Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Filed in News , The Smutty Lover Posted on July 15, 2011 @ 2:00 pm 3 comments
I hope everyone had a great week! This week’s news has some interesting tidbits about new publishing deals and more on Amazon’s new tablet albeit its all rumour.
First up, it looks like the US arm of Borders which has entered into administration is looking like they will enter full liquidation. I don’t really think at this point, that Borders can survive. which is a huge shame.

In a surprising and a worrying move there was an announcement by Ellora’s Cave, that author, Laurann Dohner has signed a 75 book deal with e-publisher. Now this seems to be beyond crazy with that amount of books, especially since many of the established longterm authors such as Cheyenne McCray and Lora Leigh have left the publisher. and I doubt any respectable agent would advise their client for this amount of books. However it does look like that Ellora’s Cave is desperate for submissions and I suspect there will be some interesting developments in the future about them.
Amazon’s new tablet has rumours hotting up that it will now be slated for release around October, ZDNet is reporting that according to the Wall Street Journal, that it will be android based and will link up with Amazon’s cloud service. This will certainly hot up the tablet market! And another thing to take note of, Amazon has also discounted their ad based Kindle 3G to $139 which is a fantastic deal, if you don’t mind ads instead of the screensaver on display.
More tablet/ereader news. Both Sony and Google have unveiled that they will be releasing new tablets and ereaders this year too. Sony, despite having fierce competition from the Nook and the Kindle will release a new ereader this fall to compete as well as entering the Tablet market.
Google who has teamed up with iRiver with their ereader which will be offered via Target stores in the US. It will offer books from Google ebook store and should be released pretty soon. 

Kelley Armstrong has tweeted that she has finished the last Otherworld book which is entitled 13 – It will be sad to see the end of this series but who is excited for this book?

Now for upcoming books!

I was lucky enough to read A Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep which will have a review and an interview next week! But the cover for the sequel and blurb has been posted.

Logan Quinn was try­ing to kill me. My Spar­tan class­mate relent­lessly pur­sued me, swing­ing his sword at me over and over again, the shin­ing sil­ver blade inch­ing closer to my throat every time. A smile tugged up his lips, and his ice-blue eyes prac­ti­cally glowed with the thrill of battle …
I’m Gwen Frost, a second-year warrior-in-training at Mythos Acad­emy, and I have no idea how I’m going to sur­vive the rest of the semes­ter. One day, I’m get­ting schooled in sword­play by the guy who broke my heart — the drop-dead gor­geous Logan who slays me every time. Then, an invis­i­ble archer in the Library of Antiq­ui­ties decides to use me for tar­get prac­tice. And now, I find out that some­one at the acad­emy is really a Reaper bad guy who wants me dead. I’m afraid if I don’t learn how to live by the sword — with Logan’s help — I just might die by the sword …

This book has set my spidey senses tingling and I really like the look of this!

They should never have met.
In a glittering community in the Colorado Rockies called the Etherlin, the descendants of the ancient muses live behind a wall that separates them from the world and the dangerous creatures who crave them.
Alissa North is inspiration made flesh, so she should never have met Merrick, a deadly half-vampire enforcer, but when they do meet, the connection is instantaneous, and an illicit flirtation is born. He sends her secret gifts. She writes him secret letters.
The long-distance friendship was never supposed to go any farther. But when she is kidnapped and thrown briefly into his world, everything changes. Now Alissa realizes he’s the only person she can trust, and Merrick finds he’ll do anything to protect her, even risk his life by crossing the wall.

The second book in the Delirium trilogy – Pandemonium

Lauren Oliver captivated readers with Delirium, the first book in a thrilling dystopian trilogy in which Lena Haloway dared to fall in love with Alex and escape the cure, the government-mandated procedure that renders a person immune to the disease of love. Lena and Alex staked their lives on leaving their oppressive society, but only Lena broke free.
Pandemonium continues Lena’s gripping story. After escaping from Portland, Maine, Lena makes it to the Wilds and becomes part of an Invalid community, where she transforms herself into a warrior for the resistance. A future without Alex is unimaginable, but Lena pushes forward and fights, both for him and for a world in which love is no longer considered a disease. Swept up in a volatile mix of revolutionaries and counterinsurgents, Lena struggles to survive—and wonders if she may be falling in love again.
Full of danger, forbidden romance, and exquisite writing, Lauren Oliver’s sequel to Delirium races forward at a breathtaking pace and is sure to appeal to fans who crave the high-stakes action of The Hunger Games and the bittersweet love story of Romeo & Juliet.

We also have Elisabeth Naughton’s popular Eternal Guardian series- the 4th book, Enraptured was posted by a few days ago!

AND FINALLY!!!!

ZOMG so excited – Anne Bishop has confirmed and has posted the cover for the 3rd Ephemera book. The Bridge of Dreams. Its slated for next March. Squeeeeeeeeeeee

So what do you think of any of the news I posted today? What do you think of the upcoming ereaders/tablets? Do you think that a dedicated ereader device will die out with increasing focus from tablets?

About Has


Has is a bookaholic and feeds her addiction whenever she can. She usually can be found lost in a Romance or an Urban Fantasy novel. Her favourite sub genres are Paranormal, Fantasy and some Scifi. Her most treasured authors are, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Ann Aguirre, Lisa Kleypas and Tamora Pierce. She loves that discovery of finding a brand new author and falling in love with their books. Has also blogs a The Book Pushers - Book chatter and reviews

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  • Sheree July 15, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    Such a bummer about Border's. I like them more than B&N.

    I'm undecided about dedicated ereaders. I have a Kindle and most of the time I use it to check my emails and social media (Twitter, Facebook). However, it's way lighter than a tablet-like device like the Nook Color. I guess I'll just wait and see.

  • Has July 16, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    I agree its a shame about Borders and it has affected sales for a lot of print books but I think its a sign of the times.

    I do think dedicated ereaders have a place. I love the fact the battery is longer than tablets. But if the Mirasol readers ever come out to play (colour E-ink) I think this can be a way to replace LCD tablets as well.

  • Ju Dimello July 17, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    whoa.. 2 days I am not there and a whole bunch of new covers come up !! Me wants all the books, right now 😉 But well.. gotta curb a bit and wait until next month to binge on books again…

    Sad to hear about Borders..

    And I am still undecided on dedicated e-readers.. I do purcahse from Amazon, but read on "the kindle for pc"… and I am loathe to give Amazon 50% of every book out there , which comes through publishers.. the authors get only a royalty of the net.. and so does the publisher.. which means, they get half the royalty of what he/she gets when we purchase directly from the publisher site… which is a sad state of affairs, IMO. I just cannot imagine one "retailer" making such a bulk of the profit.. and they're made indispensable by readers' dependancy on tablets… Kind of reminds me of a tsunami….Can you see I'm confused and really split on what side to take… !!! but then, this is just my opinion..

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