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Friday Midday Links: NY Times brings forth its ebook bestseller list

Friday Midday Links: NY Times brings forth its ebook bestseller list

Update: A reader mentioned that I forgot to point out that Barnes and Noble is having a groupon where you pay $10 for a $20 gift certificate that can be used on anything. Be sure to use your Groupon before April 10, 2011. # Limit 1 per person. Valid on all items – including sale(…)

Monday Round up Links: A New Kind of Book Tour

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(…)

Monday News Roundup: Angela James Leaves Samhain & other stuff that’s not as important

First up is the news that Angela James, former executive editor of Samhain, is joining the Quartet Press folks. I think QP means business, no? In other QP news, Anne Frasier aka Teresa Weir is going to be releasing Bad Karma in ebook form through Quartet. Under the penname of Teresa Weir, Frasier wrote some(…)

New York Times Takes Another Look at EBooks

Whether it’s Oprah’s endorsement of the Kindle or the idea that technology can save publishing, more and more mainstream publications are revisiting the concept of ebook reading. The New York Times reports on the Kindle which is out of stock and the Sony which has sold 300,000 readers since 2006. Currently, sales of ebooks appear(…)

What Will NYTimes Staff Cuts Mean for Books?

There was an article on Gawker the other day that NYTimes is planning to cut 20% of its editorial staff in 2009. I’m not sure what number that translates into but the report goes on to say that most of the cuts will be in the newspaper’s “softer” sections. Is Arts & Leisure a “softer”(…)

American Writers May Suck but Not American Economists

While the Nobel jurists might think that US writers are insular and ignorant, the same can’t be said for US economists. Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton and New York Times columnist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics last night. He deserves it. He actually foresaw this current economic crisis and has been trying(…)

May 11, 2008 Bestseller comparison list

Gena Showalter is on the New York Times list for the third week. With the release of the second in the Nora Roberts’ paranormal/horror trilogy, The Hollow, her first book, Blood Brothers, reappeared on both the USA Today and NY Times list. Stephenie Meyer got the top spot for The Host, her first adult offering.(…)

May 4, 2008 Bestselling Books

Will Kresley Cole hit #1 with her June release? She’s at number 3 with her May release. Brenda Jackson’s Kimani release hit the extended list which is unusual because, in part, it is a category romance. *** Book Title Author Publisher Price Rank Peak NYT The Devil Who Tamed Her Johanna Lindsey Pocket $7.99 7(…)

USA Today v NYT Bestseller List Comparison, Week Ending March 9, 2008

We’ve put together a new list that includes references to the NYT placement. *** Book Title Author Publisher Price Rank Peak NYT The Other Boleyn Girl Phillipa Gregory Touchstone $16.00 3 3 10 Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella Dial Press $25.00 6 4 2* Naughty Neighbor Janet Evanovich Harper $7.99 26 20 4 Killer Secrets Lora(…)

NYTimes Notable 100

New York Times posted its Notable 100 books for 2007. The print version is released on Sunday. I have nothing to say since I’ve not read a one of them, not even JK Rowling’s 7th Harry Potter book. Send to Kindle

New York Times’ David Pogue Likes the Kindle

David Pogue, the technology reviewer for the New York Times, thinks that the Kindle might catch on once the design is sleeker and the price is lower. The negatives are the Design Huge previous/next buttons are so big that they are easy to hit by mistake The positives: The web browser The easy downloading of(…)

German Price Fixing for Books Keeps Bookstores in Business and Book Prices Low

The New York Times has a really interesting article about German bookselling. In Germany, there are hundreds of small bookstores that populate the business landscape. The reason for the thriving independent bookstore business is because Germany requires all bookstores to sell books at the same price, without discount. This anti-freemarket idea is netting positive results:(…)

Book Scanning for Libraries Becoming Hot News

As I was waiting for a meeting yesterday, I saw CNN reporting on the issue of libraries and scanning. Some well known research libraries are turning down Microsoft and Google’s offers to scan the contents of the libraries for free. Of course, nothing is really free, and the libraries do not want to bind themselves(…)

NY Times Select is Now Free

The NY Times Select is now available free of charge, including its archives that go back to 1987. In a letter to readers, Senior Vice President & General Manager Vivian Schiller, wrote that since the launch of the TimesSelect online, the internet has changed dramatically. “In light of this shift, we believe offering unfettered access(…)

NYTimes Changes Its Bestseller Lists

In a huge shift, NY Times is revising its bestseller lists. It will add a Trade Paperback list in addition to its stable of Non Fiction, Hardcover Fiction and Mass Market Fiction lists. It will also expand the paperback list to 20 titles (from the 15). The total number of bestsellers listed will increase to(…)