Publishing NewsAuthor Promotion / best of list / Borders / ebook sales / social media / Twitter70 Comments
Susan Mallery is an author whose promotional work intrigues me. My responses to her novels have been all over the place from loathe to love but, for the most part, I find her promotional voice works, in part because I never get the sense that she is selling me anything ... more >
Publishing Newsbook prices / book-sales / ebook sales / Ethics / GBKS / piracy / shame32 Comments
RWA President Michelle Monkou is fielding questions today on blog talk radio. The start time is at noon CST. I wish someone would call in and ask what RWA’s stance is on the change in pricing and Google Book Settlement. Link here.. I would call but I don’t think they ... more >
Features / Publishing NewsConventions / Courtney Milan / ebook sales / Harlequin / Publishing Sales / Simon & Schuster17 Comments
Jason Pinter wonders whether being online and so accessible removes the mystique of an author and thereby reduces one’s ability to sell books. **** More authors are getting into the casual gaming platform. Orchid Games released Heartwild Solitaire Classic and recruited a few authors to write short stories that players ... more >
Features / Publishing Newsebook sales / Harlequin / Kindle / self-published11 Comments
Harlequin is launching Harlequin Horizons through a partnership with Author Solutions, Inc. Through this strategic alliance; all sales, marketing, publishing, distribution, and book-selling services will be fulfilled by ASI; but Harlequin Horizons will exist as a division of Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Harlequin will monitor sales of books published through the ... more >
Ebooks / Features / Letters of Opinionbook prices / ebook sales / Elloras-Cave65 Comments
Ellora’s Cave is finally selling its ebooks outside of its own portal, jasminejade.com. Strangely, though, Ellora’s Cave is setting its list prices at third party vendors at twice the rate of the ebook price at jasminejade.com. For example, Jade Black’s After the Storm sells for $7.99 in unencrypted PDF, HTML, ... more >
Book ReviewsBantam Dell Ballantine / ebook sales / Forever / Hachette/Grand Central / kensington / Samhain-publishing9 Comments
Buy 2 or more Harlequin eBooks from Sony Store on Wednesdays & you’ll receive a code for a free ebook. Orbit’s $1.00 title is Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson The following are Forever $1.99 titles from Grand Central. Grand Central makes these deals available to all etailers who carry ... more >