Links

• Women's Rape Fantasies: How Common? What Do They Mean?: "Rape or near-rape fantasies are central to romance novels, one of the perennial best-selling categories in fiction."
• Bookstores Are Dead (If You Want Them To Be): "support independent science-fiction bookstores instead. They'll help keep the genre as a whole much healthier."
• A Few Romance Highlights from 2009: "Technology continues to impact the entire publishing world, changing the way books are published, sold, distributed, and read."
• Thursday Midday Links: Is Barnes&Noble Targeted for Takeover: "Sarah Weinman writes about the increasing ownership of Barnes and Noble stock by minority shareholder, Aletheia Research & Management"
• Yaoi Press Launches New Erotic eBooks Imprint, Yaoi Prose: "Studio Kôsen, the creative team behind Yaoi Press titles such as Saihoshi, Stallion, and Daemonium (published by TokyoPop) to offer illustrated erotic boys love novels."