Publishing NewsBorders / digital lending / digital publishing / Kindle27 Comments
I’m reposting these deals in case someone missed them yesterday. Halfway to the Grave with Bonus Material: A Night Huntress Novel for $1.99 * Amazon | nook | Kobo Cassie Palmer Series: Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night and Curse the Dawn in one bundle by Karen Chance ... more >
Publishing NewsBorders / Scribd6 Comments
One of the things I did at RWA was meet with industry people. Okay that’s all I did but I actually got something accomplished besides doing interviews. I met with Anne Watters Westpheling from Scribd and she shared with me their new App. It’s called Float and it’s designed to ... more >
Publishing NewsBorders / Google / Sony17 Comments
Google has partnered with iRiver to introduce a new ebook reader to the market. This will be sold at Target and online. PC World has a really good review of the device. The pro of the device is that it has the crispest screen of any eink device on the ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Borders / cover-art / Kobo / Promotion / quality control31 Comments
On Tuesday (I think it was Tuesday), I downloaded the teaser chapters of Connie Brockway’s Amazon Montlake book. Amazon Montlake, you’ll recall, is Amazon’s romance imprint. The teaser chapters are designed to promote Brockway’s book and encourage you to buy the title when it is released in November. I am ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthor Reader Relationship / Borders / Google Book Settlement / Jennifer-Crusie / self-published37 Comments
At RT, there were dozens of workshops about self publishing. I sat on a panel myself with HP Mallory and Mark Coker. HP Mallory has sold over 130,000 copies of her self published books and has scored a 6 figure deal with Random House for publication of three forthcoming titles. ... more >
Publishing NewsBorders / DABWAHA / self-published30 Comments
DABWAHA Voting started up again. Courtney Milan and Loretta Chase are dueling it out in a very close race. **** Borders romance buyer, Sue Grimshaw, will be the new Editor at Large and Category Specialist for Random House acquiring “selective romance titles for hardcover, paperback and original digital lists”. Original ... more >