Which Authors Do Subscription Services Benefit? (Digital Book World)
Subscriptions services may yet turn out to be a next game-changer in publishing, but for the moment that market is in a state of flux and expansion.
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Retailers Prep to Kick Off Independent Bookstore Day (PW)
Aside from simply celebrating small bookstores, one objective of the forthcoming Independent Bookstore Day, on May 2, is to bury a long-running narrative that the indies are dying.
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A Pay-What-You-Want Bookstore Could be Used for Many Things, But Discovering New Authors? No (Ink, Bits & Pixels)
A new bookstore called Openbooks has been getting a lot of attention over the past few weeks for its unusual business model.
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Are Romance Readers Lying to Themselves? (Dear Author)
Recently the documentary about romance produced by Laurie Kahn has generated a couple of positive articles about romance and romance readers. The lede for these two articles and most articles about romances today includes the statistic that romance is a billion dollar market.
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Kindle Daily Deal: The Forgotten Seamstress (and others)