JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Kobo / lawsuits / Simon & Schuster11 Comments

BEA 2013: ‘The Whole Damn Thing’ – “What Sargent did say about the pending DoJ suit is that Justice is “extraordinarily myopic. They carried the water for Amazon, when it had 92% of the market.” And, he said, they prevented others from coming into the market. “The senior guys, Eric ... more >

May 3, 2013

Friday News: B&N and S&S standoff doesn’t appear to be hurting S&S; AAR Lynn Spencer notices a decline in historicals; Cover Cafe Annual Contest is now on! Go Vote!

JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / cover-art / Cover-Cafe / digital lending / Simon & Schuster27 Comments

Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but ... more >

March 26, 2013

Tuesday News: B&N still fighting with Simon & Schuster; DeBeer’s mind control over society; and authors caught in the middle

JanePublishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Simon & Schuster30 Comments

Barnes & Noble-Simon & Schuster Dispute Said to Hurt Sales – Back in January, PW reported that Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble were having a disagreement over terms. Melville House noted in February that S&S books were still being stocked at low levels suggesting that the disagreement had ... more >

March 15, 2013

REVIEW: The Murmurings by Carly Anne West

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Dear Ms. West, I loved reading teen horror novels when I was younger. Old school Christopher Pike? Fear Street? Sign me up! Despite the explosion of YA novels in recent years, however, I haven’t seen many fall into the horror genre. So when I read the premise of your novel, ... more >

January 31, 2013

Thursday News: B&N supporting publishers who support their bookstores;

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S&S, B&N in Dispute over Terms – Publishers Weekly sent out an alert regarding a dispute between Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble which has resulted in B&N “significantly reduc[ing] its orders from S&S. The main reason for the cutback seems to be, according to sources, B&N’s perceived lack ... more >

January 25, 2013

Friday News: CT gov’t proposes fair prices for libraries; Cufflinks that open handcuffs; More rumors about S&S on sale

JanePublishing NewsBDSM / digital lending / Simon & Schuster / sports romance6 Comments

Connecticut Government proposes bill to require publishers to sell to libraries – Connecticut is the first state to propose a bill which would “require publishers of electronic books to offer e-books for sale to public and academic libraries at the same rates as offered to the general public. ” I’m ... more >