Apr 24 2012
Jim C. Hines – Posing Like a Man – Jim Hines recreates a series of mantitty covers and comes to some interesting conclusions about the objectification of men on covers (it’s almost always positive). Karen Knows Best – “It hasn’t passed my attention that within romance, enhanced breasts are usually hung on the ‘bitchy(…)
Apr 22 2012
Purpose of the Antitrust Law This article is to lay out, in simplest terms, antitrust law as it pertains to the publishing price fixing lawsuit. It is not designed to address the shortcomings of the law or the need for reform but the status of the law. Additionally, my knowledge of the antitrust law is(…)
Apr 19 2012
Publishing Industry Is Angry That Pulitzers Snubbed Fiction – NYTimes.com – Traditional publishing is really unhappy that there was no Pulitzer Prize award for fiction. The primary reason is that the prize gives the fiction market a nice financial bump but I don’t think that a Pulitizer should be awarded either to give a boost(…)
Apr 16 2012
Experts Consider How Apple E-Book Suit Will Impact Business, Regulation – I’m fairly irritated with the coverage of the DOJ lawsuit over prices. Let me clarify a few things. First, there is no law against pursuing or acquiring a monopoly. Second, there is no prohibition against a manufacturer or a publisher from setting prices and(…)
Apr 11 2012
CISPA is SOPA 2.0: petition to stop it – Boing Boing – CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is considered by some to be SOPA 2.0 although Facebook and Microsoft both support the new CISPA act. Says the EFF, though: “The broad language around what constitutes a cybersecurity threat(…)
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(…)
Apr 5 2012
No deals today. What, you didn’t gorge yourself yesterday? Get to it! Amazon Media Room: Press Releases – “Early sales data indicates that inclusion in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library not only generates additional revenue from loans for authors, but actually increases customer purchases of authors’ work as well. In the case of Suzanne(…)
Mar 12 2012
News Visa responds to erotica authors and say that it isn’t imposing any kinds of restrictions on fiction: Relevant to this situation, the sale of a limited category of extreme imagery depicting rape, bestiality and child pornography is or is very likely to be unlawful in many places and would be prohibited on the Visa(…)
Dec 28 2011
News HarperCollins has sued Open Road Media for the publication of “Julie of the Wolves”. According to the petition, HarperCollins alleges that Open Road has willfully infringed on HC’s contract with Jean Craighead George which included the provision HC’s “exclusive right to publish George’s children’s novel Julie of the Wolves ‘in book form,’ including(…)
Dec 9 2011
Anita Clenney has filed her answer (PDF) to the Sourcebooks complaint. In it, she asserts four points: 1) Inclusion of 8 pages of advertisements without permission and/or payment constitutes a material breach. Clenney argues that the industry standard is a) defined by the actions of two or more of the big 6 and that the industry(…)
Nov 10 2011
In the UK, a self published author is suing a reviewer for panning his book. Chris McGrath, an online entrepreneur from Milton Keynes, who wrote and self-published a little-known book entitled The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, has launched libel proceedings against Vaughan Jones, 28. He claims Mr Jones(…)
Aug 25 2011
A federal judge in Austin has ruled that the Texas anti littering slogan does not apply to Christie Craig’s Don’t Mess With Texas. The decision (which I have not read) reportedly cites First Amendment issues and costs in denying the preliminary injunction request. Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994, 999 (2nd Cir. 1989) set forth(…)
Aug 23 2011
Booklamp.org is up and running. Booklamp professes to be a Pandora for books. It does not have much content for romances. It looks to be publisher specific. Random House and Simon & Schuster have books and authors present but Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette do not. Harlequin also seems absent. Searching Nora Roberts pulls up(…)
Aug 17 2011
HarperCollins total year-end results are unclear given that parent company news Corp. did not break out the division in the year-end report. However, the children’s division improved and e-book sales accounted for approximately 12% of all business in the US last year. Source: PW **** Author Dorothea Benton Frank gave an interview to the Columbus(…)
Aug 9 2011
PubIt! asked Dear Author to participate in their review day event on Facebook. PubIt! posted blog summaries on its wall and invited self published authors to make short pitches. Our blog summary was that we wanted unusual historicals and erotic romances and were looking to review books between 50,000 and 80,000 words. Of course, there(…)
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