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Do Readers Owe Other Readers to Review?

Do Readers Owe Other Readers to Review?

  As more authors bypass traditional publishing to bring their products directly to the consumer, the greater the risk is to the reader that she wastes her money (albeit a low amount of it) and her time (possibly more precious) on a sub standard product.  The benefit of a book that is published by an(…)

Readers Need Help from Authors and Publishers to Retain Digital eBook Rights

see more Lolcats and funny pictures I am going to get back to Google Book Settlement, I promise, but this Sunday I really wanted to address the topic of ebook ownership given the Orwellian actions of Amazon. For those who are unaware, two weeks ago Amazon failed to notice that two Orwell titles (1984 and(…)

Fiction DB Is Now Free

Fiction DB, a one stop resource of authors, titles, publication dates, and even purchasing, is free. FictionDB used to cost money to see entire backlists of authors and take advantage of its 200,000+ book database. As of Tuesday, May 20, 2008, the entire database is free. This site contains a comprehensive backlist of over 50,000(…)

Lack of Software Makes iPhone Ebook Reading Primitive

Lack of Software Makes iPhone Ebook Reading Primitive

Last Friday, the innovative iPhone went on sale. Since its announcement in January, I’ve been vacillating back and forth debating whether I would purchase one or not. However, on Friday evening, we decided to hop over to the Apple Store to see what they looked like. There was no line and there was plenty of(…)

AAR Has Gone Crazy

All About Romance has been having technical difficulties with its message board system. The decision has been made to move from the rolling message board that needed no registration to a more traditional message board system. Instead of one board, however, AAR will now have 7 boards and for each board, you will have to(…)

Amazon Invests in Online Personal Book Database Software

Shelfari is a Seattle based company that launched quietly last fall to compete with Library Thing, a commonly seen widget used on reader blogs accross the net. Shelfari allows you to input your books, rate them, and show them off on your blog. You can also enter your amazon associates id and earn money off(…)