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harlequin books
September 30, 2013

Monday News: Harlequin print and digital consumer sites merge; Kobo says it will be a billion dollar company in 2014; New medical HIV prevention device

JaneUncategorizedcondoms / 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 >

Batman Robin
August 28, 2013

Wednesday News: Kobo introduces new slate of ereaders; B&N retail chief sells shares; A selection of YA covers

JanePublishing 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 >

June 18, 2013

Tuesday News: Literary Skeumorphism; Zombies; and Kobo’s data partnership with Google

JanePublishing 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 >

June 9, 2013

Reading with iOS 101, a reading app guide – Revisited

JaneEbooksBlueFire / 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 >

May 31, 2013

Friday News: S&S and BN still in a fight; Bookstores believe ebook growth is plateauing

JanePublishing 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 >

May 30, 2013

Thursday News: Facebook responds to social media campaign to remove hate speech directed toward women; Daily Deals work to increase book sales; Kobo reports increase in sales

JanePublishing 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 >

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