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: Macmillan
April 20, 2011 | Wednesday | 43 Comments
I had a feeling this would come eventually: Amazon announces library lending for the Kindle. Over 11,000 libraries are going to be linked to the Kindle universe “later this year” and according to the press release: Customers will be able to check out a Kindle book from their local library and start reading on any Kindle device or free Kindle app for Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone. If a Kindle book is checked out again or that book is purchased from Amazon, all of a customer’s annotations and bookmarks will be preserved. “We’re doing…
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February 15, 2011 | Tuesday | 5 Comments
A few links of info while I’m at Tools of Change. First: Macmillan has launched a new community for romance readers at Heroes & Heartbreakers. There’s a lot of familiar names among the writers, which is awesome. Good luck, y’all! Second: Thanks to Caridad Ferrer for the heads up about this article, which made me most happy. Advertising Age takes a look at romance as a genre, and its continued success in Romance Novels Still Get Love Thanks to Cheap Prices, Loyalty. Romance isn’t just “recession proof” as so many articles have said - it’s forward thinking and the connection…
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January 26, 2011 | Wednesday | 34 Comments
Day one of the Digital Book World conference was a mix of panels that were so great with the amazing awesome brilliance of the panelists the top of my head nearly blew off, and panels that were so infuriating the top of my head nearly blew off. Let’s start with the CEO panel, since that was in the morning. Brian Napack, President of Macmillan, Jane Friedman, CEO of Open Road Integrated Media, David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus, and Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson, were joined by David Nussbam, CEO of F+W Media, to talk around and about digital book…
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October 12, 2010 | Tuesday | 58 Comments
I write this with dismay, honestly. Despite some major faults, the Kindle does digital book reading, loading, and buying so well, and works so well for me, I’m using the Kindle. Not even the Sony Mercedes ebook reader could lure me away. Every time I sit down at my computer, I find out about a new way to read, load or access books on the Kindle. I can sync books purchased at Amazon across six devices at this point, and I can email files to my device anywhere. Because of the way I interact with books (lots of them, in…
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February 01, 2010 | Monday | 78 Comments
After a full weekend of ZOMG on Twitter about the Macmillan/Amazon showdown, where Amazon did the hokey pokey with the buy links for Macmillan authors, I was having a hard time articulating why this didn’t send me into rage and ire. I’m horrified for authors whose books are no longer on sale from what I’m told is the largest independent bookseller in the US, and I’m sorry that people looking for books from Macmillan authors on Kindle will not find them and likely move onto something else. But I’m not angry at one party over another. Mostly I want to…
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October 29, 2009 | Thursday | 59 Comments
In the 14 October 2009 New York Times article Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending, which looked at library patrons looking to borrow digital books, Macmillan CEO John Sargent made the following statements: “I don’t have to get in my car, go to the library, look at the book, check it out,” said John Sargent, chief executive of Macmillan, which publishes authors like Janet Evanovich, Augusten Burroughs and Jeffrey Eugenides. “Instead, I’m sitting in the comfort of my living room and can say, ‘Oh, that looks interesting’ and download it.” As digital collections grow, Mr. Sargent said he feared…
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