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  Orbit launches digital short fiction program

  6334 readersFrom the Orbit site: We are publishing digital editions of original short stories from some of your favorite authors! The stories will be available at all major ebook retailers – initially in the US, further afield in the very near future. We’ve got a fantastic launch list of stories including apocalyptic SF from zombie-maven Mira Grant,

• Nine Alice Walker eBooks Released

  1837 readers Open Road Integrated Media is putting out eBook versions of nine different Alice Walker books today. The titles, which are being released digitally for the first time, include three novels, The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian; three poetry collections, Revolutionary Petunias, Horses Make a Landscape

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  Amazon Will Publish 32 Titles This Year

  1261 readersToday Amazon announced that it plans to publish 32 books in late summer and early fall. The titles will be released under its various imprints, including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing and Thomas & Mercer. The books will include novels and a short story collection that span the genres of humor, mystery,

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  Dzanc Books Launches eBook Club

  1192 readersDzanc Books has launched a digital book club called Dzanc Books eBook Club. To help promote the launch, Dzanc is offering a deal, in which you get 11 eBooks for $50, in exchange for signing up. Five of the titles will be available to the member immedia...

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  Orbit Books is Getting into Short Digital Fiction

  3695 readersOrbit Books, a UK based SF publisher, has just started publishing its first digital shorts. Short fiction is the term given to stories that aren’t long enough for a novel, and normally would not have been printed as a stand-alone book. The term c...

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  Publishers find Amazon self-publishing ‘threatening’, self-published writer suggests

  1992 readersWriter Kiana Davenport blogs the cautionary tale of how her self-publishing collections of her short stories led to one of the Big Six publishers backing out of a contract to publish her first novel. She had self-published the collections of already-published short stories after submitting to and being rejected by various publishers, including the one

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  Black Library offers Christmas e-book bundles

  2562 readersOur sister blog GamerTell points out a set of game-related e-book deals for the holiday season. Games Workshop e-book publisher Black Library (whom we’ve covered here before) is offering a number of e-book and audiobook bundles for fans who haven’t bought in yet. Some of them are a little pricey. For example: Christmas Space Marine eBundle:

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  Rockstar Games Partners With Mulholland Books

  2095 readersRockstar Games, has teamed up with Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, to publish a series of short stories about crime in Los Angeles. L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories is a digital story collection that will be available for on...

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  ‘By Hook or By Crook’ Is Free eBook Of The Day

  398 readersBy Hook or By Crook, a collection of crime short stories, is today’s Free eBook of the Day. Stories in the collection include Dennis Lehane‘s Animal Rescue, Laura Lippman‘s Cougar, Mary Higgins Clark‘s The Tell-Tale Purr, Marcia Muller‘s Telegraphing, Nancy Pickard‘s Dark Chocolate, Kris Nelscott‘s Family Affair: A Smokey Dalton Story, among many more. Amazon and B&N both

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  Berkley/NAL To Release Nora Roberts eBooks On New InterMix Imprint

  1811 readersPenguin Group (USA)’s Berkley/NAL division is launching an eBook imprint called InterMix in January 2012. InterMix will publish new eBooks and backlist titles in a range of genres including women’s fiction, romance, mystery and thriller, and science fiction/fantasy. At launch next year, the imprint will release 11 titles from author Nora Roberts as eBooks for the