New York-based publisher F+W Media is launching an e-book only romance imprint, Crimson Romance, publishing books to be sold at CrimsonRomance.com. The imprint will publish five titles a week. F+W Media is Digital Book World’s parent company.… Read More

PRESS RELEASE: Bestselling Author Jacquelyn Mitchard to Head F+W Media Young Adult Fiction Imprint… Mitchard’s ‘The Deep End of the Ocean’ was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and named one of the most influential books of Read More

From the the Harvard Crimson (Library System in Jeopardy): Since 2009, Harvard has been reorganizing its 73 libraries into a consolidated entity, the Harvard Library. Library staff members are deeply concerned that some of the proposed changes, including workforce reductions,… Read More

Philip Stone, charts expert: Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White tops this week's e-book charts thanks to its recent four-part TV adaptation hitting BBC Two. Sales of the print edition of the novel have also been on the… Read More

FutureBook has an article about this given the opening of the Amazon Germany ebookstore.  Here’s an excerpt: … The top selling Kindle Edition is British writer Simon Beckett’s Verwesung, and the selling price is €19.99. What’s that you say, €19.99?… Read More

According to the Bookseller, Amazon has launched a two-week Kindle sale which will follow the pattern of Christmas’ “12 Days of Kindle” promotion.  That promotion saw a sales increase of 363%. The campaign represents the most aggressive price push on… Read More

A COUPLE OF INTERESTING STORIES Today, a strange piece of research by Crimson Hexagon on the relative frequency of chatter about various ereaders on Twitter gets stories by Daemon’ Books, CNet, and others. The Nook and Nookcolor, the Kindle, and … Read More

A COUPLE OF INTERESTING STORIES Today, a strange piece of research by Crimson Hexagon on the relative frequency of chatter about various ereaders on Twitter gets stories by Daemon' Books, CNet, and others. The Nook and Nookcolor, the Kindle, and… Read More

The Nook is gaining in popularity, according to a new study from social media monitoring firm Crimson Hexagon. The company has been studying Twitter conversations surrounding eReaders, specifically looking at consumer satisfaction and in their most recent study, the company… Read More