Publishing Newsbook prices / book-covers / copyright / Fantasy Romance / gender bias / Smashwords3 Comments
Smashwords: New Smashwords Survey Helps Authors Sell More eBooks – Mark Coker shares some Smashwords data with the public. How much of this can be extrapolated to overall sales is unknown. Some interesting points include that the #1 bestselling book outsells the #500 by 37 times in total revenue; longer ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / digital lending / Smashwords10 Comments
Califa Lands $325,000 in Funding for Ebook Ownership Project; Deal Close With Smashwords — The Digital Shift – “The San Mateo-based Califa Group, which is the largest library network in California, has made major strides in its project to create an ebook ownership model along the same lines as the ... more >
Publishing Newsself-published / Smashwords / Sony7 Comments
8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (updated) | Ars Technica – “An unknown hacker has posted more than 8 million cryptographic hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn and a separate, popular dating website. … The massive dumps over the past three days ... more >
Book Deals / Publishing Newsfemale writers / Smashwords26 Comments
Scots crime writer Shona MacLean ‘killed off’ to appeal to men – Scotland – Scotsman.com – “SCOTTISH crime writer Shona MacLean has been forced to change her name – to S G MacLean – to make her novels more appealing to men. The change follows the publication of three successful ... more >
Publishing NewsAll-Romance-Ebooks / Paypal / Siren-Bookstrand Inc / Smashwords62 Comments
Background Back in 2007, Jayne and I reviewed ebookstores. There seemed to be new ones that were announced everyday. When All Romance eBooks launched in 2007, it lacked the Paypal option. It would later add Paypal in October of 2007. Commenters informed us that Paypal had content restrictions. One reason ... more >
Publishing NewsDreamspinner Press / Paypal / plagiarism / Smashwords628 Comments
Updated x1: Ms. Manning has commented and provided an apology: I’ve gone back and forth on how to address this for several hours. A personal blog post would not be seen by enough people. Nor would a response to Ms. Fielding’s blog. When Dear Author posted this blog, I felt ... more >