Fifty Shades of Monotony in erotic fiction cover design
My thanks for romantic/erotic fiction author and sexual activist Cecilia Tan for picking up this trend, and putting together such a great gallery of it. Twice. Not, unfortunately, that it's that hard...
The screw you ebook deal
Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two. Always at the forefront of the reversal of fortune is greed.
This...
Hachette rejects Amazon proposal to give Hachette authors 100% of e-book revenue
In the Amazon vs. Hachette feud, the PR moves and countermoves are coming out. Laura Hazard Owen has coverage at GigaOm and the Wall Street Journal also has a piece (paywalled;...
A reply to Futurebook: Up with disruption!
Over on Futurebook, Chris McCrudden has just published a piece entitled "Down with Disruption," taking issue with the applicability - and value - of the whole principle of digital disruption in...
Bertelsmann closes book clubs division
So says an article in Paid Content:
Book clubs—of the Book of the Month Club, “get 10 books for a dollar” type, not the Oprah variety—were once an essential revenue stream for...
Qualcomm, Simon & Schuster, Bonnier Technology Group and More to Speak at 2nd Annual...
From the press release:
Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS and NAPCO, publishers of Publishing Executive and Book ...
Wired Magazine for Android – a video
Android Central has a look at Wired Magazine's Android application.
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The other Amazon-publisher disagreement: print on demand
Everyone is paying attention to the e-book pricing fight against Amazon right now, but Bloomberg Businessweek reports there’s another disagreement going on between Amazon and the publishers behind the scenes that...
First Google Books sales numbers are in for Munsey’s
Here's a great article about the workings of Google Books from Munsey's point of view. I recommend you go over and read the whole thing. It's really the first...
Penguin’s ebook sales double
From The Bookseller:
Penguin's e-book sales have more than doubled in the first nine months of 2011, as parent Pearson reported an increase in total sales of 3% and operating...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
