Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Hardcovers are the lifeblood of the trade publishing industry. Without hardcovers, the trade publishing industry will die.
David Young, CEO Hachette Book Group: “I can’t sit back and watch years of building authors sold off at bargain-basement prices. It’s about the future of the business.” (Via WSJ)
Facts. Trade publishing is referred to as such because [...]

In the ereading category:

Sony officially announced its two new ebook readers to be available at the end of the month. The more affordable device has a 5″ screen, no external memory card, 512 internal MB on board (that will allow you to load over 500 books depending on the format), and will come in [...]

Diane Pershing’s stance, and one that she is taking on behalf of the RWA, is that digital publishing model of high royalties v. no advances is not a legitimate business model. This post discusses why digital publishing is legitimate and offers insight (I hope) for whom digital publishing might benefit.
The digital publishing model.
The digital [...]

In the most recent RWR, a monthly publication put out by the RWA, Diane Pershing’s president’s letter contained a very wordy assessment of RWA’s commitment to its 10,000+ membership which can be condensed into this: digital publishing is not a legitimate business model and those who are in digital publishing are not sufficiently “career-focused”?
How do [...]

Coming on the heels of speculation that Kindle might be  considering some kind of epub participation either by offering epubs or opening the Kindle up is the release of source code for the Kindle, Kindle 2, and the Kindle Dx.  I think this points toward Kindle opening up its platform to accept other formats (and [...]

One of the greatest challenges facing digital publishing today is the perception gap.  That is to say, there is a perceived gap in quality between books published in e form and books published in print by the NY houses.
I suffer from the perception gap myself which isn’t helped when I come across books like The [...]

Last September I blogged that Literary Fiction should embrace digital publishing because “the psuedo profit sharing that the new arm of HarperCollins is testing: no advances, higher royalties” made sense for the embattled publishing industry.
E publishing, with its low overhead, provides a safety net for experimental fiction, the bailiwick of literary fiction. E [...]