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

Last week, Amazon crept into consumer’s Kindles and deleted two ebooks that had been purchased: 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell.  These books are considered public domain in several countries but not in the US.  The copies that had been uploaded were not authorized copies for readers in the U.S.  Instead of contacting the [...]

The Kindle’ 2 price drop from $359 to $299.  Some reports say this is due to the drop in cost of manufacturing of the eink screens. Who knows.
Lucinda Betts and Elise Logan sent me the link to NPR’s piece by Jack Murnighan who is a closet romance reader (not so closeted anymore, Jack).  Wonder if Jack [...]

Once considered recession proof, the book business is suffering the same kind of economic turmoil as the rest. Booksellers, according to All Things Considered, incur 25% of the book sales in the holiday season. One long time bookseller is getting out of the new book business and will now sell used ones. [...]

NPR this morning discussed the fake memoir and the online previews of books. The acclaimed but fake memoir of Margaret B. Jones aka Peggy Seltzer came under attack by writers who actually did live the gang life. Needless to say, the writers feel disrespected by Seltzer’s attempt to profit off of their lives. [...]