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June 4, 2012

Monday Midday Links: Publishers Weekly’s big piece on romance

JanePublishing NewsPublishers-Weekly10 Comments

Wendy Wax ARC Giveaway – Monday, June 4 is the last day to enter Wendy Wax’s giveaway for one of three advance reader copies of her upcoming OCEAN BEACH, to be sent to the winners prior to the June 26th on sale date. Best of luck to all!! Just go ... more >

April 17, 2012

Tuesday Midday Links and Deals: Clarifying City Mom’s Authorial Status; Scholarly Papers Regarding Online Reviews

JaneBook Deals / Publishing NewsDeals / defamation / Publishers-Weekly / self-published42 Comments

Yesterday, I referred to City Mom blogger, Kim Strickland, at Chicago Now as a “self published author”. According to Ms. Strickland, that is libelous as she is not a self published author as her work was acquired by traditional publishers.  I’m not sure how calling her “self published” is libelous. ... more >

Publishers Weekly
September 7, 2010

Tuesday Midday Links: PW Gets a Romance Section

JanePublishing Newsbook business / book-sales / criticism-of-romance / Ebooks / genre critique / HarperCollins / Publishers-Weekly18 Comments

Publishers Weekly is one of the more democratic mainstream review publications and has been reviewing romance for quite some time. PW has decided to eliminate the mass market review section and replace it with dedicated genre sections. Romance will have its very own space edited by Rose Fox, a journalist ... more >

July 15, 2010

Thursday Midday Links: Dorchester Dis-invited from RWA

JanePublishing NewsAgency pricing / Audible / book prices / conferences / Dorchester-Publishing / Publishers-Weekly41 Comments

An author reported that Dorchester (registration required) was disinvited to the RWA Conference and would not be allowed to hold editor appointments, spotlights or workshops at the 2010 Conference taking place in two weeks. The reason for this is that Dorchester has not met contractual obligations to some authors and ... more >

August 2, 2009

Sunday News Round Up with One Bonus Author Amazon Freakout

JanePublishing NewsAuthor Reader Relationship / digital publishing / digital rights management / Publishers-Weekly20 Comments

RIAA (and hence the music industry) believes that your digital product should not play into perpetuity but rather you, the consumer, should be required to repurchase a digital product from time to time.   Steven Metalitz, an attorney representing the RIAA and MPAA, during the DMCA exemption hearings asserted the argument ... more >

February 17, 2009

Publishers Weekly Finds that the eBook Genie Is Out of the Bottle

JanePublishing NewsEbooks / epublishing / Publishers-Weekly5 Comments

Authors’ Guild wants its authors to withhold ebook rights until AG is done looking into the matter, but Publishers Weekly has an article about why ebooks are here to say and how different publishers are experimenting with concepts to harness technology to boost sales. 80% of teens have a cellphone ... more >

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