Publishing NewsAmazon / Barnes & Noble / book prices / Borders / free-book / Intellectual Property Issues / sports romance61 Comments
Borders opens its ebook store to the public. It sells epubbed books using the standard epub encryption. Borders ebooks can be read on all devices that read epub. It is fulfilled by Kobo and thus has some backlist title problems which will hopefully be resolved over time. I’m not sure ... more >
Publishing Newsfree-book / Harlequin29 Comments
I can’t recall if I posted this but the winner of the copy of Petals from the Sky from last week's Intro Interview with Mingmei Yip is Ms. Bookjunkie. Send your post info to Alyson at daintrointerview AT gmail DOT com, and she'll get your book out to you. Congratulations! **** Donna Hayes, ... more >
Dear Jane: I’m see all these promotions for free ebooks (or cheap ebooks) but I don’t own an ebook reader and I don’t want to buy one just yet (I’m waiting for that perfect device). But I still want to read some of these books for free. Is there anyway ... more >
I received an email from reader Lynn about MyPadMedia selling access to free books. MyPadMedia was using Feedbooks feed improperly but the email prompted an issue I have wanted to talk about for a bit but never gotten around to it and that is the sale of public domain books ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / book business / book prices / free-book / privacy / reviews30 Comments
This New Yorker article is one of the best articles I’ve read about the Apple pricing model, Apple, Amazon, and publishers. Pieces of interest include that Apple has agreed to this type of pricing model for only one year and only publishers believe that higher digital prices can be sustained. ... more >
Publishing NewsACE-ROC / Author Reader Relationship / criticism-of-romance / free-book / iPad / Literary Criticism / social media32 Comments
I had a product demonstration of GetGlue today with Ami Grecko. I had learned of GetGlue before but I really didn’t understand how it worked. After all, do I really need another social networking service? At the end of the thirty minutes, I was convinced that this wasn’t just another ... more >