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April 11, 2012 | Wednesday | 14 Comments
If you're reaction to the Department of Justice is a bit of "what?" and "huh?" here's plenty of explanation and education. First, you can read the documents filed by the Department of Justice (pdf) in New York's Southern District court. The documents explain the case, the processes of print and ebook publishing, and allegations that caused the suit to be filed. Point of note: references to "horizontal conspiracy" create mental images that are unintentionally silly. (I went and looked for a few links to explain the basics of antitrust, and I discovered a strange phenomenon. Many of the pages that explain the…
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June 21, 2010 | Monday | 8 Comments
It’s time for the first meeting of the Sizzling Summer Book Club, brought to you by me, All Romance eBooks, and caffeine. I’ll be convening the discussion at 10:00 pm EDT/7:00 pm PDT here at Smart Bitches in a live chat window. I’ll be asking questions, fielding comments, and hopefully we can all talk about the book live together - which is one part I’m terribly excited about. We’re discussing Tessa Dare’s One Dance with a Duke, and AllRomanceEbooks is still offering a 50% rebate on this book, so if you purchase it digitally through ARe, you get 50% as…
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May 25, 2010 | Tuesday | 81 Comments
This summer, if you’re looking for books to read, I have a whole lot of fun planned, and I hope you’ll join me. I’ve partnered with AllRomanceEbooks.com to do a Sizzling Summer Book Club of great romance reads, and I’m so excited I can barely sit still. In Yiddish, they call that “shpilkis.” Everyone wants a great summer read, and romance is perfect for summer reading - so why not a whole season of good books, right? Right. Here’s how the Summer Book Club will work: I’ll announce the selection, and folks will have plenty of time to buy and…
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March 15, 2010 | Monday | 8 Comments
First: so many people forwarded me the link to today’s XKCD, I can’t possibly thank them all, but they are ALL awesome. Porn for Women - and make sure you hold your mouse over the comic, too. Extra more win that way. If you want more laughter, here’s a link courtesy of Gail Dayton, who was pretty sure we’d written about were-duck-erotica before. Oh, yes, we did. it was a sad chapter in our history, when we were temporarily absorbed into the Dear Author Media Network. But we had nothing to do with the creation of this book, Duck Fart,…
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February 10, 2010 | Wednesday | 22 Comments
Over the weekend of Amazon vs. Macmillan: the Grudge Match, AllRomanceeBooks gave out a limited-time 50% off coupon, prompting many of us to go shopping (myself included) and all of us collectively to crash their poor servers. (My servers, I hear, are starting a support group to help their servers recover from the onslaught). While discussing the coupon and the sales options within OmniLit.com andAllRomanceeBooks, Lori James and I got into a discussion about metadata and why it’s important to readers and to booksellers. While much of this pertains to digital shopping, since so many of us shop online for…
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January 30, 2010 | Saturday | 64 Comments
Looking for an alternative to Amazon since Amazon has yanked Macmillan books due to price wars and the future of ebook prices with the announcement of the iPad after Macmillan signed with Apple to put its books in the ibookstore? AllRomanceeBooks.com and OmniLit.com have a special offer for you this weekend only. I kid you not: 50% off every title in the store this weekend only. NO REALLY. They may not have everything but boy howdy they’ve got a lot. Thank you, folks! Let’s go shopping, shall we? The rules: You will receive 50% off on all titles purchased on…
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