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Locus Awards 2013 Ballot Announced

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:54:13 +0000

From Boing Boing comes news of this year’s Locus nominees, shared there because one of its editors, Cory Doctorow, is nominated. I am not a huge SF reader, so most of these have stayed off my radar. But if you go for that stuff, enjoy this list of good books! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL • The Hydrogen [...]

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Ray Bradbury’s books are finally going digital

Susan Lulgjuraj — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:15:02 +0000

For many years, author Ray Bradbury didn’t want his books digitized. But he finally relented before his death in 2011, and allowed arguably his most famous book, Fahrenheit 451, to become an e-book. But fans of Bradbury—old and those yet to be made—will be happy to hear that several of his books will in fact [...]

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Weekend Roundup — Meet Blackfriars, a digital-first literary fiction imprint

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:45:48 +0000

HTML5 will be the future of publishing (Tools of Change) 60% of Audiobooks Sold Are Now Digital (Galleycat) The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books (The Guardian) Little, Brown UK launches digital-first imprint for literary fiction (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: 30 Kindle Fiction e-books for $1.99 or less

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Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey (Review)

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:21:18 +0000

We’ve all heard by now about the success of the latest e-book indie darling, Hugh Howey—when his self-published Kindle series became a Kindle best-seller, he made a deal with the big publishers—but in a ground-breaking twist, the deal included only the print rights, and Howey continues to sell the e-books himself. Howey is also notoriously anti-DRM and I dig [...]

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Book Review: Tears in Rain by Rosa Montero

Juli Monroe — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:00:32 +0000

Sometimes a book comes along that is so good you know it’ll stay with you forever. Tears in Rain is one of those books for me. I found it by accident. It showed up on my Kindle with Special Offers earlier this month. I saw it was about replicants and was Prime Lending eligible. I [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke Novels Now Available in E-Book Form

Aggregated Content — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:46:45 +0000

By Matthew Marchesano | for Technology Tell One of the most significant figures in the world of science fiction, writer Arthur C. Clarke, has been digitized. Thirty-five titles by Clarke, including the 2001: A Space Odyssey, will be released in digital format for the first time in the U.S. The availability comes with an announcement made by [...]

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Cli-fi ebook to launch on Earth Day in April, by Dan Bloom

a TeleRead Contributor — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:13:53 +0000

Science fiction in literature and movies has a long history and dates way back. The great Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) wrote the 1961 sci-fi novel ”Solaris” that was later turned into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and again in 2002 in a new Hollywood remake by Steven Soderbergh, starring George [...]

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E-Reads acquires Brian Aldiss backlist

Paul Biba — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:07:16 +0000

From the press release: E-Reads, a leading independent e-book publisher and a powerhouse in fantasy and science fiction, has acquired US e-book and print rights to fifteen titles by British science fiction Grandmaster Brian Aldiss, winner of two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Included in the trove are [...]

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Sci-Fi Publisher Orbit Expands E-Singles Program Internationally

Paul Biba — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:06:20 +0000

From paidContent: Science fiction/fantasy publisher Orbit, which is part of Hachette Book Group, is expanding its short fiction e-offerings from the U.S. to the UK and other countries where Orbit titles are sold. The program, which includes original fiction from Orbit authors, launched in the U.S. in April. “The digital short fiction market is clearly [...]

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Amazon Publishing launches sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint – 47North

Paul Biba — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:31:28 +0000

From the press release: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of 47North, the seventh imprint from Amazon Publishing, focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror. 47North launches with 15 books, including “The Mongoliad: Book One,” the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of [...]

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E-Reads cuts deal with Gollancz for UK publication of 400 SF ebook titles

Paul Biba — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:26:14 +0000

From the [e-reads] blog: E-Reads has signed a deal with UK publisher Gollancz to publish e-book editions in the UK and Commonwealth of almost 400 science fiction and fantasy titles as part of Gollancz’s Gateway initiative. Orion deputy CEO and publisher Malcolm Edwards and Gollancz digital publisher Darren Nash negotiated the deal, which includes works [...]

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Ebook sales cannibalizing sci-fi and romance print sales

Paul Biba — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:55:07 +0000

From The Bookseller. More details in the article: The data, released as part of a seminar held yesterday with Enders Analysis, ‘Digital Seminar: e-books and their impact on the market’, showed genres such as science fiction and romance are “overperforming” thanks to the tastes of early adopters of e-books. For example, the e-book market share [...]

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