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PRESS RELEASE:
POCKET STAR RELAUNCHED AS DEDICATED EBOOK IMPRINT
NEW YORK, May 7, 2012 – Louise Burke, Executive Vice President and Publisher, announced today that Pocket Books, America’s first paperback publisher, has re-launched its Pocket Star line as an eBook-only imprint. As it did in print, Pocket Star will continue to feature bestselling and debut authors in
1550 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
1342 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,
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From Publishers Weekly:
With demand for mass market paperbacks withering, Berkley/NAL, the mass market paperback division of Penguin, will launch a new e-book imprint in January that will operate much like a mass market paperback publisher. InterMix will focus on titles in traditional mass market genres—women’s fiction, romance, mystery/thriller and science
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Continuing to expand its team, digital publisher Open Road has hired Maggie Crawford as a strategic advisor, focusing on commercial fiction, including romance, women’s fiction, thrillers and mysteries.
Crawford spent many years at Simon & Schuster division Pocket Books as vice president and editorial director until being laid off in 2009 during a period of cutting
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From the press release:
Just released, the “Best Romance” app, now available on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, presents the world’s best of the most recent romance novels. The app offers romance fans free previews of all ebooks and 15 complete bestselling free ebooks. “Best Romance” application is now available on Apple App
2431 readersAmazon has launched a new publishing imprint for romance novels called Montlake Romance. This is the fourth imprint from Amazon Publishing, which also includes AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing and Powered by Amazon.
Romance novelist Connie Br...
3498 readersAvon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, has debuted a new imprint specifically dedicated to eBooks called Avon Impulse.
The line launches with A Lady’s Wish, an original eBook by Katharine Ashe, which goes on sale on 3/15. Royal Wedding,...
1510 readersFrom Shelf Awareness: Amazon Publishing will launch its newest imprint,Montlake Romance, with Connie Brockway’s The Other Guy’s Bride, scheduled for release this fall. The imprint, which takes its name from the central Seattle neighborhood of Montlake, will publish romantic suspense and contemporary and historic romance novels, as well as fantasy and paranormal. “Romance is one of
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From Good E Reader:
While a number of forward thinking publishing houses have developed ebook-only imprints, especially in high volume genres like romance, HarperCollins has announced its erotica imprint within its Avon romance imprint. The new division, Mischief, will launch with thirteen original ebooks and plans to release four ebooks per month, a slight