Feb 19 2010
More plagiarism from authors and journalists. NY Times has another reporter who has admitted to lifting text from other journalists, specifically from the Wall Street Journal. He apologized and said he thought it was his own material. Slate made up its own list of excuses by plagiarists. But apologies might be a thing of the [...]
Feb 13 2010
I was browsing books last night and came across Patricia Briggs’ Silver Borne (non affiliate Kindle link). Right now the Kindle price is $9.99 if you pre-order. My understanding is that Kindle pre -orders do count for bestseller lists so you can get the book now and still help out a favorite author. Amazon is [...]
Feb 11 2010
Is it Thursday already? I feel like I haven’t had any traction this week. For those publishers who believe Apple is their savior, they may want to take a look at this news report. Apple is driving down the prices of iTunes TV episodes to $1 per show. I think this is great and I [...]
Feb 9 2010
File this under “where have I been” but apparently Paramount is engaged in some egregious whitewashing in the Airbender movie. Aspiring author, Ellen Oh, writes about how whitewashing is racist. There is a site devoted to the Airbender casting fiasco (all the heroes are white and the bad guy and secondary characters are ethnic characters). [...]
Jan 30 2010
You can read the full text for free here but essentially it sounds like this dispute is not one that will end happily for readers. Macmillan wanted to sell the books via an agency model wherein the publisher sets the price and the retailer gets a cut. In an open letter to Authors, Illustrators, and [...]
Jan 28 2010
The message that I heard from others yesterday is that they were underwhelmed by the iPad. Significantly, it lacks the ability to run applications simultaneously, has no camera, lacks a USB port or external memory slot. Further, there is no innovative input, only a large screen keyboard. I’m not certain how easy it would be [...]
Jan 26 2010
Amazon is publishing four previously unpublished manuscripts through Amazon Encore. We anticipated this move back when Amazon purchased CreateSpace. I anticipate that these books will be distributed, in print, through third party wholesalers and receive prime advertising at Amazon. Avon is holding a big contest for readers. Suggest a novella idea and if yours is [...]
Jan 20 2010
Amazon’s offer of 70% applies only to those using the DTP platform so those who are vendors will not be affected. Amazon and publishers are in pricing death match that Amazon intends to win. Amazon’s first move was to discount all hardcovers to $9.99. Publishers have retaliated by withholding ebooks for its major hardcovers and [...]
Dec 29 2009
Obviously we have a new look and feel to Dear Author. The design work was completed by Maili and it is based off a premium theme from WooThemes. Just the Web did some additional coding work. We’ve developed a couple of informational pages: For Readers/For Authors. Those are both in the development stage. One of [...]
Dec 27 2009
I hope you are enjoying the holidays. We are taking a mini vacation this week (if you haven’t noticed the light schedule this past week) which means only one review a day and no opinions. Today we’ve got a link roundup and a review. We’ll be back to our regular schedule on January 2nd along [...]
Dec 10 2009
Over at Smart Bitches I noticed that there is an ebook sale at eHarlequin today. Using the code CUTINHALF, you will receive 50% off any ebook in the eHarlequin library. I think that they have over 2,000 ebooks for sale. I don’t have a good list for you to buy but I can provide some [...]
Dec 7 2009
Heather is having a huge science fiction romance book giveaway. 12 bloggers teamed up with 17 authors to give away over 30 books. It’s called the SFR Holiday Blitz and visitors have until Friday midnight to enter. ***** News Corp (Rupert Murdoch and the owner of Harper Collins) is partnering with Time Inc, Conde Nast, [...]
Dec 6 2009
Sony sent me the Sony Reader Pocket and Touch Editions for review. I’ve had the devices for little over three weeks and they will be winging their way to another reviewer tomorrow. You can read my review of the Pocket Edition here. I have the Sony Reader PRS 700 which was a touchscreen and integrated [...]
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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