JaneEbooksFictionwise13 Comments

This is kind of incredible, but if you want the digital backlist titles of Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton or Lora Leigh for free, this is how you do it.   Go to Fictionwise and open an account.   Buy one of the Evanovich or Grafton titles and pay for it with a ... more >

JanePublishing NewsApple / Barnes & Noble / Ebooks / Fictionwise / iPhone / Kindle / piracy / Random-House / Stephen-King6 Comments

I’ve been criminally negligent in not keeping up with the news in the past few weeks but real life intruded. We’ll have a similar black out at the end of the month here, but in the meantime, here’s some choice bits of ebook tech news: Barnes and Noble acquires Fictionwise ... more >

JaneEbooksBarnes & Noble / Ebooks / Fictionwise22 Comments

I have so many words swirling around in my head as a result of the news broke on the Teleread.org blog that BN acquired Fictionwise. My first thought was, good on the Pendergrast brothers who were pioneers in the ebook retailing field. Fictionwise has always been a big supporter of ... more >

January 11, 2009

How to Deal with the Breakup of Fictionwise and Overdrive

JaneEbooksdigital rights management / Fictionwise / Overdrive15 Comments

I don’t know if you could tell but I was totally panicked last week when I read about the Fictionwise break up with Overdrive. There are two major fulfillment sources for ebooks other than Fictionwise’s eReader: Overdrive and Lightning Source. These fulfillment companies take the raw text and design of ... more >

JaneEbooksdigital rights management / Ebooks / Fictionwise38 Comments

THIRD UPDATE: I’m just going to rewrite the post for tomorrow. Fictionwise is working assiduously (my word) to get publisher approval and it sounds like it is all going well. Also, I expressed my despair that so few new titles were available this week and this too is going to ... more >

JaneBook Reviewsdigital publishing / Fictionwise / iPhone3 Comments

I went to upload a new book into my personal content shelf for the iPhone/iTouch at Fictionwise this morning and my previously added books were completely gone. Further, I can’t add any new content. I am sure I have back ups of all the books that I uploaded to the ... more >