Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

USA Today reports that its bestselling list will begin to feature ebooks this week and notes that since the holidays which many people have been gifted with an ereader for Christmas. That the top six books on the list, the ebook versions outsold their print counterparts while in the top 50, nineteen books sold more ebooks than print. Whether this trend will grow or remain static remains to be seen but it does lead credence that Ebooks are becoming the new Mass Market as the print sales for that format has fallen in recent months.

A few weeks ago an author claimed and wrote a book that there was a way to manipulate Amazon Kindle charts, however this would involve buying your own book everyday as well as posting reviews and voting for them. I personally didn’t think it …

Dual Review: Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Author: Leanna Renee Hieber (sorry, didn’t fit in the title O_o)Format Read: Paperback received from teh author for reviewNumber of Pages: 320Release Date: May 27, 2010Publisher: Leisure BooksFormats Available: Paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Goodreads

Book Blurb:

With radiant, snow white skin and hair, Percy Parker was a beacon for Fate. True love had found her, in the tempestuous form of Professor Alexi Rychman. But her mythic destiny was not complete. Accompanying the ghosts with which she alone could converse, new and terrifying omens loomed. A war was coming, a desperate ploy of a spectral host. Victorian London would be overrun. Yet, Percy kept faith. Within the mighty bastion of Athens Academy, alongside The Guard whose magic shielded mortals from the agents of the Underworld, she counted herself among …

Dual Review: Strangely Beautiful #1 by Leanna R. Hieber

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 pagesRelease Date: August 25th 2009Publisher: Leisure BooksFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, AmazonNote:  The title  is The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker. We had to shorten it to make it fit, sorry about that 😉

Book Blurb:

What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadows, of the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She saw simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gift. This arched …