Publishing 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 >
Book 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >
Publishing 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 >