Dear Author had an excellent Scribd offer a few months back, giving us a three-month trial instead of one month. I signed up, happy to have access to free books for three months. At least, that w...
When I first started this series on how people read and buy books, I was surprised by how many readers still claim to use the library as a discovery channel and screening tool. I’m not sure why...
Last week’s post on digital book prices for commercial fiction engendered a lot of great responses, reflecting some really passionate opinions on how books are priced and how readers make their...
https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/a-culture-of-reading-or-a-culture-of-buying/
Harlequin has signed a deal to provide exclusive subscription access to 15,000 backlist titles to Scribd subscribers. Not sure what Scribd is? It’s a subscription access service. I wrote about ...
Discussion about the recent changes to B&N have revealed a number of Kobo customers are having trouble with some Kobo books they’ve purchased. Kobo’s Customer Care department (a misnomer if...
https://dearauthor.com/ebooks/making-sure-your-kobo-book-can-be-downloaded/
Dear readers, Although I’m not an ardent fan of Erin McCarthy’s True Believers books, I did like the first two novels enough to keep reading. The endings of True and Sweet didn’t quite leav...
https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-c-reviews/c-reviews/review-believe-by-erin-mccarthy/
Dear Ms. McCarthy, I read your debut new adult novel, True, earlier this year. While I liked it overall, I thought there were some major flaws and the ending failed to work for me. That said, it ...
https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-c-reviews/c-plus-reviews/review-sweet-by-erin-mccarthy/
The following is a revised and updated version of my very first post for Dear Author a few years ago. With tablets and smart phones becoming more and more popular, and with more apps than ever, w...
https://dearauthor.com/ebooks/reading-with-android-101-a-reading-app-guide-revisited/
With the iPad, iPad Mini, Nexus 7 & 10, Kindle Fire HD 7 & 8.9, Nook Tablet and dozens of more generic Android tablets in the market place things are getting very crowded with good tablets. On Se...
https://dearauthor.com/ebooks/review-a-look-at-the-new-nook-hd-9-tablet/
There has been a lot of debate about whether self-publishing is killing the book industry, whether bad books are driving out good books, and whether self-published books are diminishing respect f...
https://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/the-hidden-costs-of-the-0-99-ebook/