Publishing Newscondom / mature / scanning / SourceBooks14 Comments
Sourcebooks Partners with Xcite Books to Bring Award-Winning Erotic Romance to U.S. – Sourcebooks has become the distributor of the UK’s Xcite line. The press release says Xcite Books is the UK’s largest publisher of erotic romance. I confess that sometimes I think UK’s version of erotic romance doesn’t always ... more >
Publishing Newsbranding / feminism / Multifunction-Device / scanning17 Comments
Limecello has been hosting a charity drive on her blog and it ends this Sunday. Various authors have committed to donating money to the famine relief effort in exchange for comments. You can read more about it here. ***** Sarah and I are conducting a reader panel at RT in 2012. ... more >
Publishing NewsGoogle Book Settlement / Microsoft-Live-Search / New-York-Times / scanning1 Comments
As I was waiting for a meeting yesterday, I saw CNN reporting on the issue of libraries and scanning. Some well known research libraries are turning down Microsoft and Google’s offers to scan the contents of the libraries for free. Of course, nothing is really free, and the libraries do ... more >
Ebooksdigital rights management / Ebooks / piracy / scanning9 Comments
JK Rowling is famously known amonst online book circles as the highest profile author to refuse to allow digitization of her books. This has not deterred individuals from offering a home brew ebook version of every title in the Harry Potter series. In fact, Book 6 was released at midnight ... more >