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

Amazon is cutting off affiliates right and left, some due to taxing issues within the state, but it removed any affiliate fees for Kindle books; eliminated search related affiliate fees and not won’t pay for tweeted links. I’m of the opinion that Amazon is trying to strategically reduce any affiliate fees.
USA Today had a [...]

Calibre is a software program that is developed by a devoted reader and brilliant programmer, kovidgoyal. The program is free and open source, available for MAC, Windows PC, and Linux users. This week I’m going to address Calibre as the eBook management tool, a program I think is a must for every ebook [...]

I am still digesting and working on a post regarding the Google BookSearch Settlement.  If you have thoughts on it, feel free to email me (jane at dearauthor.com).  I’m fairly concerned about the future impacts and my initial feelings are ones of concern.  Today, though, I thought I would give some bullet point items about [...]

Bookshelf is the pro creation of Zac Bedell who developed the very first ebook reader for the iPhone. It costs $9.99 and comes with a java based shelfserver which provides a fairly easy way to load ebooks onto your iPhone. There were two things missing from the old Books.app and one was [...]

Last week, I addressed what formats were commonly sold by epublishers. One of the commenters noted last week that she tried html format but it didn’t have any of the advantages of the other software such as bookmarking, annotations, library, etc. It is a true that reading an html file with a browser [...]

The question I often see around message boards is which format should I buy. Most publishers/ebook stores will offer at least 2, if not 6 or 7 different formats. For a novice ereader or even one who has been reading ebooks for a few years, this is problematic.
There are lots of [...]