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July 18, 2010

Sunday Midday News: Publisher Behaving Badly

JanePublishing 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 >

December 26, 2008

Penguin’s Holocaust Memoir Under Fire for Being Fabricated

JanePublishing 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 >

November 6, 2008

Kindle Prospects Unaided by Oprah

JanePublishing 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 >

October 26, 2008

Oprah Seal of Approval for the Kindle and What It Means for eBooks

JaneEbooksAmazon / 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 >

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