Feb 4 2010
I’m privileged to be able to give a presentation at this month’s Tools of Change conference along with Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches Trashy Books and Editor Angela James from Carina Press. Our presentation is what readers want and it is based on conversations we’ve had with ebook readers for over four years on our(…)
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Amazon is publishing four previously unpublished manuscripts through Amazon Encore.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 24 2010
Ned is thinking of getting a new vehicle and at dinner the other night, one of our friends talked about the new Ford Fusion dashboards. Apparently the new Ford Fusion dashboard is highly configurable, allowing four different types of displays. Users are pushing for the dashboards to be opensource so that people can customize the(…)
Jan 22 2010
Bloomsbury decided to change the cover of Magic Under Glass after intense criticism of the cover arose around the web. “Bloomsbury is ceasing to supply copies of the US edition of Magic Under Glass. The jacket design has caused offense and we apologize for our mistake. Copies of the book with a new jacket design(…)
Jan 19 2010
In Bowker’s 2008 PubTrack Consumer Survey, the activity in which largest amount of time that READERS spent doing any one thing was browsing online. Reading books came in a distant fourth, right behind reading newspapers and magazines and far behind TV viewing. The good news is that in 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts(…)
Nov 17 2009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures I was reading Rosario’s blog the other day and she was blogging about how much she enjoyed Linnea Sinclair’s Down Home Zombie Blues. As I was reading Rosario’s review, I was thisclose to buying the book but the fact is that Linnea Sinclair’s books just don’t work for me.(…)
Oct 28 2009
There was a person who mentioned that the idea of a book or a phone or a laptop in the bathroom is pretty disgusting to them. I confess, in a manner of TMI perhaps, that I read in the bathroom. Do you? [poll id="206"] Send to Kindle
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Aug 17 2009
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(…)
Aug 14 2009
Jul 27 2009
JOINT REVIEW: Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh (and Giveaway)
Mockingjay 13 District Blog Tour: District 5, Our Giveaway
Something is very wrong with us, and it’s not bad reviews
Berkley Fall Giveaway
Author DeborahAnne MacGillivray Harasses Amazon Reader
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