August 9, 2011

Tuesday Midday Links: PubIt! Review Day for Self Pubbed Authors

JanePublishing NewsAmazon Montlake / Apple / Barnes & Noble / book business / lawsuits / Literary Criticism26 Comments

PubIt! asked Dear Author to participate in their review day event on Facebook. PubIt! posted blog summaries on its wall and invited self published authors to make short pitches. Our blog summary was that we wanted unusual historicals and erotic romances and were looking to review books between 50,000 and ... more >

July 18, 2011

Monday Midday Links: A New Fave Cover and Book Group Sale Sites

JanePublishing Newsbook business / Charlotte Featherstone / Deals / ebook royalties / epilogues / HarperCollins29 Comments

Enjoy sites like Groupon or Living Social?  If so, you aren’t alone.  Around 50 million people have used Groupon inviting a hoard of copy cat social coupon sites like locusts to a wheat field.  All Things D reports that Hearst Owned magazines will launch its own group commerce site that ... more >

JanePublishing NewsAbout-Us / book business / brick and mortar / digital rights management / Maya-Banks24 Comments

I can hardly believe it is already Thursday. The holiday shortened week (for the US readers) and last week’s RWA conference has me all mixed up. Hopefully I will get caught up by Sunday. Item number one today is the news that we are going to host a Q&A with ... more >

JanePublishing Newsbook business / conferences / digital publishing / editors / publishing44 Comments

Here is my list of things I learned from RWA 2011: Harlequin and Sourcebooks are really interested in what the reader has to say in all areas of the publishing process from the cover, titles, and content to how the stories are sold.  They use their blogs, facebook and twitter ... more >

JaneInterviews / Publishing Newsbook business / conferences / digital publishing / Harlequin28 Comments

I asked Harlequin about a couple of things regarding the new royalty rate as well as whether Bob Mayer’s claims that Harlequin was inserting a non compete clause in its new contracts to prevent authors from self publishing. Here is their response (from Donna Hayes, CEO of Harlequin) Concern: These ... more >

June 25, 2011

Saturday Midday Links: Harlequin Raises Its Digital Royalty Rate, Kind Of

JanePublishing Newsbook business / digital publishing / Harlequin / self-published / Tor31 Comments

Tor Books is launching an “Author Voices” digital initiative.  Starting with RWA, Tor will be releasing free content exclusively for convention goers via a QR Code at the Tor booth and then after to the general public (for free) as an ebook download at most etailers. Amazon has a link ... more >