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dale-estey's picture
Mar.18.2010
But can I prove it's a book without its book plate? Death of the Bookplate?By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Forget the death of the book. It turns out we have an even bigger problem: the death of the bookplate. Alex Beam, writing in the Yale alumni magazine, flips through some gorgeous samples from the...
pati-nagle's picture
Mar.15.2010
Book View Café authors will chat about their new fantasy ebook anthology, Dragon Lords and Warrior Women, tomorrow evening from 8-11 pm EDT. My story "Kind Hunter" is in this anthology, along with works from Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Sherwood Smith, and more.   Come on by and...
christopher-meeks's picture
Mar.13.2010
Lately, there has been much discussion of publishing in terms of printing vs. digitizing-- books vs. ebooks--and the news swirls in a faster spinning vortex. With the iPad about to debut, there's much speculation on will ebooks become more popular than they are now? "Yes" is the answer...
cat-connor's picture
Mar.11.2010
Then it's time you read TERRORBYTE! Book trailer, free PDF sample chapter and all relevant links can be found through this link!  http://catconnor.wordpress.com/about/terrorbyte/   According to the reviews:   Bookwenches said "This is one of the best suspense novels that I have read in a...
simon-wood's picture
Mar.07.2010
READ AN EBOOK WEEK promotion starts today (running from March 7-13).  Two of my titles (Dragged into Darkness and Working Stiffs) are are 50% off and all my former Writer's Digest articles are free during the promotion.  Just use coupon code RAE50 at checkout time. http://www.smashwords.com/...
dale-estey's picture
Mar.06.2010
Don't sweat the eBooks. Don't worry about Kindle. Don't fear the dissemination of your work across the treeless acres of Cyberland. Until you decide its fate, you own it. You control it. You put it into motion to take over the world. And all ships at sea. And all starcraft across the light years of...
rosemary-jones's picture
Mar.06.2010
Thanks to Elaine Cunningham, a fellow fantasy writer, I found Craig Mod's fascinating essay on why the printed book will become better with the advent of ebooks. Mod argues, and I agree, that the ebook will replace the disposable book. The paperback that we buy once to read on the trip or at the...
pati-nagle's picture
Feb.12.2010
On Friday, February 12, Patricia Rice joins the Book View Café team. With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today’s bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA Patricia Rice is one of romance’s hottest authors. Her emotionally-charged contemporary and historical romances...
james-hoch's picture
Feb.10.2010
This morning the msn web site posted a story about Anne Rice releasing a new vampire novel as a video book.  Hunh?  What's a video book?  I googled the word and the surprising thing I discovered is that there was very little information about the subject.  I did find two sites that discussed the...
donna-ballman's picture
Feb.03.2010
Where the law and literature meet: After pulling Macmillan’s books, Amazon appears to have capitulated in e-book price battle: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2MEGQWTNGIMHV&displayType=tagsDetail and http...