{"id":1235,"date":"2012-02-07T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2012-02-07T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:19:55","slug":"ravenous-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/ravenous-for-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravenous for Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nifty little news article<\/a> in Publishers Weekly<\/em> mentioned that erotica ebook publisher Ravenous Romance has now been joined by a “thriller” line, Ravenous Shadows, with John Skipp as editorial director. Having read the very short summaries of the first few titles provided in the article, I’d say calling these books thrillers is a massive understatement. Skipp’s idea, according to the article, is to make it possible to read a book in the time it would take to watch a movie, so the books are short- 30,000-60,000 words.<\/p>\n

One of our reviewers, David Agranoff, has often made positive comments about some of the excellent novellas that come his way that are just the right length for a plane ride. So I think Skipp is on to something here. Readers of ebooks consume them absolutely ravenously- I am guilty of it, for sure. It’s so easy to do, and ebooks are so accessible, while some physical novellas are available only in limited editions. I think Skipp has a winning concept here. With plans to publish 30-40 ebooks a year, this should open doors for writers as well as readers. It will be very interesting to see what comes of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nifty little news article in Publishers Weekly mentioned that erotica ebook publisher Ravenous Romance has now been joined by a “thriller” line, Ravenous Shadows, with John Skipp as editorial director. Having read the very short summaries of the first few titles provided in the article, I’d say calling these books thrillers is a massive<\/p>\n

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