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Thorns
Robert Silverberg
In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul, Duncan Chalk. Chalk feeds ...


Hot Sky at Midnight
Robert Silverberg
Several decades into the future, a long series of corporate and government decisions has left the Earth in a state of disaster, almost uninhabitable. The icecaps have melted. The ozone layer is destroyed. A few...

Kingdoms of the Wall
Robert Silverberg
The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as "The Wall." Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annua...


Tower of Glass
Robert Silverberg
Simeon Krug is a self-made man, fantastically wealthy, having built a huge fortune with his android "products," genetically-engineered human slaves who worship him as a God. Krug epitomizes self-aggrandizement,...

Clan Ground
Clare Bell
With her mastery over fire—known as “the Red Tongue”—Ratha now leads the Named, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats with their own language, traditions, and law. But, her control becomes threat...


Jerusalem
Cecelia Holland
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomine Tuo da gloriam. “Not to us, O Lord, but to Your Name give glory.” This motto highlights the vows of chastity and humility taken by the Knights Templar. But, it als...

The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost
John Bellairs
On a trip to Florida with his father, Johnny Dixon visits a fortuneteller, and receives an eerie premonition. Inside the crystal ball Johnny sees a ghost-white face with long white hair and black eyes like p...


The Totems of Abydos
John Norman
In a far future, two anthropologists, gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naive Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes, of a sort no longer welcome on ...

Those Gentle Voices
John Norman
THOSE GENTLE VOICES A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways
"Because it's there..." That was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star, Wolf 359. In 1988, they ha...


Jovian
Don Moffitt
Like all human colonists born into the crushing gravity of Jupiter, Jarls Anders commands tremendous physical strength and survival ability. And, like his fellow Jovians, Jarls has grown up innocent, easy to e...
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Red Limit Freeway
John DeChancie
Jake McGraw is a man on the run from half the universe. After stumbling upon what seems to be the fabled roadmap to the stars, Jake must outrun the most detestable vermin and roadbugs in the galaxy and the...

Midsummer Moon
Laura Kinsale
All the king's horses and all the king's men could not surpass the intellect and beauty of Merlin Lambourne. As the infamous Napoleon's deadly army grows ever closer, Lord Ransom Falconer frantically search...


Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour
Marti Rulli
REVISED EDITION with new updates and additional information not included in the original hardcover release!
GOODBYE NATALIE, GOODBYE SPLENDOUR is the long-awaited, detailed account of events that led to the...

Royal Seduction
Jennifer Blake
Angeline’s virtue was intact before she met the prince of Ruthenia...before he mistook her for her cousin, his brother’s mistress and the only witness to his murder...before he exacted his punishment for k...


Ariel
Steven R. Boyett
At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated tha...

Highland Bride
Hannah Howell
Journey to the treacherous and tempestuous Highlands of fifteenth century Scotland in Hannah Howell's passionate tale of a feisty beauty determined to uncover the softer side of the iron-willed warrior who ha...


The Chieftain
John Norman
A science fiction series filled with interplanetary adventure, rebellion and mortal combat by the author the The Gorean Saga. First in the series, The Chieftain. This is the age of the Telnarians. Their vas...

The Harder They Fall
Jill Shalvis
The good doctor Hunter Adams’ steady life is suddenly wracked by a whirlwind. Trisha Malloy, vixen, lingerie saleswoman and magnet for disaster, has entered Hunter’s life and begun to destroy everything. H...


The Bird of Time
George Alec Effinger
Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing ...

The Beauty of the Beasts
Ralph Helfer
They're major stars who don't speak a word on-screen, yet are world-famous for their compelling performances. Who are they? The animal stars of the big screen, of course! In THE BEAUTY OF THE BEASTS, Ralph Hel...


Ratha's Courage
Clare Bell
"Screeching in pain and terror, the rogues backed off, but they didn't flee like the Un-Named raiders did. Something seemed to force them back into the fray, making them ignore their fright and their agony...

Shanji
James C. Glass
On the planet Shanji, a ruthless Emperor rules a subjugated people. Kati, raised by the lower caste Tumatsin, is taken captive by the Emperor's troops, but saved by The Searchers, who see her as the promise...


Talking Back to Prozac
Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You about today’s Most Controversial Drug With an Information Packed New Introduction
Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Bestselling Author of Medication Ma...

Southern Rapture
Jennifer Blake
Lettie Mason vowed to bring the man who killed her brother during the American Civil War to justice. Now the war is over and she finally can. Yet, she falls into her brother's murderer's embrace and her emoti...
“Despite the widespread impression that e-book people are the jet-setters of the publishing business,” we wrote a while back, “the truth is that just about every step in the creation and publication of e-books is excruciatingly boring. In fact, e-book publishing may be described as long stretches of stupefying tedium punctuated by moments of numbing monotony.”
This observation found support in Andrew Wilkins’s coverage of what sounds like the quintessentially boring event of all time, the world’s first convention on metadata. For those who are drawing a blank, metadata is all the stuff that goes into an e-book that is not the book itself. It includes such tedium-inducing items as the ISBN, jacket copy, cover image, publisher information, territorial rights, country codes, suggested retail prices in US and foreign currencies, BISAC code, and a host of other data.
Before you click out of this essay there is one more thing you need to know about metadata: without it the e-book industry would vanish off the face of the earth. For unless your publisher provides it to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo Apple and other retailers, they will not carry your e-book.
“Good data isn’t just nice to have,” writes Andrew Wilkins of Publishing Perspectives, “these days, there can be serious commercial consequences if your book information isn’t correct.” Wilkins cites a Nielsen executive who notes that “those titles in Nielsen’s top-selling 85,000 with complete data records sold 70% more copies on average than those with incomplete metadata.”
Enough publishing people felt the subject vitally interesting enough to convene a conference about it at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair. One attendee went so far as to declare “Managing data needs to be a strategic priority.” Maybe it would become one if we called it something else. Wilkins nailed it when he lamented “Can’t we just choose another more sexy term?”
Now that we have your rapt attention, you can follow up by reading All About BISAC Codes, Mastering the Mysteries of Metadata and Looking for Tedium? E-Books Are Your Medium.
Richard Curtis