Letters of OpinionAudible / audiobooks / Books / digital / format / genres / Harlequin Audio / readers / story28 Comments
Audiobooks are my new object of affection. Now that I have a commute, I can make the ride feel more productive when I listen to a book on the way to my office. And I already have my favorite narrators. Barbara Rosenblat is Amelia Peabody in my mind’s ear, and ... more >
Publishing NewsArt / book-sales / Carly Phillips / digital publishing / Ebooks / fan-fiction / filmmaking / gender / genres / graphic novels / Hollywood / Kindle Worlds / Race10 Comments
What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions and inferences. So instead of stopping at the point where ... more >
Letters of OpinionAgency pricing / book buying habits / digital books / digital publishing / genres / print books / Reader Habits / subgeneres46 Comments
I don’t know about you all, but I could use a small breather from the heavy this week. So as I was thinking about this week’s post, I kept circling back to a couple of interesting tweets from Digital Book World. First, a comment from Kobo’s head bookseller, Nathan Maharaj, ... more >
Publishing Newscopyright / Facebook / genres / Google Books / infographic / infringement / intellectual property / lawsuit / Penguin Random House / publishing / readers / trademark / Twitter6 Comments
The Penguin Publishing Group Takes Shape – So now that Penguin Random House has made its initial adjustments and realignments, CEO Markus Dohle has streamlined Penguin’s imprints by placing them all under new President of Penguin Publishing Group Madeline McIntosh. McIntosh’s promotion also means that Penguin Group USA President Susan ... more >