News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The National Book Award Finalists (shortlist) were announced this week. The winners will be announced on Nov. 16, 2016. (National Book Foundation) Iranian judges… Read more »
Last fall, I talked about the cost-per-entertainment-hour for books, and how most of us probably use some strategies for keeping our overall book spending within limits, whether we do it consciously or not. Today, I’m going to talk about some of the strategies you can use to stay within… Read more »
When I first started the whole ebook thing, I went a little crazy with the self-published freebies, including a lot I’m probably never going to read (and really ought to purge!) I also discovered at least one author I really like, as well as several more that I will never… Read more »
I’ve signed up for the Clean out your E-reader Challenge hosted by Fantasy is More Fun and Because Reading is more fun. The focus of the challenge is ebook freebies, whether downloaded from a retailer like Amazon or received for review through NetGalley or Edelweiss. Pirated copies don’t count and… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial” and Publishers Weekly‘s Andrew Albanese summarizes both… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Giuseppe Leto Barone. Used under Creative Commons licence (CC BY-ND 2.0) “Why Amazon Supports… Read more »
Worth Reading: “Why does Magic Need So Many Rules?” Fantasy author N. K. Jemison (The Killing Moon) explores whether magic in fantasy really needs to make sense, have a price, and conform to an internally logical system. (io9) “Five reasons why stats don’t matter and you shouldn’t care” (Cuddlebuggery blog) … Read more »
Free YA ebook! Tera Lyn Childs’ Sweet Venom is available free in the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony stores. (If you have another ePub reader, you can purchase books at Kobo or Sony, or check your favorite ePub retailer.) The sequel, Sweet Shadows, just came out this month. Giveaways on… Read more »
While researching for my previous post (“To e-book or not to e-book?”), I came across a brilliant letter/essay by science fiction and fantasy author Eric Flint. The letter was written in 2000, and serves as an introduction to the Baen Free Library. That’s right, free. A conversation between Flint and… Read more »
