Jul 11 2012
Underwater map of fiber cabling – Telegeography.com Thought this was very cool. The screenshot captures just a tiny portion of the entire world’s fiber cabling. PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns | TorrentFreak – “In recent weeks, PayPal has cut off many of the world’s largest filehosting sites from its service including MediaFire,(…)
Mar 14 2012
News Yesterday, Paypal announced that it would be reversing its stance on bans on fiction. According to the Chicago Tribune, Paypal will look at books on an individual basis: PayPal’s new policy will focus only on e-books that contain potentially illegal images, not e-books that are limited to just text, spokesman Anuj Nayar said on(…)
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(…)
Feb 28 2012
News I have a lot of news today so I will try to be short. Pithy. Harry Potter digital books will be sourced through Overdrive and available for lending for five years. At that time, the libraries will need to repurchase the digital copies. Source: Library Journal Google decided to kick out affiliates that weren’t(…)
Feb 26 2012
Background Back in 2007, Jayne and I reviewed ebookstores. There seemed to be new ones that were announced everyday. When All Romance eBooks launched in 2007, it lacked the Paypal option. It would later add Paypal in October of 2007. Commenters informed us that Paypal had content restrictions. One reason that Loose Id does not(…)
Feb 24 2012
Updated x1: Ms. Manning has commented and provided an apology: I’ve gone back and forth on how to address this for several hours. A personal blog post would not be seen by enough people. Nor would a response to Ms. Fielding’s blog. When Dear Author posted this blog, I felt it was the answer I’d(…)
Feb 23 2012
News RT is offering a chance for one reader to have her (or his) name in Kristen Callihans’ next book. And now, Kristen Callihan is offering readers a way to become part of her new series. One lucky reader’s name will be used for a character in the upcoming series second, Moonglow. More on the(…)
Feb 22 2012
All Romance eBooks emailed me to ask if I had any questions regarding their new policy regarding ebook categorization. Of course I did and they responded. The entirety is posted below with permission: 1. You are creating a new area for certain types of books. How will readers access those books? We’re currently in the(…)
Feb 21 2012
Sarah Wendell attended Tools of Change and has two round up post. Post 1 Post 2. This post had interesting information about Goodreads. One thing that caught my eye was this: “Angela James asked during the Q&A what the minimum threshold of ratings a book needed to have in order to be added to the(…)
Feb 20 2012
News An author by the name of Mainak Dhar has several self published books for sale and many of his books have an average of 4 stars with over 200+ reviews. The number of high ranking reviews is propelling sales. Alice in Deadland, one title, had been lingering on the #1 Kindle sci fi spot for(…)
Apr 3 2008
I know this isn’t book related but I absolutely love paypal. I have been a Paypal user since 2000 and use it whenever I can. This morning I read that Jet Blue will allow its passengers to pay with their Paypal accounts. I hope other major vendors (like bookstores) will allow this soon. Send to(…)
Oct 29 2007
All Romance eBooks (ARe) is now accepting paypal payments for those readers who do not have credit cards or prefer not to use credit cards. I love Paypal and am thrilled that more businesses are moving toward accepting this form of payment. Send to Kindle
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