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  2948 readers Once thought productive, one book a year from a beloved author doesn’t cut it any more for fans whose book consumption has accelerated in the e-book era (Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking): For years, it was a schedule as predictable as a calendar: novelists who specialized in mysteries, thrillers

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  2012 is the year of the ebook historical romance, Says BooksOnBoard

  476 readersFrom the press release: “At BooksOnBoard, 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Historical Romance,” stated Nathan Johnson, BooksOnBoard’s Director of Operations. “Sophisticated romance readers appreciate the specialized knowledge that authors must develop to write period content with accuracy, and 2012 has had, and will continue to have, a lot in that

• Historical Romance E-Books Trending, Says Independent E-Bookseller

  898 readers PRESS RELEASE: Historical Romance eBook Sales Trending at BooksOnBoard WEBWIRE – Tuesday, April 24, 2012 “At BooksOnBoard, 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Historical Romance,” stated Nathan Johnson, BooksOnBoard’s Director of Operations. “Sophisticated romance readers appreciate the specialized knowledge that authors must develop to write period content with accuracy, and 2012 has had, and

• calibre 0.8.63

  558 readersNew Features E-book viewer: Allow quick saving and loading of viewer settings as 'themes'. Ebook-viewer: Add a restore defaults button to the viewer preferences dialog E-book viewer: Add simple settings for text and background colors Add an entry to save to disk when right clicking a format in the book details panel ODT metadata: Read first image as the metadata

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  Array readersNew Features E-book viewer: Allow quick saving and loading of viewer settings as 'themes'. Ebook-viewer: Add a restore defaults button to the viewer preferences dialog E-book viewer: Add simple settings for text and background colors Add an entry to save to disk when right clicking a format in the book details panel ODT metadata: Read first image as the metadata

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  In the e-book era, writers may feel pressured to write more

  1579 readersThe New York Times has an interesting piece by Julie Bosman positing that, thanks to the ease with which e-books now allow authors to publish and self-publish, and let readers buy instantaneously, authors are now feeling “obligated” to write more, faster. Rather than publish the “usual” one book per year, authors are pressured to “[pull]

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  U Press Challenge: Profit or Perish

  550 readers Sometime in the 1930′s a wag coined the phrase “Publish or perish” to characterize the imperative for professors to publish their papers and books as often as possible. Implicit in the motto is the obscurity that faces academics whose literary output does not meet the quota or quality considered necessary to maintain their reputations –

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  Books On Board – Good Source Of Mainstream Ebooks

  1017 readersApart from free ebook sites such as Smashwords, we also have the internet equivalent of High Street Book shops, which sell a wide range of commercially published ebooks such as Books on Board.   For those of us who want to read thrillers and other mainstream writings written by authors we have heard about, these sites

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  Breakdown of categories in the Kindle Lending Library

  741 readers Here is the listing of categories and book totals from the Kindle Lending Library.  This is from my Kindle 4: All books: 5,156 Fiction: 1,346 Non-fiction: 3,865 Advice and how-to: 734 Business & investing: 480 Politics & current events: 90 Literary fiction: 78 Biographies & memoirs: 223 Religion & spirituality: 456 Science fiction: 68 Fantasy: 30 Mystery & thrillers: 149 Romance: 330 Science: 189 History: 271 Children’s ebooks: 294 Reference: 481 Travel: 247 Sports:

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  Romance ebooks are top ebook sellers

  1345 readersThe NY Times has an article about the romance book market. According to the author romance is the fastest growing segment of the ereading market, including general fiction, mystery and science fiction. “Romance,” said Matthew Shear, the executive vice president and publisher of St. Martin’s Press, which releases 40 to 50 romance novels each year,