The most popular book format is still mass market paperback at 60.4% (but this is down from 69.2% last year).But when asked which one sub-genre they read most, the majority of respondents said paranormal romance. The most popular sub-genre this past year was contemporary romance, followed closely by historical romance and paranormal romance.Merrian sent me this link to the Australian Romance Reader survey. The initial cellular partner is Sprint, but Republic is working to use other carriers as fallback options as well. It can offer these low rates because its phones use a special ‘Hybrid Calling’ system that relies on Wifi whenever possible, falling back to cellular connections when Wifi isn’t available. The cost? $19 a month for unlimited text, data, and voice service.Īs GigaOm reported last week, it will cost only $19 a month for unlimited text, data, and voice.
In non related book tech news, Republic Wireless is offering low cost cellular service because it falls back and uses wifi whenever possible. Minotaur also bought three books from Allison Brennan for over $500K soon after Eisler turned down his offer from Minotaur. I thought that Lyon’s books were romantic suspense but if they are published by Minotaur, it sounds like they are more thriller? I believe Minotaur was the publisher of Barry Eisler before he accepted a similar offer from Amazon. I hope if you live in one of those places, you are voting today.
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