Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble, said to be the world’s largest bookseller, for $15.7 million in a stock deal that TeleRead revealed earlier today. I spoke with Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise at 7:20 a.m. EST this morning and he told me that all the Fictionwise sites̵...

I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!) Did you know that the expressions “the writing on the wall� and “days are...

Ellen Glasgow , 1873-1945, American novelist, b. Richmond, Va. In revolt against the romantic treatment of Southern life, Glasgow presented in fiction a social history of Virginia since 1850, stressing the changing social order and the emergence of a dominant middle class and rejecting the outworn c...

Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1932) was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Also known occasionally as Harold McGrath, he was born in Syracuse, New York. As a young man, he worked as a reporter and columnist on the Syracuse Herald newspaper until...

I was thrilled to see Books on Board play up The Solomon Scandals, my suspense novel, on the home page and use a nonDRMed version of the ePub standard as the first format. Other leading formats will follow. Scandals is also on sale now in various formats at eReader.com, Fictionwise and the Kindle st...

Now that the site is working properly again, here are some follow-ups to past stories I have posted. "Newsasaur" here; PDA D&D and the Missing Manual after the jump. Newsasaur Roars Alan D. Mutter—the ex-journalist blogger whose editorial "Why newspapers can’t stop the...

This is more an adventure tale than a Western, really. Raine was fond of placing his stories in the West of the States, though, as he felt at home there. Oh and I fell in love with one of the characters. She is a small girl called Moya. Here's a litte excerpt to show you why: Quote: A young idealist...

A startling new detective story by the author of Shadowed by Three.(1882) Quote: So, The Diamond Coterie was kind of awesome, and shall henceforth be enshrined in my heart, but itÂ’s hard to know what to say about it, because there was a lot going on. There were a lot of characters, any of whom migh...

OverDrive rudely reminded us of the perils of DRM when it stopped providing Mobipocket books to Fictionwise. An old lesson hit many e-book-lovers. You can’t really own a DRMed book. You’re at the mercy of profit-driven business people—and not just at the store that sold you the tit...

Mark Gladding of the E-Books Just Published site has posted a blog entry on using Stanza with the iPhone. (We previously covered Gladding’s piece on “E-book advice for authors� last month.) He writes that he was initially skeptical about the idea, preferring converting e-books into speech-synt...