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Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Microsoft unveils a beautiful new tablet with no ship date or price

Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Microsoft unveils a beautiful new tablet with no ship date or price

Microsoft Microsoft held a press event wherein they announced their new tablet called Microsoft Surface. It’s a beautiful, lust worthy device. The only problem? No price or ship date. Nonetheless, here are some specs. The basic design includes an integrated kickstand, two covers with integrated keyboards, and a touchscreen that recognizes and differentiates between finger(…)

Monday Midday Links: IPDF proposes ‘Light Weight DRM’; Self Pub author meltdown

Giveaways (not taking place here) The editor, Harrison Demchick, of The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns (a recommended read by Robin aka Janet) and The Understory written by Elizabeth Leiknes, wrote us to let us know about a giveaway the publishing house is running to celebrate the release of The Understory. Basically, it’s like this. As(…)

September Freebies from Samhain and Updated Digital Backlist from Harlequin

September Freebies from Samhain and Updated Digital Backlist from Harlequin

Mockingjay sells over 450,000 copies in the first week of sale and goes back to print for another 400,000 copies.   That’s a lot of copies.   You can read our spoiler filled review here. **** File this under the annals of interesting author promotion.   Alyssa Day has a pretty professional music video with an original song(…)

Bookstores Recommended Books Are Paid for by Publisher

After researching how bestseller lists are compiled, I’ve come away with a new cynicism about how the book world operates. It does seem that if the publisher is willing to pay, some venues will promote chosen books as bestsellers or, in the case of Waterstone, include a book on its “best of the year” list.(…)