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The Paypal Fiction Crackdown Roundup

The Paypal Fiction Crackdown Roundup

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(…)

Tuesday News: New Nook Pricing, Kindle Rumors, Reader Data, and Paypal Clarification

Tuesday News: New Nook Pricing, Kindle Rumors, Reader Data, and Paypal Clarification

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(…)

Wednesday Midday Links:  What do readers want from HP/Riva/Modern

Wednesday Midday Links: What do readers want from HP/Riva/Modern

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(…)

REVIEW: Blue Gold by Lindsay Townsend

REVIEW: Blue Gold by Lindsay Townsend

Dear Ms. Townsend, Beyond an Egyptian setting, I wasn’t sure what to expect with “Blue Gold” as I didn’t read the description until after I’d finished the story. And what a story. It’s a sprawling 1970s miniseries crossed with a soap opera crossed with the epic sword and sandal movies made only in the 1950s.(…)

REVIEW: The Claiming by Trinity Blacio

Jane: Maili, I understand you just finished reading (or is that too generous of a word) the words compiled into one PDF known as The Claiming by Trinity Blacio published by Siren Publishing-Bookstrand, Inc. The Claiming is ostensibly about a young woman whose family was killed in a bomb explosion on the family boat 10(…)