Gilbane Publishing Practice Blog

As I write this, someone in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is editing the entry on British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. As Ben Vershbow notes over at if:book, it is weirdly compelling.

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eBook followers will remember that Oprah endorsed eBooks early on, even choosing one of the early eBook readers as one of her Favorite Things. Now she has caused a bitstorm around an eBook version of Suze Orman's book Women and Money.

The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey's television show that the e-book edition would be available for free on her Web site, http://www.oprah.com, for a period of 33 hours.

The download offer "has built excitement for Suze's book across all formats," Julie Grau, the book's publisher, said in a statement.

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Steve Paxhia noted during a meeting the other day that the kindle is indeed still on back order, though as far as we know there are no definitive numbers out on how many they have actually sold. Still, unless there are extraordinarily problems with their manufacturing or supply chain, they have to be producing and selling a healthy number of them. In another meeting last week, someone actually said, "I will read that on my Kindle on the flight back."

Then today, via Slashdot I learn that science fiction publisher Tor is giving away free eBooks in association with the launch of their new website. Science fiction is another market, along with romance, that has been good for eBooks, and this kind of wide-scale marketing strikes me as a logical next step.

UPDATE: Evan Schnittman of Oxford University Press is making maximum use of his Kindle and thinks it beats the SkyMall catalog any day.

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and tagged: Harlequin Publishing, Kindle, Tor Publishing
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