Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post!  There is news of the closure of the legal ebook lending site – LendInk due to pressure by authors who viewed it as a pirate site, Amazon’s rumoured new Kindles and textbooks retal as well cover reveals which features Patricia Briggs’ Frost Burned which was unveiled this week.

The major news that hit this week, was the closure and fallout over LendInk the legal site that lends Kindle and Nook ebooks to readers.  A few weeks ago on twitter a group of authors were frantically tweeting that this was a pirate site that was illegally lending their ebooks to readers which has closed the site due to the Cease & Desist letters and pressure from angry authors who assumed this was an illegal site. This led to the hosting site to close down LendInk  but the irony is that the author have themselves …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and we have a bumper edition full of books to movie adaptations and book news!

It seems Hollywood’s appetite book adaptations is not going to diminish,  Big Books, Tiny Voices have compiled a huge list of 60 YA books that has been picked up for movie options, which range from The Hobbit to the upcoming adaptation of Divergent. Whilst the majority of these options will be stuck in development hell and probably will never be made – already quite a few have gone in production, although there is a few books that I  don’t consider YA such as  the The Night Circus or A Discovery of Witches as YA .

There is also more adaptations in the offering, with the BBC  and BBC America will be co-producing a ten-part drama based on The Musketeers.  The ten part series will be set in the same period as Alexandre Dumas’ novel and will …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and we have news of publishers expanding in the small and big silver screen, Goodreads have changed their reviewing policies and much more.

Yesterday  I was alerted via several Goodreads friends  and  VacuousMinx that their reviews were hidden from public view because they mentioned authors or was shelved under ‘Do Not Read’ due to badly behaved authors. According to Goodreads they are implementing new rules and will release guidelines very soon on this new move. Whilst some reviews have disappeared for now because they are in the midst of incorporating this new rule of where a review can be flagged if its not on topic as a review because it is about notifying members that an author has behaved badly and is shelved under that heading instead of being a review. Friends  and followers of that reviewer can still be able to comment and …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this weeks news post and we have lots of news and updates, including a class action suite against Harlequin Enterprises, adaptations based on books from Diana Gabaldon and Gail Carriger and much more!

A group of authors are embarking on a lawsuit against Harlequin Enterprises (the company behind Harlequin books and others) due to royalty payments. They state that Harlequin has underpaid them in ebook royalties which date back from 1990 to 2004. Jane from Dear Author has a great summary on the legalese and outcome of the suit.

This actually took me by surprised when the news that ebooks overtook hardback titles for the first time. I suspected it would have been a few more years to go. However, print books still outsell ebooks when it is combined with the other formats such as trade or mass market. But the growth and popularity of ebooks  it seems isn’t …

Around the Bookish World: News-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post  and so much happened this week, I am having trouble keeping up with the events. There is book and author news galore, as well more dramallama over reviewers.

First up, I wasn’t sure whether to post this or not but since I wont be linking to the site another chapter in the saga of reviewers who are evil mean girls and poor authors who feel the need to combat this new nefarious underground group.   Earlier this week a site called Stop GR Bullies was launched, which is run by a group of anonymous authors who feel the need to out and identify reviewers (oh the irony!) who they deemed to be part of a mean girl group. This thread on Goodreads sums up with the screen caps with what they have stated which is pretty laughable on how they have twisted posts and …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and oh my there is a lot that is happening with leaks and rumours of more tablets coming out from Apple and Amazon, Piracy rulings and more updates and news on upcoming books!

There have been reports earlier this week reporting that both Apple and Amazon are gearing up for new tablets over the summer and fall. A report from Marketwatch states that Apple may launch an  8 inch screen tablet around October which incidentially is the rumoured date for the iphone 5. Although this isn’t confirmed but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case especially with the recent releases from Google and Amazon .

And Amazon has reportedly ordered two milling Kindles which will be available for pre-order sometime later this month or next. There is also another rumour that Amazon may be tackling Apple head on with their own Smartphone. …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and this week has is full of tidbits and updates from the world of publishing – with more news about Google’s new tablet device which was unveiled this week as well as books to look out for!

Last week I reported on Microsoft’s new tablet – the Surface, well hot on its heels Google has launched their own tablet called the Nexus 7  this week. And I have to say it looks mighty tempting especially with the specs which boasts of a fast processor and great graphics as well as top of the range screen at an attractive price of around $200. Google has already laid out its Play platform,  which hosts movies, music and apps and will also offer a cloud service to its users. For more info and detailed specs, check out the Nexus site here. It is also  rumoured that Amazon …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! With the news of Microsoft entering the tablet market and more book news and publishing development!

The biggest news this week was the announcement by Microsoft who launched their own tablet device called the Surface, which will be released with the upcoming Windows 8 OS. The Surface also comes with an attached light keyboard and stand and the specs are pretty impressive and it looks like its entry is going to make a splash in the crowded tablet and ultrabook market. For more information although details pretty sketchy in terms of price  click here.

Penguin has allowed their e-books for online digital library downloads for a pilot scheme in New York. It is only for two city branches and each ebook is licensed for only one year which will then have to be renewed for the following year. I really hope they expand this scheme because …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-review

Welcome to this week’s news post! We have news and updates from the world of publishing such as the news of fantasy author, Terry Goodkind self published book, Kobo’s Vox opening up to Google Play and shenanigans with name fakery.

It is no secret that self published books on the Kindle, Smashwords and other digital platforms, have brought some major successes however there have been some drawbacks like spammy scraped ebooks which Amazon have recently made some headway into clearing that up.  Nonetheless, this week, the curious case of a Nora A. Roberts who claims to be the best selling self published author on the Nook, but wait up this isn’t the popular mega-selling Nora Roberts behind the Chesapeake Bay Saga and the In Death series. This is an author who has added an initial to ride on the coattails of Nora Roberts so people may get confuse and mistakenly buy …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and it has been pretty eventful, with the sad passing of Ray Bradbury, more publishing news as well as new covers/books to watch out for!

The major news this week in the world of publishing was the sad passing of Sci Fi author Ray Bradbury, the author behind Fahrenheit 451 and other classics died earlier this week at the age of 91. Neil Gaiman has written a wonderful article on the life of the prolific and influential author. This year has been pretty bad with the passing of some great authors.

And in a way the news that Harper Collins is preparing to publish quite a few of his backlist books in ebook format over the coming months will be fitting. Although Bradbury was against publishing his books in e-book format but did allow some short stories and his classic Fahrenheit 541 to be allowed to be published, …