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Filed in News , The Smutty Lover Posted on August 6, 2010 @ 2:00 pm
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A New Jersey library removes all copies of Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology. Despite the fact there was no good reason why this happened the the library director used child porn as an excuse. The ACLU have found out that a rightwing conservative group contacted the Library director to remove all copies even though there was no formal challenge was filed to the library. The matter is now being investigated by the ACLU.
Colleen Gleason has announced a new vampire series which is not related to her Gardella Vampire Chronicals. The new series will start in 2011 and will feature the Draculia.
“In 2011 readers will meet a whole new world of vampires who mingle with the haute ton in 19th century London. Called the Draculia, these vampires are strong and sexy, and a match for any mortal…except for the women who love them.”
While preparing their digital archive of books Google has counted that there is 129,864,880 books in the world. They also stated that-
“We collect metadata from many providers (more than 150 and counting) that include libraries, WorldCat, national union catalogs and commercial providers. At the moment we have close to a billion unique raw records … Counting only things that are printed and bound, we arrive at about 146 million. This is our best answer today. It will change as we get more data and become more adept at interpreting what we already have.”
In response to this week’s decision to overthrow Prop 8 legislation (WOOOOT), Jacket Copy has compiled a list of 20 classic gay themed books. The entire list which includes Brokeback Mountain be found here.
The Kindle store has opened in the UK, I have browsed briefly through the collection and it has been interesting to note there is definitely cheaper books compared to other online stores and that is including the US Kindle store. Another great feature that books that don’t have currently geo access in the UK – amazon have a notification button to let publishers to request permission which is fantastic. I hope they do take this account!
Breaking news– this morning on twitter there was rumors that Dorchester has dropped the Mass Market model and is going to digital ebooks and print on demand which will then be published in 6/8 months later in tradeback that will be priced around 12/15 dollars. This was later confirmed by Publisher Weekly and this new model will affect the September releases and onwards.
And finally-
Well most people chuck a book across the room if they really hate it hence the name wallbanger but this guy takes it to extremes with an AK47
What do you think of the new changes in Dorchester? Do you think it is the right approach or do you think it is a mistake?
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As someone who likes both ebooks and trade paperbacks….I do like the idea of getting rid of the mass market model (and hardbacks, could we get rid of those too?).
But in practice I'm not so sure how this would work out. I (and my book loving friends) are browsers. We spend hours in a bookstore (Powells) meandering through shelf after shelf until finding whatever arbitrary number of books we've limited ourselves to……POD doesn't seem conducive to browsing. Or helpful to new authors who won't have a built-in following demanding paper books.
I think Dorchester wants to survive, that's what I think. The traditional publishing model is changing rapidly, far too rapidly for some pubs to keep up and remain solvent.
It's kind of out in the open now that Dorchester isn't doing so great financially (the whole shebang with RWA and not fulfilling contractual obligations meant something definitely had to be done) so I hope that the shift in focus helps them regain some stability and move forward. I'm a recent convert to the lovely world of ebooks so I think the possibility for them to turn things around is definitely there and this may be a big opportunity for them if it's handled properly.
I want my books cheap so I need those, who cares about hardback and trade. Oh and nooo at e-books since it takes me month to read on and then I do skim it anyway
I have a few authors that will be affected by this. Does this mean that the books won't be mm size anymore? I hate having to change forms in the middle of a series. I am always hesitant to buy if the book is not in the same format or size of print book that I have the rest in.
I do like that this will keep the books from being too expensive(hopefully).
As a booklover I hate the idea of a world without paper books but from a business standpoint I can sort of understand Dorchester's move. Technology will push e-book production to greater levels and I guess they don't want to operate under a losing model. Who knows?
Personally, I don't care because I much prefer ebooks to hard copy books. I do find it interesting, though, that all of the big publishers are claiming that they can't make money selling ebooks, yet Dorchester is ditching the rest of their business and going exclusively to ebook.
Was just telling my mom about this and we realized something. What about those people(like my mom)who don't do ebooks? Mom mostly reads during her lunch hour or in bed at night and is not very good with computers(or any other electronic stuff for that matter)and with the arthritis it's hard for her to hold the larger books like hardcover and trade size.
I've also heard that Dorchester didn't warn their authors before this public announcement. Not good PR.
I really feel for the authors at Dorchester- it feels all of sudden and out of the blue. For them to take the e-publishing route they would have to prepare and their site is alot to be desired.
Dear Author has posted a followup –
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010/08/09/dorchester-update/