B&N Won’t Sell Amazon Published Books

According to the NY Times, Barnes and Noble has put their foot down when it comes to selling Amazon books in their brick and mortar stores.

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Kindle Launches New Easier Format for Authors

If you’ve been thinking about publishing an ebook, but have been intimidated by the formatting requirements for Kindle, you’re in luck.

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What’s in Store for Book Publishing in 2012?

According to Digital Book World, there will be lots of changes — more self-published best sellers; major restructures for large publishing houses; new larger tablet from Amazon and a new smaller, cheaper iPad from Apple.

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Self-Published Author’s Journey to a Best Seller

In today’s WSJ, author Darcie Chan shared the details of her journey to success. We all can learn from her experience. Read the entire article here.

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Major Publishers Jumping on the Self-Publishing Band Wagon

First we saw literary agencies adding self-publishing help to their menu of services, now traditional publishers are seeing the value of helping authors digitally publish their books for a fee and a cut of the sales revenue.

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New Book Review From London

I just received a wonderful review for “Husbands” from across the pond.

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New IPad App for Social Reading

According to Galley Cat, Subtext is a new app that lets readers have Facebook-style discussions around books purchased from Google’s eBookstore.

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What if Readers Could Ask Authors Questions From Their Kindle?

That’s what Amazon proposed last Wednesday with its new @ author feature which is in beta release. Imagine as an author, receiving a question via Twitter from a person reading your book at that moment.

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News Flash! Amazon Drops Kindle Price to $79

Today, Amazon dropped the price of the basic Kindle to $79, and introduced three new Kindles.

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Major NY Literary Agency Launches E-Book Operation

With the surge in e-book sales, agents are all trying to get into the act.

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