Aud in Kindle for UK?
From: Susan Robinson I have just come across your Aud books via Stay, borrowed from my local library. Once I realised it…
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Waterstones showrooming for Amazon
A few months ago I talked about the notion of showrooming, in which customers walk into a bricks-and-mortar retailer establishment, play with/read the…
Read moreAcquisitions list
This 15-inch high chunk of elephant just sold for $8,547,979. It’s 750 years old, give or take. I wish I had a…
Read moreFiguring it out
Continuing yesterday’s saga* about turning the manuscript of my latest novel into an ereader-ready file for advance readers… I was having a…
Read moreHow to turn your Word document into a Kindle-ready file
My current project is Hild, a massive novel set in the seventh century. For the convenience of advance readers (editors, agent, publicists…
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I am currently having fun trying to turn my Hild ms. into something pretty which early readers can read on their Kindle….
Read moreeReaders: 12% of us have one
Good news from Pew Research Center‘s survey (run from April 26 to May 22 among 2,277 adults, margin of error = +/-…
Read moreEbook pricing
Two different publishers lost sales to me last night because of price. I had happily read on my Kindle long and juicy…
Read moreGo listen: a good primer on current change in publishing
I don’t listen to podcasts much because almost everything I do is writing- or reading-related and listening interferes with that. But yesterday,…
Read moreUpdating science fiction for republication
I read something over at Dear Author that got me thinking: I was reading the Jennifer Greene books which are being re-released…
Read moreMy iThing rocks the thunderdome
On Thursday, I got an iPod Touch 64 GB. I didn’t have much time on Friday to play with it but yesterday,…
Read moreBooks are journeys
I love books. I love my Kindle–I’ve read more novels per month in the last two years than I did before I…
Read moreiPad guided tours–check out iBooks
Some links relating to Apple’s book plans. Start with this nifty wee guided tour of iBooks (you’ll have to pick iBooks out…
Read moreBook Industry Study Group e-book survey
There’s a new study out in publishing town, the BISG survey on e-book consumerism. (Via Richard Curtis.) New York, NY (January 15,…
Read moreWolf Hall wins the Booker
Hilary Mantel wins the Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, a novel about Thomas Cromwell. It’s a long meaty historical, apparently; the first…
Read morerecently read: The Strain
About a month ago I downloaded to my Kindle the sample chapter of The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan….
Read moreiPhone is a Kindle killer?
Ann Kirschner, university dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York and the author of Sala’s…
Read moreholiday weekend
This is going to be long, luscious holiday weekend. The weather is perfect. I’m going to go outside and stay there for…
Read moreI’m sad…
…that there are, as yet, no reader reviews of this blog up at the Kindle blog page. Sigh. Don’t you like the…
Read morethis blog now available on Kindle
Want to read this blog every day on your Kindle? The whole thing, with no ads? Cool! Go here and sign up….
Read moreblessings rain upon our heads
This week has been a series of gifts. I got a wholly unexpected royalty cheque. We got some good news on another…
Read morejust read: Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
One day last week, when I was very tired, I downloaded onto my Kindle what I thought would be a quick read:…
Read moreread this blog on your Kindle!
Want to read this blog on your Kindle? Sign up with kindlefeeder.com: kindlefeeder.com is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets…
Read moreI love toys!
I just got one of these: And it’s *nifty*. I’ve downloaded the latest Dick Francis novel out of thin air. I’ve uploaded…
Read moreplastic logic
Now this looks more like it. (The article is somewhat oddly and sketchily written but it has an image gallery that’s worth…
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Nicola Griffith 