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August 8, 2013

Thursday News: The Author run publishing houses; eBook silos

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Ebooks / ebook_formats / publishing13 Comments

Introducing Tule Publishing! | Janeblog – Yesterday, Jane Porter tweeted out this link that she had started a publishing house called Tule Publishing. There is no information about the house on the website, but you can see the first four covers of novellas that are being put out by this house and ... more >

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August 17, 2011

Wednesday Midday Links: Topless Female Duelists

JanePublishing News19th century / ebook_formats / editors / HarperCollins / lawsuits / Microsoft23 Comments

HarperCollins total year-end results are unclear given that parent company news Corp. did not break out  the division in the year-end report. However, the children’s division improved and e-book sales accounted for approximately 12% of all business in the US last year.  Source: PW **** Author Dorothea Benton Frank gave ... more >

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May 23, 2010

Dear Jane: What format should I buy?

JaneDear Janeebook_formats / epub / Harlequin31 Comments

Welcome to Dear Jane, a weekly column based upon reader mailbag questions on anything relating to ebooks. No question is too simple or too mundane. We are all learning together. Send your questions to jane @ dearauthor.com with “Dear Jane” in the subject matter. Dear Jane: Unless I am missing ... more >

August 13, 2009

Thursday Morning News Links: ePub May Be Winning the Format War

JanePublishing Newsebook_formats / iaspr / Rosetta Books / self-published / Sony10 Comments

One of the barriers of entry for ebook reading is the myriad of formats but the headache might be easing for readers. Sony has announced it will drop its own proprietary ebook format, BBeB (also known as LRF), and sell ONLY epub format. I think it makes sense for the ... more >

July 22, 2009

Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore Is Neither Sound Nor Fury

JaneBookstore / EbooksBarnes & Noble / Ebooks / ebookstore / ebook_formats20 Comments

I had to write this post after reading all the headlines on Twitter about Barnes and Noble’s ebookstore presenting real competition for the Amazon Kindle.    It’s not and here’s why. First, BN’s ebookstore is simply that, a store. There is no device.   Kindle captured the burgeoning ebook crowd not ... more >

December 21, 2008

How to Convert an MS Lit File to Html

JaneEbooksebook-conversion / ebook_formats26 Comments

I was going to post today about how to convert a file using OpenOffice but I wasn’t able to successfully do it. If I figure it out, though, I’ll post about it.    Most ebooks are available in MS Lit format.   I usually buy in MS Lit format but in ... more >

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