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This is kind of incredible, but if you want the digital backlist titles of Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton or Lora Leigh for free, this is how you do it.  Go to Fictionwise and open an account.  Buy one of the Evanovich or Grafton titles and pay for it with a credit card or paypal.  Once [...]

From a reader at Information Week, Barnes and Noble’s eBookstore aka Fictionwise + eReader will match the prices offered at Amazon.  Now if Fictionwise could only get its act in gear and offer the books that are released this week in a timely fashion.  Hard to get excited about good prices when significant books are [...]

Orbit is offering AFRAID by  Jack Kilborn as an eBook available for $1.99 for the month of April.  Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley is Orbit’s $1.00 title.   Ruckley’s new release, Fall of Thanes, will be available on 5/3/09 and the other title in the series, Bloodheir, is also available in ebook format.  (Someone seems to be listening to [...]

I’ve been criminally negligent in not keeping up with the news in the past few weeks but real life intruded. We’ll have a similar black out at the end of the month here, but in the meantime, here’s some choice bits of ebook tech news:

Barnes and Noble acquires Fictionwise for $15.7 million.
Gaming industry foresees [...]

I have so many words swirling around in my head as a result of the news broke on the Teleread.org blog that BN acquired Fictionwise. My first thought was, good on the Pendergrast brothers who were pioneers in the ebook retailing field. Fictionwise has always been a big supporter of non DRM’ed ebooks [...]

I don’t know if you could tell but I was totally panicked last week when I read about the Fictionwise break up with Overdrive. There are two major fulfillment sources for ebooks other than Fictionwise’s eReader: Overdrive and Lightning Source. These fulfillment companies take the raw text and design of an ebook and convert [...]

THIRD UPDATE: I’m just going to rewrite the post for tomorrow. Fictionwise is working assiduously (my word) to get publisher approval and it sounds like it is all going well. Also, I expressed my despair that so few new titles were available this week and this too is going to be addressed and [...]