Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Chutzpah
June 07, 2011 | Tuesday | 89 Comments
Alert reader Jennifer sent me the following message: “Searching for a good (kindle) historical mystery for myself, I noticed that someone slapped Richard Armitage on the cover of their book: It’s flipped & Photoshopped, but it definitely looks like his head shot (via RichardArmitageNet.com). I’m all for seeing Richard everywhere, but somehow I don’t think this is authorized usage—- couldn’t they afford some stock photography to use? Arrgh. (sending it your way since this site discusses book covers and Richard Armitage is one of the patron saint hotties of romance).” HUH. That’s a new one - self published book sales…
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August 21, 2009 | Friday | 36 Comments
There’s a great deal of “If you liked…” recommendations for romance readers. And most of the time those recommendations are much appreciated - especially when they come from the online community, which is hellaciously well-read. But thanks to Amazon, we have a new category: If You Didn’t Like This, How About Plagiarism Instead? Leslie Kelly noticed that because her book Slow Hands is one of the free Harlequins being offered as part of their 60th Anniversary, it is frequently in the top ten downloads for Kindle. Nice, right? Well, not entirely. There’s one review that lists an alternate title that’s…
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July 28, 2009 | Tuesday | 19 Comments
Thanks to Lee for the heads up: Barnes and Noble invites you to download their Free ereader software to your iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry, PC or Mac (thanks for the compatibility, folks) - and as a bonus you get six free books. Which books? Oh, hold on to your library card, because wowser. You get: The Last of the Mohicans Sense and Sensibility Little Women Dracula Pride and Prejudice “plus a handy pocket dictionary,” which, gee. Thanks. So I get a dictionary and six “free books” that are free anyway. Are you kidding me? Yo! Curious ebook readers! There are…
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