Apr 6 2012
ABA CEO Update on Google eBooks and Association’s Meeting With DOJ | Bookselling This Week – This is a two for one link. First, Google has totally abandoned indie booksellers. Remember that not two years ago, Google was going to save indie booksellers bacon by allowing them to be affiliates of the Google bookstore. Now [...]
Jan 27 2012
Google has changed some of its policies regarding how it is collecting data from users. A couple of good links on the subject include the WSJ write up and the EFF write up at the USA Today. WSJ: In sum, Google is tracking every move you make and connecting it together. If you watch a [...]
Jul 14 2011
Google has partnered with iRiver to introduce a new ebook reader to the market. This will be sold at Target and online. PC World has a really good review of the device. The pro of the device is that it has the crispest screen of any eink device on the market. The cons? Poor software [...]
May 26 2011
Dear Ms. Chase: I don’t have your email address but I had to write you to comment on a note a fan made on your behalf on the Smart Bitches site. You see, your book Captives of the Night(kind of a sequel to the Lord of Scoundrels) caught the attention of Sarah Wendell. But not [...]
May 15 2011
Amazon introduced its Cloud Locker and Amazon Cloud Player and Google has introduced Google Music (beta). Both companies are offering cloud based storage for music. No big deal, right? Wrong. Music labels are concerned because Amazon and Google haven’t worked out a business relationship wherein the music labels and the artists get a piece of [...]
May 12 2011
Facebook employed a major PR and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller to launch a whisper campaign against Google. The Daily Beast broke the story and it is a compelling and almost unbelievable story. Burson-Masteller, for political junkies is the company owned by pollster Mark Penn, a chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s run for presidency. Confronted with evidence, [...]
Apr 25 2011
Romance author Beverly Barton passed away last week. Harlequin community is hosting a virtual memorial. ****** Nookcolor has undergone a pretty major update. Froyo is one of the newer Android operating systems and with the Froyo update, you get Adobe Flash (can I watch hulu on this sucker?) and access to a new Nook App [...]
Aug 18 2010
USA Today bestseller list is now counting ebook sales when compiling the list. Harlequin Books tweeted that Kristan Higgins made the USAToday list today at #102 for her ebook edition. It’s the ebook edition because of the (E) notation and the $6.99 price point (the paperbook is $7.99). There are other (E) editions on the [...]
Nov 14 2009
Google and the Plaintiffs (Authors’ Guild and representative authors and publishers) went back to the negotiating table to craft a new settlement agreement that would address the concerns of the Department of Justice and other critics. The new settlement agreement was released yesterday. For Consumers There were quite a few positive changes. To address the [...]
Oct 14 2009
So at the request of some people and the assistance of Sarah from Smart Bitches, we have constructed a google bomb for those who want to help Scott Baio get the publicity he so desperately wants (despite his claims that he is fulfilled by golf and family). A google bomb is really the only way to fulfill [...]
Sep 25 2009
A British betting firm has set the odds for the Nobel prize for literature. A.S. Byatt, author of Possession (which is essentially a romance book), is on the list at 50 to 1 odds. Washington Post tells the woeful tale of a newbie author who had almost no publisher support. Publishers are basically executing the [...]
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