The digital wheel keeps on rolling

Recently the Archive announced the launch of Carina Press, a new imprint of romance publisher Harlequin that will exclusively publish eBooks. eBook-only publishers, a group that's really growing in a publishing world where eReaders are getting more popular every day.

Like Carina, a lot of the eBook-only presses focus on genre titles -- romance, science fiction, fantasy -- which lend themselves naturally to the eBook format, as they're often quickly-consumed and addictive. Presses like Uncial and Atlantic Bridge don't specifically focus on one genre, but are clearly driven by fantasy and sci-fi to the extent that they specify general fiction titles as "Mainstream." Others, like Samhain Publishing, from which Carina is taking its new executive editor, have found that the romance genre is very successful in eBooks. FULL STORY