Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! This week we have more news and development from Kobo, Authors hiding their real gender and covers galore!

A Japanese company called Rakuten, has purchased the Canadian based Indigo’s Kobo in a deal worth $315 million. Rakuten is behind a few e-ventures and companies,including an ebook store and it looks like buying into Kobo is a way to shore up and expand more into ebooks and publishing. It also looks like with a huge backing from Rakuten, Kobo will be able to expand and compete more fully with other ebook devices like the Kindle.

Another case of plagiarism has reared its ugly head. Thriller writer, QR Markham, was caught plagiarising from a variety of novels including the James Bond series, with his new book Assassin of Secrets. The book has been removed …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! I hope everyone had a great Halloween! This week brings news major developments with Amazon announcing a lending library to Prime customers and leaked details of the upcoming Nook Tablet as well as upcoming books/covers and tidbits in the world of books!

The news that has made waves over the past few days is the announcement from Amazon about a lending library which will consist currently of 5000 books, some by bestselling popular authors to Prime customers. The lending is restricted to the hard devices like the Kindle and customers wont be to use this feature with desktop or phone apps and that only one book may be borrowed a month at a time. I think this is pretty savvy of Amazon and I suspect it is to help take away the wind off …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and we have some goodies with upcoming clips and teaser posters from Breaking Dawn and The Hunger Games. There is also some interesting developments with Kobo who is entering the realm of publishing – they are definitely notching several arrows to compete with Amazon lately.

But first up, Kobo has announced they will be moving into publishing, it is not clear if it is just offering authors a way to self publish their work, but according to this news article it seems they will be looking into editing books and distributing them via their site. I think this is a pretty savvy move on their part.

I posted news that there was a delay that Amazon’s aquisition of The Book Depository has been delayed, well it looks like it has gotten the …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and it has been pretty eventful with the sad passing of Steve Jobs from Apple, Google opening up their book store in the UK and more YA adaptions to come.

However the big news leading this week is the death of Steve Jobs who was a influential and innovative figure in the world of computing and media. He stepped down as CEO of Apple a few weeks ago and has been battling Pancreatic Cancer for the past few years. His death will be a huge loss to the industry that he was part of.

Google has launched its ebook store in the UK. Google has also announced that it is planing on launching Canadian and Australian sites very soon and Europe to closely to follow. They claim they have hundreds of thousands of books …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

This week’s news post is going to be mainly dedicated to the huge announcement by Amazon this week with their new Kindle devices and the long rumoured new tablet, although we also have new covers and book news too!

My twitter feed was alight on Wednesday during Amazon’s news conference about their new devices and tablet and I have to say that the new Kindles look really pretty and Kindle Fire tablet is a great entry to the market.
Amazon unveiled three devices –

The first one was the Kindle Basic Wifi which costs $109 without the special ads and $79 with the ads screensavers. Although it has a smaller memory compared to the Keyboard Kindle (renamed Kindle 3) and battery – it is much lighter and and smaller compared to the Keyboard Kindle. For more …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post – we have covers galore and news about Amazon’s long awaited library lending programme.

The major news this week is that of Amazon’s library lending has been launched finally this week and is out of Beta. More than 11 thousand libraries will be able to offer library books and Kindle features such as margin notes and bookmarks will be available. To find out more info and what libraries are involved click here. Note it is only US libraries right now that offer this service at the moment.

Amazon has also did a bit of a facelift at their site – making it more streamlined and tablet friendly. This is probably in preparation for their upcoming release of the Kindle Tablet. 

The Guardian has listed the top 100 people influential in publishing today. It …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post – it pretty jam packed this week , so chill out with a nice cuppa and enjoy because we have the new trailer for Breaking Dawn and some fun stuff in the world of publishing!

If anyone is stalling in getting an ereader, I think now is the time. According to reports, ereaders have jumped to 167% with suggestions that this holiday season some will be priced around $100 or so. I think this may be the case with Amazon launching its tablet soon and may cut their black and white ereaders further.

The Guardian has announced their National Book Swap, which is an initiative where people can place books around the country in public places for others to pick up and enjoy. People can print up a sticker or collect one from this …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post – This week we have some sad news regarding the founder of Project Gutenburg and posters galore from long awaited movies adapted from popular books.

News broke this week that the founde, Michael Hart of Project Gutenburg, which focuses on publishing and distributing public domain books passed away on the 6th of September. He was an innovative and pioneering individual of digital books, and was influential in shaping digital publishing and he was dedicated in offering geo restricted ebooks to anyone with a real love of books – everyone at Book Lovers Inc pass on our condolences to his family and friends.
An interesting development for those who live in the UK! Waterstones has announced they have plans to produce a dedicated reader ala the Nook, and will be aiming as the main …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and gosh cannot believe it is September! This year has FLOWN past – in this week’s edition we haz news on the upcoming Amazon Tablets, and if you are a fan of Stephen King, you will be pretty please with an upcoming adaptation of a book.

First up! Waterstone is ending its 3 for 2 deals by the end of this month, this has been a major selling approach for the past ten years but it seems that the new owner of the flailing brand wants to rehaul its marketing approach. Instead, staggered prices of £3, £5 and £7 of selected books will take its place.

An interesting development has emerged for Amazon’s takeover for The Book Depository, The quango that is in charge of mergers, The OFT (Office of Fair Trading) …

Review: Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne

Format Read: ebookNumber of Pages: 247Release Date: August 2, 2011Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLCFormats Available: Paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Diesel ebook store, Books On Board, Goodreads, Author’s website

Book Blurb: 

Aries has lived her entire life aboard mankind’s last hope, the New Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew-a planet that won’t be reached in Aries’ lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage.But Aries has other plans.When her desperate escape from the New Dawn strands her on a desert planet, Aries discovers the rumors about pirates-humans who escaped Earth before its demise-are true. Handsome, genetically imperfect Striker possesses the freedom Aries envies, and the two connect on a level …