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Publishers Weekly has posted a special online issue devoted to virality and books. It’s very much directed toward the trade and focuses on what publishers and industry folks can do to “harness” the internet, including blogging themselves.
Publishing Trends has a multi-part series focused on the new world of book reviews online. I don’t [...]

Dennis Chin, the judge assigned to affirm or reject the Google Book Settlement, has been tapped to move to the 2nd Circuit judicial position, one of which was formerly held by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.    Today, the House Judiciary meeting is holding a hearing on the Google Book Settlement. Mary Beth Peters, [...]

Barnes and Noble will offer free ATT wifi access in all its retail stores. Once on the wifi access, you’ll be able to get access to instore promotions and the ability to buy your ebooks.
Wendy, the SuperLibrarian, wonders if bloggers can actually make a book. Wendy says that publicists can’t expect this of a [...]

Nalini Singh created her own meme to generate publicity for her upcoming March release, Visions of Heat (Berkley Sensation). If you post the meme on your blog, you’ll be entered in a contest to win a $50 Amazon voucher and an Advanced Copy of Book 3 of her series, Caressed by Ice. Do [...]

The winner of the Nalini Singh Viral Blogging Experiment is Barbara Samuel, chosen by the Random Number Generator at Random.Org. (can’t get more random than that, right?) We had a total of 152 posts and 144 unique posters. What I did was click on the Random Sequence link and entered the numbers 1 [...]

CONTEST HAS CLOSED AS OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2006. See updated note below
WIN $200 AMAZON Gift certificate from DearAuthor.com by participating in a blogging experiment
UPDATE To see if you have been entered, please check this post. I have listed all the entrants that I know of. If I haven’t caught you, leave a comment [...]