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 number given the popularity of e-reading … [Read more...] about HarperCollins Launches Erotica Digital Imprint
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Authors Strike Back Against PayPal’s Censorship of Smashwords
Smashwords, the popular online ebook distribution platform that recently celebrated the uploading of the 100,000th title to its catalog of digital editions, found itself embroiled in some controversy over a request from PayPal that it remove nearly 2,000 titles that the online payment company considered inappropriate or offensive. Failure to do so would result in the … [Read more...] about Authors Strike Back Against PayPal’s Censorship of Smashwords
E-Readers Stimulating the Sales of Erotica eBooks
Sales are rising of erotic ebooks due to the constant proliferation of e-readers. At any given time there are numerous erotica books in the best seller list on Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.British Columbia owned eXtasy Books recently told the CBC that “Customers are starting to discover them and finding that they can read certain books that they do not want other … [Read more...] about E-Readers Stimulating the Sales of Erotica eBooks
What’s in a Pen Name?
Authors have used pseudonyms, or pen names, for almost as long as books have been printed, and they've chosen to do so for a variety of reasons. Whether it's a need for privacy, a distancing of one's writer life from a life of doing something else, or even just a need to become a different persona when it's time to write, there are really great reasons to use a pen name.A … [Read more...] about What’s in a Pen Name?