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December 30, 2015

Wednesday News: On deals, coloring, making, and leading

JanetPublishing News1960s / Art / Burning Man / coloring books / E-books / leadership / maker culture / marketing / Publishers / social critique3 Comments

Daily E-Book Deals Are Gaining Traction – Services like BookBub are becoming more popular marketing tools for publishers like Kensington and Simon & Schuster. As traditional publishers continue to raise e-book prices, they are also hoping to sell more digital content through daily deals, even as they worry (sigh) about conditioning readers ... more >

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December 26, 2014

Friday News: Facebook faces new lawsuit, new view of a marriage proposal, rules for creative success, the evolving e-book universe

JanetPublishing Newsbusiness advice / class action lawsuit / digital publishing / E-books / Facebook / graphs / marriage proposal / privacy / publishing / security1 Comments

Facebook facing class-action lawsuit over unauthorized message scanning – Sent or received a private message in Facebook over the past two years? Then you may very well be part of the class that is now allowed to proceed with a claim against the social network for scanning private messages, supposedly ... more >

Still Hot For You by Diane Escalera
February 9, 2012

REVIEW: Still Hot For You by Diane Escalera

DabneyC ReviewsC Reviews / E-books / Lyrical Press3 Comments

Dear Ms. Escalera, In the teaser for your book, Still Hot for You, your publisher Lyrical Press, describes it thusly: Want to get your man talking?  Give him booty! Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Shay LaCosta is pretty desperate. She’s wrecked her blissful marriage of five years by ... more >

December 22, 2009

Tuesday Midday Links: Blogger Bundles Up for Presale (& Giveaway)

JaneFeaturesAmazon / book business / digital rights management / E-books / Ebooks / Harlequin / publishing48 Comments

Candace Sams continues her notoriety tour by making the Guardian blog. “When Authors Attack” is the headline. Sams has since deleted her posts, but we do have screenshots for posterity sake. If you haven’t had your fill of Amazon review craziness, check out the review thread for this book that ... more >

December 21, 2009

Monday Midday Links: Lisa Valdez’s Patience Gets a Firm Release Date

JaneFeatures / Publishing NewsE-books / Ebooks / Julia Spencer-Fleming / Lisa-Valdez / NYTimes / publishing industry / Random-House27 Comments

The UK focused publishing site, The Bookseller, had an article that suggests the delay of ebooks could only strengthen Amazon instead of weakening it. UK trade insider warned deferral was dangerous. “It is never a good response to say to a consumer: "We know you want this but we are ... more >

June 26, 2008

Kindle Teams Up with University Presses

JanePublishing NewsE-books / Kindle11 Comments

Kindle is working with Princeton, Oxford, Yale and the UC to put some of their textbooks into ebook format so that a student can order and download the book directly from the Kindle. How much savings that will represent for a student is unknown. I tried to always buy used ... more >

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