Jan 21 2013
Google’s Media Barons – John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, has published a strange op ed piece arguing that Google is engaged in “for profit theft” by providing “logistical support for pirating and repackaging everything that we writers, editors, and publishers hold dear.” I’m not exactly sure what MacArthur is accusing Google of(…)
Jan 3 2013
Indie Bookstores Have Big Holiday Sales – I’m not sure whether a few stores is an industry marker, but PW reports that indie bookstores in several states have enjoyed robust holiday sales. Barnes & Noble holiday sales were not as promising but the full results won’t be revealed until today. PublishersWeekly ESPN shows husband kissing(…)
Apr 24 2012
Dear Ms. Rogers, I saw Kamikaze listed as a free book and an introduction to your new self-published series, Last Call. The cover seemed eye-catching enough and the blurb promised smoking hot action. Sounds good to me. This read did exactly what it promised – it was short and physical. Unfortunately I struggled to connect(…)
May 5 2011
There is a lot of news today. First up Barnes and Noble is set to announce a new ebook reader during BEA which is in a couple of weeks. Amazon is releasing a new ebook reader this fall. The BN Nook 2, as Mike Cane believes it will be called, is likely to have a(…)
Dec 16 2010
I wanted to post this early in the morning. Our reviews will follow later on today. Today is Jane Austen’s birthday and to celebrate Sourcebooks is giving away digital copies of the following books (look for them at your favorite etailer): Eliza's Daughter, by Joan Aiken (Sense and Sensibility continuation) The Darcy's & the Bingley's,(…)
Jul 13 2010
Borders opens its ebook store to the public. It sells epubbed books using the standard epub encryption. Borders ebooks can be read on all devices that read epub. It is fulfilled by Kobo and thus has some backlist title problems which will hopefully be resolved over time. I’m not sure that Borders can gain 17%(…)
Jun 14 2010
I can’t recall if I posted this but the winner of the copy of Petals from the Sky from last week's Intro Interview with Mingmei Yip is Ms. Bookjunkie. Send your post info to Alyson at daintrointerview AT gmail DOT com, and she'll get your book out to you. Congratulations! **** Donna Hayes, Harlequin's Publisher and CEO is(…)
Jun 13 2010
Dear Jane: I’m see all these promotions for free ebooks (or cheap ebooks) but I don’t own an ebook reader and I don’t want to buy one just yet (I’m waiting for that perfect device). But I still want to read some of these books for free. Is there anyway I can do that? ~Lynn(…)
Jun 6 2010
I received an email from reader Lynn about MyPadMedia selling access to free books. MyPadMedia was using Feedbooks feed improperly but the email prompted an issue I have wanted to talk about for a bit but never gotten around to it and that is the sale of public domain books through every internet retailer out(…)
Apr 21 2010
This New Yorker article is one of the best articles I’ve read about the Apple pricing model, Apple, Amazon, and publishers. Pieces of interest include that Apple has agreed to this type of pricing model for only one year and only publishers believe that higher digital prices can be sustained. No matter where consumers buy(…)
Mar 5 2010
I had a product demonstration of GetGlue today with Ami Grecko. I had learned of GetGlue before but I really didn’t understand how it worked. After all, do I really need another social networking service? At the end of the thirty minutes, I was convinced that this wasn’t just another social networking service and I(…)
Feb 17 2010
Dear Ms. Black. I reviewed a short story of yours in my review of Sindusty I from Dreamspinner Press. It was one of my two favorites of the anthology. I had this to say about it: “I adored this sweet little story. Patrick is a video game designer, working the final kinks out of a(…)
Jan 25 2010
Motoko Rich has a piece on the advisability of free giveaways on Kindle. Random House, Harlequin, and smaller publishers are giving away copies of books at Amazon. Other publishers like Penguin and Hachette believe that giving away books devalues the book itself. Similarly, a spokesman for Penguin Group USA said: "Penguin has not and does(…)
Jan 20 2010
Last winter we linked to a free fiction short from author Caroline Linden and I was contacted by Pocket to see if we would host a free fiction download for author Jennifer Estep. Of course we would. Readers like free fiction and I think it’s a great opportunity to be introduced to the writing voice(…)
Dec 3 2009
We begin with the monthly Orbit/Grand Central specials: Orcs by Stan Nicholls $1.00 Pitch Black by Susan Crandall $1.99 (I recommend getting these. Crandall is a good RS author and at $1.99 these two books are a total bargain). Seeing Red by Susan Crandall $1.99 Bad News by Donald E. Westlake $1.99 Dark Harbor by(…)
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