Book Deals / Publishing NewsDeals / E. L. James / fan-fiction / Oprah47 Comments
News F&W is launching a digital book publishing company that will specialize in releasing digital copies of genre fiction from the 1940s to the 1970s. F+W Media is launching a new digital-only imprint, Prologue Books, that aims to reintroduce readers to previously out-of-print crime, sci-fi/fantasy, romance, western and YA titles ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Books on Board / Borders / criticism / Oprah / RITA / social media22 Comments
The Romance Reviews has a great big giveaway going on until August 31, 2010. Check them out. **** Barnes and Noble is advertising free digital books. Except these are books that are in the public domain so its a pretty lame promotion, if you ask me. I did a post ... more >
Publishing NewsMemoirs / Oprah41 Comments
Gabriel Sherman of The New Republic first broke the news that Angel at the Fence by Herman Rosenblat, Holocaust memoir, might be fabricated. Professor Kenneth Waltzer, the director of the Jewish Studies program at Michigan State University, became aware of the story and was suspicious of the details Rosenblat recounted. ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Kindle / Oprah5 Comments
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/oprah-wont-boos.html Anaylust Mark Mahaney of Citigroup does not believe that the Oprah endorsement of the Kindle will raise sales of the device for Amazon sufficient to make an impact on Amazon's bottom line. The support buttressing his argument is poor sales data from other online vendors. This is not to say ... more >
EbooksAmazon / ebook technology / Kindle / Oprah63 Comments
Oprah Winfrey has enormous consumer influence, particularly with the reading public. There is not an Oprah Book Club book that hasn’t enjoyed bestseller status for an extended period of time. A mere mention of a product on Oprah can “make” a retailer. So it was with no small sense of ... more >
Publishing Newsfree-book / Oprah2 Comments
Oprah is offering for free download, until 7 p.m. PST Friday, September 12, 2008, , The Truth About Cheating by M. Gary Neuman. It ” explores why men stray and what you can do to prevent it.” I thought science had proven why men strayed and short of removing the ... more >