A Memory of Light debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List this week, despite an online campaign to give one-star ratings to the conclusion of the epic fantasy Wheel of Time series created by the late Robert Jordan.

The digital book will not be released until April 9th. This decision generated a slew of angry one-star reviews on Amazon–most by people who had not read the book.

As of this writing, the book had 270 one-star reviews on Amazon, most of them from readers upset about the lack of a digital book. Do you think this negative campaign will influence any book buyers?

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By the end of the year, all 26 Nate the Great books will be available as digital books. Forty years ago, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat began the series of books about a boy detective.

Here’s more from the release: “In addition to the eBook launch, a new Nate the Great chapter book titled Nate the Great, Where Are You? will be published in May 2014. This is the first new title in the series since Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club in 2009, both co-authored with Mitchell Sharmat.”

The eBook launch begins on January 30th as Random House Children’s Books releases five books from the series: Nate the Great, Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail, Nate the Great and the Pillowcase, Nate the Great and the Monster Mess and Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine.

Tor Books released A Memory of Light as a $34.99 hardcover this week, the final book in epic fantasy Wheel of Time series created by the late Robert Jordan.

The digital book will not be released until April 9th, generating a slew of angry one-star reviews on Amazon–most by people who had not read the book.

As of this writing, the book had 119 one-star reviews, most of them from readers upset about the lack of a digital book. Some of these readers threatened to seek out pirated digital editions of the book.

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For the first time, Simon & Schuster has published digital editions of all ten books written by President Richard Nixon, just in time for his birthday today.

We discussed his legacy on the Morning Media Menu today. Press play below to listen…

Working on behalf of The Richard Nixon Foundation, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP attorney Robert C. Odle, Jr. negotiated the deal with publisher Jonathan Karp. Most of the books cost $13.99 on Amazon, currently. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon will cost $14.99.

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eBook prices took a dramatic drop this month, the average digital book price sinking by 61-cents. Do you think these trends will continue in 2013?

AppNewser has all the details:

The average price for an eBook on Digital Book World’s bestsellers list dropped $.61 during the first week this year. According to new metrics from Digital Book World and Iobyte Solutions, the average price of an eBook bestseller was $8.23 during the first week of the year, which is down from $8.84 the average price for an eBook bestseller in mid-December. Digital Book World attributed the drop to retailer discounting.

Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer will write the first Dr. Who story for an upcoming collection of Dr. Who short stories from Penguin UK’s Puffin imprint.

The announcement was made on Facebook earlier this morning. As of this writing, the post has received more than 2,800 “likes.”

Colfer has written a brand new story for the First Doctor (played by UK actor William Hartnell in the mid-1960′s) called “A Big Hand for the Doctor.”

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Eleven famous children’s authors will write short stories set in the Dr. Who universe, honoring the British television series’ 50th anniversary.

The stories will be released first as digital “eshorts.” Penguin UK’s Puffin imprint will release a comprehensive paperback collection in November 2013.

Here’s more from BBC: “The first children’s author will be revealed on the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who Facebook page on Monday 7 January, followed by the first story on Wednesday 23 January. A promotional video of each author will also be available each month on the BBC Worldwide YouTube channel starting on Friday 11 January.”

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The online men’s magazine AskMen has opened a new publishing program through PressBooks, creating seven new eBooks in two and a half months.

Led by AskMen managing editor Emma McKay, the imprint uses content from her pool of writers at the site. Check it out:

AskMen did two books with us to test the waters, and in October, decided on a bigger project: they planned to get 7 books out the door before the end of the year. Two-and-a-half months is too quick to do that, I told Emma, but we set up Askmen with a PressBooks Publisher platform (website, book catalog, and ebook production), and thought, “Ha. Good luck meeting those crazy publishing deadlines, Emma!” Well, Emma and her team at AskMen did meet the deadline:7 books, live on a PressBooks Publisher site, and out in ebook retailers (through PressBooks distribution partner, INscribe Digital).

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Are you struggling to promote your self-published digital book?

Thanks to the Kindle Boards, we discovered a long list of places where self-published authors can promote their eBook for free.

We’ve collected more information about the sites in a simple directory below, linking to the submission pages for these eBook sites. If you are looking for more support, try our Self-Publishing Finishing School–an online course to help you with the final steps of the indie route.

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Want to give your friends and family eBooks this year?

Open Road Integrated Media has created a helpful set of videos explaining how to give a digital book gift in all major marketplaces, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore and Kobo.

Over at AppNewser, we showed you the step-by-step process of how to give free eBooks as gifts: “Give your friends a QR code link to a free Christmas book through Project Gutenberg … You can print the QR code at home and stick it in a holiday card, photograph or gift.”