You pick the mix…
August 21, 2008
I mean cover. This is sort of nifty. It appeals to the control freak in me, no really. Which cover you gonna vote for? And who is Katherine Allred?
Tags: Eos, Harper Collins, Katherine Allred, Pick a coverReview: The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life by Kerry Reichs
July 11, 2008
LauraD's review of The Best Day of Someone Else's Life by Kerry Reichs
Chick Lit released from Avon A 6 May 08
If the author's name sounds familiar, it's probably because you've read one of her mother's mystery novels. However, Kerry Reichs has written a sweet and funny novel about a young woman still trying to find her own happiness while all around her, everyone else is finding theirs. Well, at least they're getting married.
Tags: Avon A, chick lit, Grade B, Harper Collins, Kerry Reichs, LauraD, Review, The Best Day of Someone Else's Life, Women's FictionDuck Flash: Toni Blake’s Secrets
May 19, 2008
This just in...
If you're a Toni Blake fan, you'll want to make sure you get a copy of You Send Me, an ebook prequel to her upcoming release Letters to a Secret Lover.
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Duck Flash: Baggin’ Some Books
May 18, 2008
This just in...
What easier way to get your hands on some brand new books than to win them! Harper-Collins and The Sak are joining forces to give you a chance to win loads of books for the next year. And also you'll get a great bag to boot!
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Valenduckie: It’s a Wrap!
February 23, 2008
Before Syb fires me for being the worst Contest Duckie ever (I admit it, I'm Wordpress challenged, or as Syb said, I have bevnical difficulties), I wanted to send some luv out. Read more
Playing with Sands
February 14, 2008
So even more great news, Harper Collins put up Lnysay Sands' Vampire, Interrupted as one of the books on their online preview/reading promotion. To which I have to say, go read it! Really, and I know there are lots of Argeneau-aholics out there that are dying for a sneak peek into Marguerite's story before it comes out later this month.
Click here for the first three, and part of the fourth chapters.
I think it's great of the publisher to be offering long excerpts of books to help garner interest. It's a marketing technique, sure, but it's a good one. Why not try more than a couple of pages from a book for an excerpt? Makes sense to give a preview of a couple of chapters so the reader can get a good solid feel for the book.
So go! Read to your heart's content. And get Vampire, Interrupted on February 26. You know you want to.
Tags: Harper Collins, Lynsay Sands, March 2008, Vampire InterruptedFreebies, get your freebies!
February 11, 2008
Harper Collins has decided that it may be good publishing business to offer some books free online. Read the whole story before you decide, but it could make some business sense. Why not offer part of a book, or even a whole book, online for people to preview so they can start lusting after it and then go buy it?
I know there are some music sites that do this, give you a 30-second or a minute listen to a song and then, if you like it, you can buy it or even the whole album. The idea of prelistening or previewing a book online could help boost internet sales too. Why not read the book, then order it from Amazon if you like the first few chapters?
The bottom of the article mentions the next book by Victoria Alexander, The Perfect Wife, will have the first fifth put online for people to read. All the books Harper Collins is putting online seem to appeal to a cross section of the reading populace, giving access to a little bit of everything. I'm definitely all for encouraging reading and doing what you can to get people to buy books.
Let's see how it actually works though. 
[Edit from Gwen: How is this any different than online excerpts, I wonder, except perhaps a little bit longer excerpt (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE)? This sounds like a marketing approach to me, to make it sound like they're doing something nifty neat and wonderful, when it's actually relatively normal. Come to think of it, I've written marketing campaigns like that...]
Tags: 2000, Excerpts as Freebies, Harper Collins, Robert Irvine, Victoria Alexander
