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Fiction DB Is Now Free

By Jane • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

Fiction DB, a one stop resource of authors, titles, publication dates, and even purchasing, is free. FictionDB used to cost money to see entire backlists of authors and take advantage of its 200,000+ book database. As of Tuesday, May 20, 2008, the entire database is free. This site contains a comprehensive backlist [...]



Lack of Software Makes iPhone Ebook Reading Primitive

By Jane • Jul 8th, 2007 • Category: Ebooks, Letters of Opinion, Misc

Last Friday, the innovative iPhone went on sale. Since its announcement in January, I’ve been vacillating back and forth debating whether I would purchase one or not. However, on Friday evening, we decided to hop over to the Apple Store to see what they looked like. There was no line and there [...]



AAR Has Gone Crazy

By Jane • Mar 16th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

All About Romance has been having technical difficulties with its message board system. The decision has been made to move from the rolling message board that needed no registration to a more traditional message board system. Instead of one board, however, AAR will now have 7 boards and for [...]



Amazon Invests in Online Personal Book Database Software

By Jane • Feb 26th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

Shelfari is a Seattle based company that launched quietly last fall to compete with Library Thing, a commonly seen widget used on reader blogs accross the net. Shelfari allows you to input your books, rate them, and show them off on your blog. You can also enter your amazon associates id and earn [...]