Feb 10 2012
News Penguin has severed all ties with Overdrive which means that there will no longer be any titles from Penguin available for library loan in digital format. The parties are negotiating terms in which books that the libraries have already purchased can be lent but no agreement has been forthcoming. Chilling, isn’t it? Perhaps libraries [...]
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 [...]
May 18 2011
Is Amazon doing some faint quality control? Amazon, in response to customer complaints, request took down a self published title be republished because of grammatical and typographical errors. Dear Publisher, Thank you for your submission of “Title Here” (ASIN: ASIN NUMBER HERE) to the Kindle Store through Amazon KDP. During a quality assurance review of [...]
Mar 2 2011
The big news in the tech world is that Apple is debuting the iPad 2 today which will be lighter and have better resolution and thus be more attractive to those ebook reading folk. I feel super conflicted about Apple because it is acting like such an asshat about allowing content into its stores. John [...]
Feb 25 2011
Macmillan is famously known for two things among savvy digital readers. First, it led the charge for Agency pricing inserting themselves between the reader and the retailer and dictating to the retailer what prices should be charged for books. Macmillan prices its ebooks at the same level as its print books even though the reader [...]
Jul 18 2010
Dear Jane: My library just started lending ebooks! Happy dance! What do I need to get this to work? ~Tania Dear Tania: Short Answer: Library useage is a great way to dip your toe into the digital book world. You don’t have to have any special device to use the library digital lending program except [...]
Jan 18 2010
Cover Cafe nominations for 2010 are now open. If you want to nominate a cover for a book that has been published in 2010, please go to http://www.covercafe.com and click on Nominate. The new 2010 nomination form is now available. All About Romance has launched its annual readers’ poll. Author Stephen Elliott wrote an editorial about [...]
Oct 15 2009
Rosario is one of the oldest (not in age but in internet years) bloggers in romance. She was one of my first blog stops ever. She took a few years off from blogging because she was attending graduate school but now she’s back, churning out a quality review almost every day. If you haven’t put [...]
Sep 3 2009
Tomorrow is the last day to Opt Out of the Google Book Settlement Agreement. You can do this online. The biggest question you have to answer is what do you get by opting in that you don’t get by opting out, other than $60 per book? The publishers are all participating and to the extent [...]
Nov 11 2008
Cedar Rapids, Iowa suffered a terrible flood this summer and as a result the Cedar Rapids Public Library was nearly destroyed. Federal funds are being used to rebuild but there are no funds to replace the 20,000-30,000 books destroyed as a result of the water damage. If you want to donate books for the library [...]
Oct 8 2008
File this under what I would do if I won the lottery. Wired magazine has photos of the incredible 3600 square foot library of VRG* Jay Walker of WalkerDigital. He has a Sputnik, a copy of the first illustrated history book in history, an original Chaucer. Basically its the PORN OF ALL PORNS for a [...]
Sep 3 2008
Library in Phoenix has the capabilities of allowing iPhone/iTouch/iPod users to download audio books. The users have to download a software that deletes the audio books after three weeks. I’m not exactly sure how that works but it is certainly a neat idea.
Aug 18 2008
Blogger M has launched a blog plea for help. She wants to be married and not because she can’t handle a drill or open her own doors or that she is afraid of being independent. It sounds like she wants someone to share her life with her. Isn’t the what romances are about? The best [...]
Aug 5 2008
Jayne brought this link to my attention. The International Children’s Digital Library is an online library that collects, scans and makes digitally available, children’s books from around the world. The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. There are stories in [...]
Jun 9 2008
Giveaway of the Day is giving away “All My Books”, a software program designed to help organize your library. All My Books grabs information about the book from the Internet when you enter the title or ISBN number. You must download and install the program before June 9, 2008, in order to obtain the program [...]
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