Uncategorizedcondoms / Harlequin / Kobo27 Comments
Big Changes Are Coming to Harlequin.com! – When I read this my only response was finally. Harlequin is finally combining their print and digital sales into one site. No longer will you have to go to the ebook site and remember a new login account information. All of that will ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Kobo7 Comments
Before Miley, the internet was bemoaning Ben Affleck being chosen as the actor to play Batman in the next Superman movie. Someone even mocked up this picture: But, then, some talented person on the internet made this fake trailer to show how Ben Affleck could be Batman. I think Bryan ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthor Promotion / Kobo / zombies1 Comments
Are We Subjected To Literary Skeuomorphism? – This is a hard to read (black background, white text) short blog entry about the idea of literary skeuomorphism or how authors use something familiar to introduce readers to something unknown. This is actually something that Meljean Brook admitted doing in her first ... more >
EbooksBlueFire / Digital Reading Apps / iBooks / iPad / iPhone / iPhoneTomes / Kindle / Kobo / Marvin / MegaReader / Nook10 Comments
Last week Brian posted an update of reading apps for Android devices. Today I’m revisiting the major reading apps for the iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone and iTouch. Because of the prevalence of the iPhone and iTouch devices, all the images here are from the iPhone/iTouch except for the Marvin reading ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Kobo / lawsuits / Simon & Schuster11 Comments
BEA 2013: ‘The Whole Damn Thing’ – “What Sargent did say about the pending DoJ suit is that Justice is “extraordinarily myopic. They carried the water for Amazon, when it had 92% of the market.” And, he said, they prevented others from coming into the market. “The senior guys, Eric ... more >
Publishing Newsbook prices / Kobo / self-published11 Comments
Visual trigger warning. Some Facebook ads pulled over offensive content – A few women’s groups, The Everyday Sexism Project and Women, Action and the Media, began a campaign to get Facebook to start pulling some of the offensive content on its site posted by users. These action groups wanted pictures ... more >