JanePublishing NewsAmazon / Borders / ebook software / Google / Literary Criticism6 Comments

Amazon is cutting off affiliates right and left, some due to taxing issues within the state, but it removed any affiliate fees for Kindle books; eliminated search related affiliate fees and not won’t pay for tweeted links. I’m of the opinion that Amazon is trying to strategically reduce any affiliate ... more >

June 7, 2009

Google Enters the Ebook Market

JaneEbooksEbooks / Google / Google eBooks13 Comments

The idea of ownership of ebooks is quite ephemeral. There is no resale. No return. No sharing. Essentially a reader’s right of first sale is totally obliterated by a digital book. I joked with someone the other day that you really only have a leasehold interest in the digital book ... more >

JanePollGoogle / poll30 Comments

Here’s what’s on Google’s home page on May 16, 2009: Over 28,000 children drew doodles for our homepage. Vote for the one that will appear here! Anyone who has read this blog has already figured out that we could use a few grammar lessons. I like to think I know ... more >

JaneEbooks / Publishing NewsGoogle / Google Book Settlement / lawsuits1 Comments

Two important pieces of news have developed about the Google Book Settlement.   First, the court has granted an extension on filing papers for opting out of the settlement. Prominent authors like Patricia Briggs and Kresley Cole and Meljean Brook have opted out but I also know that major agents have ... more >

JanePublishing NewsGoogle / Sony Reader2 Comments

Some ebook news. Here is the Diesel romance ebook press release discussing it’s 400+ bundles. Of interest is that Diesel claims 60,000 customers. That seems like a big number to me for some reason given that digital books only make up a small percentage of overall book sales. Maybe by ... more >

JanePublishing NewsGoogle6 Comments

When I first read this article in Time magazine, I thought for sure it was a hoax. A Google widget to protect yourself from emailing drunken messages over the internets? Surely not. I then googled it and sure enough, Gmail has a new feature called Mail Goggles. An email won’t ... more >