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: News Corp, HarperCollins Complete Purchase of Harlequin. Harlequin will operate as a subsidiary of… Read more »
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News and Notes – 5/17/14
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: Castulul Bran, Brasov, Romania. (Photo by Florin73m; used under CC-SA 3.0 license) Dracula’s castle… Read more »

News & Notes – 4/26/14
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: Poe statue to be unveiled in Boston in October (Boston Magazine) Apple trial remains… Read more »

News & Notes – 4/19/14
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: The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is… Read more »

News & Notes – 4/05/14
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: Liberty Media sells of most of its Barnes & Noble stocks, reducing its ownership… Read more »

News & Notes – 3/22/14
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: The Independent will no longer review gender-specific children’s books, which it claims (with justification)… Read more »

News & Notes – 3/01/14
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: The Washington Post is adding monthly book review columns for romance and SFF! Sarah… Read more »

News & Notes – 2/15/14
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: “Winter Weather Disrupts Book Sales” (Publishers Weekly). No surprise there! Apple’s appeal rejected by… Read more »

New & Notes – 2/08/14
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: Ms. Rowling… You’re kidding, right? J. K. Rowling regrets pairing Hermione and Ron. The… Read more »

Sony closes its Reader Store
Yesterday, I got an email from Sony informing me that they are closing their Reader Store as of March 20th. The Reader Store is Sony’s ebook retail store, and sells ePub books to customers with any ePub device, not just Sony Reader owners. The closure affects the US and Canadian… Read more »






































