Digital news:
- Apple claims to have 20% of the U.S. eBook market.
- Digital Book World explains the recent increase in eBook bestseller prices.
Traditional news:
- Publisher’s Lunch has updates of the DOJ’s trial against Apple.
- Dan Brown’s Inferno is the #1 bestselling book in the U.S. for the fourth week in a row.
- HarperCollins closes New Zealand distribution network.
Indie Book Publishing:
- NYT and USA Today bestselling author Nichole Chase’s Suddenly Royal is picked up by Avon Romance.
- GalleyCat interviews Sarah Hansen, a cover designer used by many self-published stars.
Client News:
- Beth Albright’s The Sassy Belles breaks the top 30 on Amazon’s Women’s Fiction category.
- The second book in Shea Berkley’s YA supernatural Keeper of Life series, The Fallen Prince, debuted this week.
- A.R. Kahler’s New Adult fantasy, The Immortal Circus: Act Two, debuted this week with more than 2,000 pre-orders on Amazon. Laurie also sold Mr. Kahler’s The Tristram Cycle to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds.
- Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris saw their Kickstarter steampunk role playing game and fiction anthology, The Ministry Initiative, 120% funded with one day to go. Now that’s thinking outside the covers!
- Laurie signs a new client, Nick Taylor, husband to New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa. Nick writes awesome supernatural horror for teens.
- Laurie will be at Ellen Hopkins’ Ventana Sierra conference this weekend in Carson City, Nevada. If you’re around there, join her!
