July 1, 2014

Tuesday News: Online book sales outpacing brick and mortar, notes on the ALA Conference, is new content killing journalism?, and Hobby Lobby’s purity standard

JanetPublishing NewsALA / bookstores / Carnegie Medal / conferences / digital books / gender / journalism / Libraries / sexism / writing25 Comments

US book publishers are making more through online sales than physical stores – Not only have audiobooks increased in popularity over the past year, but the 2013 joint report by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group (link to the report in the article) indicates that ... more >

April 30, 2014

Wednesday News: To Kill a Mockingbird goes digital, BookCon fails to diversify, “expert” writer fakes credits, and book burning through history

JanetPublishing Newsbook burning / censorship / conferences / digital publishing / diversity / fraud / Harper Lee / intellectual property29 Comments

Harper Lee OKs e-book version of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ – On Harper Lee’s 88th birthday, her publisher, Harper Collins, announced that To Kill a Mockingbird would be released in digital on July 8, 2014, which is also the 54th anniversary of the book’s original publication. Lee prefers paper books ... more >

July 8, 2011

Interview with Tara Parsons, senior editor of HQN.

JaneInterviewsconferences / Harlequin22 Comments

Tara Parsons is the Senior Editor of HQN. HQN publishes contemporary, suspense, paranormal, and historical romances. They will publish 87 titles in 2012. The big news is that current Spice authors are being moved into Harlequin’s other single title programs. Harlequin’s flagship romance brand, HQN, will absorb the existing Spice ... 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 >

JaneInterviewsconferences / kensingtonComments Off on Meeting with Megan Records Kensington

Megan Records is an Associate Editor at Kensington. She is the editor for the RITA nominated Rebel by Zoe Archer. She also edits Mary Jo Putney and Cynthia Eden among others. Zoe Archer’s new series is called the Hellraisers. The main characters have literally sold their soul to the devil ... more >