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Oh Noes! Borders Offers Romance Book for Free; Takes Advantage of Emotionally Weak Women

By Jane • Feb 8th, 2008 • Category: Bookstore, Misc

Borders is running a Buy 4 Get 1 Free special for romances. When I first saw this discount notice in my inbox (which works out to about $1.25 off per book), I thought, “Sweet.” But apparently, I should have thought “those rat bastards.”
According to blogger at TensionBreaker:
Offering consumers 5 romance novels for the [...]



Beautiful Book Buying

By Jayne • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: Bookstore, Misc

We all love to buy books, right? And as much as I luv me some ebooks, I still enjoy browsing in a bookstore. Something about the feel and heft of a book in my hands, the surprise discovery, the remembered TBB title makes a trip to my local brick and mortar store a treat. Sean [...]



New Romance Marketing Expert at Borders

By Jane • Dec 19th, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Misc

moar funny pictures
I have to just give a plug for my dear friend, Tina Trevaskis, who is now the new Romance/Horror & Westerns Marketing Specialist at Borders Group Inc. Tina is a huge lover of romance. I met Tina over 7 years ago (I think) due to our mutual love of romance. [...]



Spotlight on Drollerie Press

By Jane • Sep 23rd, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Ebooks, Interviews

Drollerie Press came to my attention when two authors, Joely Sue Burkhart and Imogen Howson, emailed DearAuthor and wondered if we wouldn’t be interested in reading their books. The covers were gorgeous and I assumed that this was some small print independent publishing house. Upon further investigation, I learned that Drollerie Press is [...]



Price Comparison: Which E book Retailer Has the Best Prices

By Jane • Aug 5th, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Ebooks, Letters of Opinion, Misc

I’ve purchased most of my books at Fictionwise. I’ve long thought that its Buywise club was a smart purchasing decision. After all, I buy alot of ebooks and it just seemed to make sense. I sat down with my laptop, an Excel spreadsheet, and Ned and learned that I really haven’t been [...]



Top 10 Peeves from Booksellers and Readers about Author Websites

By Guest Reviewer • May 11th, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Letters of Opinion, Misc

This is a special post by Bookseller Jolie after talking with some other booksellers and readers.
Readers want to buy your books; booksellers want to sell your books. Even though this article is all about the peeves, it’s really about how to help authors get connected to readers. The only way to [...]



REVIEW: Ebookstore Review: All Romance Ebooks

By Jane • Apr 22nd, 2007 • Category: B+ Reviews, Bookstore, Ebooks, Reviews

Angie W, Executive Editor of Samhain Publishing, brought a new ebookstore to our attention last week: All Romance Ebooks. All Romance Ebooks or “ARe” opened its doors on November 1, 2006, and while it took a while to get my attention I appreciate it didn’t go around and spam comment on all of [...]



REVIEW: Ebook Weekly : Review of Cobblestone Press

By Jayne • Apr 15th, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Ebooks, Reviews

Edited April 17th
This week we're reviewing Cobblestone Press. They opened their cyber doors in 2006.
“Cobblestone Press is an electronic, full service publisher of mainstream, sensual, and erotic romance, releasing two to three digital books a week in a variety of downloadable formats. It is our mission to provide quality romance books in electronic formats and [...]



REVIEW: E-Book Weekly: Review of Freya’s Bower Site and Bookstore

By Jane • Mar 18th, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Reviews

This week we're reviewing Freya’s Bower. Freya’s Bower is a subsidy of Wild Child Publishing. FB opened it’s electronic doors in spring of 2006. While the catalog is small, it offers books in fifteen different categories. It is a non-subsidy publishing house and pays 40% e royalties and 10% wholesale print [...]



REVIEW: Ebook Weekly: Wings Epress, Inc

By Jayne • Mar 4th, 2007 • Category: Bookstore, Reviews

This week we're reviewing Wings E-Press. I’ll just use their promo blurb:

WPI opened its cyber doors at www.wings-press.com , with offerings in General Fiction and all genres of Romantic fiction. Books will be available as downloads in popular ebook formats, along with quality trade paperback editions. In addition to publishing a catalog of excellent fiction, [...]