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

RIAA (and hence the music industry) believes that your digital product should not play into perpetuity but rather you, the consumer, should be required to repurchase a digital product from time to time.  Steven Metalitz, an attorney representing the RIAA and MPAA, during the DMCA exemption hearings asserted the argument that digital is ephemeral.
“We reject [...]

Authors’ Guild wants its authors to withhold ebook rights until AG is done looking into the matter, but Publishers Weekly has an article about why ebooks are here to say and how different publishers are experimenting with concepts to harness technology to boost sales.

80% of teens have a cellphone
Publishers are using ebooks to seed viral [...]

Publishers Weekly has published its Best Of 2008 list and the mass market list included Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas.  Her’s was the only one on the list that I read.  Congrats everyone.  
No One Heard Her Scream by Jordan Dane (Avon)
The Face by Angela Hunt (Mira)
Deadly Deceptions by Linda Lael Miller (HQN)
Heart of the [...]

We review here for free, but it’s not much different if you review for a trade magazine like Publishers Weekly. With traditional media hurting financially, PW has responded one way by reducing the amount of money that reviewers will be paid for each review to $25.00. Obviously reviewing is done by those who [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the news came down that the PW Tech blog was being put on hold. I wondered what that meant for romance blogger, Barbara Vey. She’s having a one year anniversary and will be off to a conference to talk about blogging for PW. I suggest that if [...]

Publishers’ Weekly is up on the auction block and its causing some internal turmoil. David Rothman of Teleread.org got the notice that the ebook blog will be put on hold. A few months ago, PW blogger, Barbara Vey mentioned that her editor got laid off, and now I wonder how long Ms. Vey’s [...]

Reed Business Information (in its guise as Publishers Weekly) was a co-founder of the Quill Awards which was one part Oscar, one part People’s Choice with Publisher’s Weekly putting up a slate of nominees and the readers voting on that slate. Nora Roberts won Book of the Year in 2007 for Angels Fall.
Publishers Weekly [...]