Seraphina Series: Seraphina #1 on July 2012 Pages: 499 Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop Add to Goodreads Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational,… Read more »
This is Tolkien Week, and Tolkien enthusiasts will have several reasons to celebrate! First, the new (next) trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. ET. I’m hoping for some new footage that we haven’t seen yet! Next, September 21 marks… Read more »
I apologize for missing last week’s article roundup. It’s been another very busy two weeks, complicated by problems with my computer which kept me off it for days. So here are some of the last two weeks’ articles of interest:E0book Pricing Settlements: The biggest book-related news of this two weeks… Read more »
Kobo has joined the big players in more ways than one. In addition to being (apparently) the third main competitor to Amazon in ebook sales (behind Barnes & Noble and Apple), Kobo will now offer a whole family of e-reader devices, according to a September 6 announcement.Kobo already had an… Read more »
On the ebook piracy front: Earlier this summer, NYT commentator David Pogue tried to buy The Bourne Identity in ebook form so his son could read it at summer camp. But Ludlum’s books aren’t commercially available as ebooks, due to a dispute over royalty rates between Ludlum’s estate and his… Read more »
As I mentioned back in this post in July, we spent several weeks this summer in Banff and Jasper National Parks in the Canadian Rockies. It was an amazing, wonderful trip, thanks in part to the several travel and trail guides we used both to plan the trip and… Read more »
Return To Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs Series: Lakeshore Chronicles #9 Published by Harlequin MIRA Genres: Contemporary Romance Format: eARC Source: the publisher through NetGalley Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Starlight on Willow Lake Also by this author: The Apple Orchard, The Beekeeper’s Ball, Starlight on Willow Lake,… Read more »
If you’ve been following the official Hobbit blog, you already know that the producers have decided to make the movie in three parts, rather than two. Peter Jackson announced the change in plan on July 30. After the initial shrieks of protest from several members of our household (mainly my… Read more »
Well, once again (for reasons having to do with a much-too-long to-do list), I’m collecting two weeks of articles in one week.This week, Kobo and the ABA announced a new partnership to give independent bookstores a shot at the ebook market. ABA members will be able to sell Kobo ereaders… Read more »
Photo by Gregory H. Revera, from Wikimedia. Used under CC license. If there’s anything you’ve been putting off, or something you only do once in a blue moon, today is your chance. Tonight is the second full moon within this calendar month, making it a blue moon by the modern… Read more »
