Twitter that I was going to buy one of your books (Damnation) but my friend, Nicole of BlogHappy, twittered back that I should try(…)
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(…)
Oct 7 2008
I read on Emily Veinglory’s blog today that there was a rumor that Ellora’s Cave is offering to serve as a distributor/etailer for other ePublishers. According to Patty Marks, CEO of Ellora’s Cave: This is a potential business venture being considered by Jasmine- Jade Enterprises. When there are details to announce, we’ll do so. The(…)
May 6 2008
Romantic Times convention took place a couple of weeks ago. Since the convention, a few people spoke up about their experiences which included a negative reaction to the antics of the Ellora’s Cavemen. SB Sarah said that the Cavemen acted like cavemen and were overly grabby. JC Wilder reported a poorly thought up 9/11 tribute(…)
Apr 7 2008
Hat tip to SB Sarah who has the scoop. According to the petition, Christina Brashears is a 5% shareholder of Ellora’s Cave beginning in July of 2003. September In 2005, Brashears was terminated from her position as Director, Chief Operating Office and Publisher. Her main claims are as follows: She is entitled to a buyout(…)
Jun 6 2007
Coming on the heels of the Samhain announcement on Monday of the joint venture with Kensington that will see a Samhain imprint as part of the Kensington line, is the news that Ellora’s Cave will be upping the number of books to be published and distributed through Simon & Schuster. Pocket Books began releasing Ellora’s(…)
May 19 2007
Jaid Black, owner of Ellora’s Cave, mentioned in her previous interview that she thought the NY move into e-publishing would have difficulties because authors want to see themselves in print. In the Triskelion drama of the past week, one thing was clear and that was Triskelion appeared to over extend itself in attempting to get(…)
May 19 2007
Dear Ms Munro, For a book as short as this is, with three main characters, lots secondary characters and several long sex scenes, I should have gotten the feeling that every word was being used for a purpose, that every scene counted, that maximum use was made of the entire story. Instead, what I felt(…)
May 17 2007
In an amicable separation, pro EC author, Sarah McCarty, told Sybil at The Good, The Bad and The Ugly that she will no longer writing for EC. While McCarty states that it was a very civil parting of the ways and the door remains open, I feel sad for the fans who won’t be getting(…)
May 13 2007
During the past few weeks, Ellora's Cave has been put under the microscope by readers and anonymous commenters. Karen S of It's My Blog and I'll Say What I Want, pondered about the quality decline at Ellora's Cave after a reading of Ben's Wildflower by Carol Lynne. I was less than impressed with the book(…)
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