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 NewsAmazon / book prices / Fictionwise / Kindle12 Comments

From a reader at Information Week, Barnes and Noble’s eBookstore aka Fictionwise + eReader will match the prices offered at Amazon.   Now if Fictionwise could only get its act in gear and offer the books that are released this week in a timely fashion.   Hard to get excited about good ... more >

JaneBook ReviewsDeals / Fictionwise / Harlequin / Orbit / Warner-Forever9 Comments

Orbit is offering  AFRAID by   Jack Kilborn as an eBook available for $1.99 for the month of April.   Winterbirth by  Brian Ruckley  is Orbit’s $1.00 title.    Ruckley’s new release, Fall of Thanes, will be available on 5/3/09 and the other title in the series, Bloodheir, is also available in ebook format.   (Someone ... 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 >