Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Publishers
December 10, 2011 | Saturday | 13 Comments
There's a lot going on here there and everywhere. The winner of the Bad Sex award has been announced. The winner was David Guterson for "Ed King," a retelling of Oedipus. The winning, ahem, passage: "In the shower, Ed stood with his hands at the back of his head, like someone just arrested, while she abused him with a bar of soap. After a while he shut his eyes, and Diane, wielding her fingernails now and staring at his face, helped him out with two practiced hands, one squeezing the family jewels, the other vigorous with the soap-and-warm-water treatment. It didn't…
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November 23, 2011 | Wednesday | 29 Comments
First up: per Publisher's Lunch, Overdrive announced on their blog yesterday: "‘Get for Kindle’ for all Penguin eBooks in your catalog has been restored as of this morning. Penguin titles are available for check out by Kindle users and the Kindle format will be available for patrons who are currently on a waiting list for a Penguin title. This does not affect new releases, which remain unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience this caused for your library and patrons. At this time, no further information is available. We hope to share more details in the near future." So Kindle lending…
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October 29, 2011 | Saturday | 1 Comments
Thanks and mad props to the October advertisers! These are the lovely folks whose support helps underwrite hosting, posting, and all the merriment here, and without them there wouldn’t be as much Bitchery to go around
Thanks for advertising with us, and thank you to everyone who has clicked on an ad and taken a closer look at a book. You’re helping support advertisers who want to reach romance readers directly, and that’s excellent.
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September 24, 2011 | Saturday | 2 Comments
It’s time to thank the September advertisers - thank you! Muchas gracias! Toda rabbi! These are the lovely folks who fund hosting, posting, and general shenanigans, and without them, the site wouldn’t be as funky and definitely not as hot pink.
Thank you for advertising with us, and thank you to everyone who has clicked on the ads, because you’re supporting advertisers who want to reach romance readers directly.
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August 31, 2011 | Wednesday | 3 Comments
Time to thank the August advertisers - thank you! These are the awesome folks who fund my Epic Postage Budget, hosting fees and various other projects. Without them, this site wouldn’t be as hot pink. I’ve also received email from people asking me to look up an advertisement from a previous month so they could buy the book they saw featured, so here are the advertisers in convenient entry format.
Thank you for advertising with us, and for everyone who has taken a look at the ads, thank you for supporting folks who want to reach romance readers directly!
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July 30, 2011 | Saturday | 4 Comments
Time to thank the July advertisers - thank you! These are the awesome folks who fund my Epic Postage Budget, hosting fees and various other projects. Without them, this site wouldn’t be as hot pink. I’ve also received email from people asking me to look up an advertisement from a previous month so they could buy the book they saw featured, so here are the advertisers in convenient entry format.
Thank you for advertising with us, and for everyone who has taken a look at the ads, thank you for supporting folks who want to reach romance readers directly!
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May 26, 2011 | Thursday | 16 Comments
Want some stuff to read? The internet is happy to oblige. First: Kobo has announced their Read On initiative, focusing on getting one trillion minutes read on Kobo devices and apps. From their site: Sign up, and tell us the school or community organization you would like to support. For every 10 million-minutes read on Kobo, we will make a contribution of eReading valued between $1,000 and $20,000 to a school or organization in your community. I think this is spiffy. And it makes me curious how many minutes I actually do read! Second: librarians at BEA discussed the impact…
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May 23, 2011 | Monday | 7 Comments
Time again to thank this month’s advertisers, who fund my Epic Postage Budget, hosting fees and various other projects. Without them, this site wouldn’t be as hot pink. I’ve also received email from people asking me to look up an advertisement from a previous month so they could buy the book they saw featured, so here are the advertisers in convenient entry format.
Thank you for advertising with us, and thank you for supporting our advertisers!
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April 23, 2011 | Saturday | 27 Comments
Please note: there is not a single royal wedding-type link in here. Fear not. Author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes that she found major discrepancies in the ebook sales reported in her royalty statements and is calling for writers to check their royalty statement ebook sales figures against any self-published works or against Bookscan, and to alert writers organizations to demand audits of publishing houses whose royalty statements are inconsistent. ...traditional publishers are not indulging in a criminal act. They’re doing the best they can out of necessity. They see no reason to spend precious dollars revamping their accounting systems to…
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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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April 19, 2011 | Tuesday | 99 Comments
I was contacted over the weekend by a reader from Ireland who was irate about the quality of a book she’d purchased from Amazon for her Kindle. She was horrified to discover that a book which had received many five star reviews, Lora Leigh’s Navarro’s Promise, was full of typos, subject/verb disagreements, errors, and what appeared to this reader to be scenes missing from the story altogether. I have just finished a book (part of a long series) by an author, published by a big publishing house and was struck by ongoing editing issues, storyline inconsistencies, general WTFery, and a…
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February 28, 2011 | Monday | 4 Comments
Yet again this past month I received an email from a reader looking for a past advertisement, wanting to find a book she’d seen here but couldn’t recall. So, for your shopping and memory-nudging usage, here are the February advertisers, all lined up looking stunning. You can find past months of advertisers in the advertiser tag, a link to which is always under the ad column. Thanks for advertising here, y’all, and helping me keep the site floating on postage, hosting, and crazy mayhem, with occasional breaks for cookies. There are not terribly many places where romance publishers and authors…
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February 24, 2011 | Thursday | 43 Comments
One of the sessions I attended at Tools of Change was from BeneTech, which works to make books accessible to those with significant physical obstacles to reading, such as visual impairment or learning disability. Listening to that presentation, I tweeted some of it and heard back from a reader named Sassy Outwater, who agreed with some of the points and offered to school me on what blind readers need and have to facilitate their own reading enjoyment. I know absolutely squatnada about blind readers. And so I asked a bunch of really ignorant and obvious questions, and Sassy was kind…
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February 18, 2011 | Friday | 30 Comments
The highlights of the first day of ToC included Margaret Atwood, Indie booksellers speaking confidently and knowledgeably about building community, and two days of hot lunch. I love hot lunches like you have no idea. The opening keynotes of ToC were rather awesome, mostly. First was Theodore Gray, who discussed the creation of his periodic table table, and the book and then the iPad app that were inspired by his strange collection. The ipad app is jaw dropping - then comes the Outer Space one, and I about leapt off my chair to go home and get my iPad so…
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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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