Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post. It has been an eventful one with the long anticipated release of J.K Rowling’s first adult book although its critical response and the ebook edition were not positive.  Barnes and Noble have released the details of their new tablets as well as a content platform and our usual books to watch out for and news.

Barnes and Noble have released the details of their new Nook tablets. There will be two tablets – a 7 inch edition (Nook HD $199)   and a 9 inch edition (Nook HD+ $269), although their specs doesn’t vary much away from the recently launched Kindle Fire or the Google Nexus.  The Digital reader has a full and in-depth coverage of the devices at their site. The Nook tablets will also have their own content platform but unlike Apple, Google and Amazon who has a much better library of …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post, and we have more news of Agency pricing settlements but in the EU territories, more book news and covers to watch out for!

The major news in the world of publishing and books, is the ongoing saga of the Agency pricing, like their US counterparts, the EU has reached an agreement with four of the big 6 Publishers. Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan as well as  Apple will drop the Agency agreement and will allow discounts and special offers and credit points from online vendors. At the moment, the settlement is open to comments and a public consultation over the terms which slightly differs from the US over the aggregate amount of discounts allowed. There is also no mention or an agreement of customers offered a compensation such as in the US.   For more details over the settlement, click here.

The spate …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! We have news that the first publisher to remove Agency pricing is HarperCollins’ price drop, more YA adaptations and movie news as well as our usual covers and books to watch out for!

HarperCollins has dropped Agency pricing and will be allowing discounts and other associated special offers with retailers this week, they are the first publisher to undergo this and I suspect that Hachette and Simon and Schuster will follow suit soon since they have also settled with the DOJ. Macmillan, Penguin and Apple who have refused to settle will be heading for trial sometime next year to challenge this ruling.

And talking about HarperCollins – one of their imprints, Harper Voyager which releases SF and Fantasy titles, are looking for open and unagented manuscript submissions for a two week period. In the weeks between the 1st and the 14th of October, they will …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! And it has been very eventful with Amazon’s announcements on their new Kindle and tablet releases, and they weren’t the only ones with Kobo releasing information on their new devices too.  Along with the  DOJ has finally confirmed their settlement with four of the Big Publishers as well as our usual covers/books to look out for – I think its time to get that cuppa and  a plate of cookies to sit back and catch up!

Amazon unveiled their new Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, which looked pretty impressive especially with the new prices that is very attractive. In the US, Amazon is offering a new Kindle, with a lighted screen called the Paperwhite, which will have both a Wifi and 3G version and a two month battery life. Several Kindle Fire were also released and in a larger size, 8.9 inches as …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! We have a bunch of updates about Amazon’s upcoming new Kindles, Dorchester authors find a new home as well as our book news and covers to look out for!

The big news this week is some developments with  Amazon who have just finalized  their deal in buying the rights of Dorchester’s authors. Around 1000 contracts were acquired and the authors have been offered backdated royalties as well as new homes in Amazon’s own publishing imprints such as Montlake Romance and Science Fiction and Fantasy to 47 North. However some authors such as Brian Keene has reported that whilst his own rights have reverted back to him, he’s seeing that that a couple of his books along with others who found new homes being listed under the old Dorchester imprint, Leisure. Whether this is a mistake or not remains to be seen but hopefully this saga …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! This week we have another author meltdown which is a bit of a doozy and news on Barnes and Nobel news as well as the upcoming books to watch out for.

Barnes and Nobel have announced that they will be finally expanding in the UK market with their Nook devices. They have a launched a Nook UK online store which will offer their products but they also plan in teaming up with retailers which will sell their devices to customers in stores although there is no details on who it will be. However it may not be as easy to break into the UK market as the Kindle, which is already offered in a few stores as well as the Kobo and even the Sony ereader have made in-roads in the ereading/ereader market. Barnes and Nobel is also facing a tough financial time, because …

Around the Bookish World: Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! We have news from Sony’s new ereader which was launched this week, book news and snippets as well as the books to watch out for!

The new Sony ereader, the PRS-T2, which features a better button layout, zooming, and sharing capabilities which readers can post their favourite passages on Facebook. The PRS-T2 also features a pearl-ink screen, two month battery life if the wifi is off and a 2 gig memory. The price offered for the new reader is slightly cheaper compared to its predescors which is at $129. However some commentators have stated there isn’t nothing new or innovated with this new model and disappointed that this ereader wont feature a frontlit screen, which the Nook or the rumoured upcoming Kindles have.  More info on the ereader can be found be found here and it is up for order right now!

It seems tablets …

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 …