Six Years Later, How Apple Keeps the iPhone Chugging Along (GigaOM)
Apple has found ways to keep the iPhone growing in emerging and also established markets. But it’s coming at the cost of slipping profit margins.
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Self-Published Author Lands Book of the Week Promotion at Apple’s iBookstore (GalleyCat)
Smashwords author JD Nixon scored the coveted “Book of the Week” promotion at Apple’s iBookstore this week, making the first book of the author’s Heller series free for a week for iBooks readers.
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Penguin Random House Dabbles in Direct Sales with New Book Country Bookstore (Digital Book World)
Penguin Random House’s manuscript workshopping and ebook publishing community site Book Country has launched a series of new features, including an ebook store where members and general readers can purchase ebooks published through the site’s publishing platform.
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More Readers, Authors Than Ever Are on Goodreads (Good e-Reader)
Book discovery and recommendation site Goodreads announced on its blog this week that it has grown to 20 million users, up from 10 million less than one year ago. The site, which lets readers review books they’ve read, participate in book discussion and virtual events, and organize shelves of books both new and classic that they plan to read, was bought by Amazon earlier this year, although not much has changed for this site’s day to day operations.
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Kindle Daily Deals: “Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Precious Little Life” by Bryan Lee O’Malley (and 3 others)
