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May 15, 2013

Designing the look of a genre, by accident: Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations

JaneInterviewscover-art17 Comments

If you look at the top selling New Adult books on the market, you may be surprised to learn that they are almost all created by the same cover designer, one Sarah from Okay Creations.  Sarah is so identifiable and that there is a goodreads list designated just for her.  ... more >

May 3, 2013

Friday News: B&N and S&S standoff doesn’t appear to be hurting S&S; AAR Lynn Spencer notices a decline in historicals; Cover Cafe Annual Contest is now on! Go Vote!

JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / cover-art / Cover-Cafe / digital lending / Simon & Schuster27 Comments

Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but ... more >

Taking a Shot
January 21, 2013

Monday News: Strange musings from Harper Magazine publisher; cover WTFery; Google’s cure for passwords

JanePublishing Newscover-art / free-book15 Comments

Google’s Media Barons – John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine, has published a strange op ed piece arguing that Google is engaged in “for profit theft” by providing “logistical support for pirating and repackaging everything that we writers, editors, and publishers hold dear.” I’m not exactly sure what ... more >

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January 16, 2013

Wednesday News: CBS interferes with the CES best of show; Apple’s price maintenance; Harlequin’s Bachelor covers

JanePublishing NewsApple / cover-art / Harlequin / social media12 Comments

CBS says it won’t interfere in CNET’s ‘actual news,’ just reviews – At the end of CES, the Hopper DVR by DISH was voted best of the conference until CBS forced its subsidiary CNET employees to overturn their votes. CBS is in litigation with DISH and didn’t want DISH to ... more >

Bachelor Harlequin Photo Shoot
January 14, 2013

Monday News: A small suggestion for cover art change; US leads in under 50 male deaths; Harlequin + Bachelor cover photo sneak peek

JanePublishing Newscover-art / Harlequin8 Comments

Analyzing 2012?s Bestselling Books and Ebooks in the US and UK | Publishing Perspectives – Mainstream publishing in 2012 was hit driven and over half of the 2012 bestselling books where either 50 Shades or Hunger Games titles. The only other selling book of note was a Wimpy Kid title. ... more >

Elaine Gignilliat
October 3, 2012

Wednesday News: New issues of copyright arise with 3D printing; B&N pulls Amazon titles off the shelves; Japan’s Louve Joule

JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / cover-art / Intellectual Property Issues15 Comments

Barnes & Noble reportedly instructs local stores to pull Amazon titles – Some Barnes & Noble stores were carrying Amazon published books until it was reported by blogger MobyLives (who has several Amazon is killing publishing posts). Now B&N has sent a company wide email instructing those books to be removed ... more >

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