Facebook is Adding Buy Buttons to Ads—Do You Think They Could be Used to Buy/Sell eBooks? (The Digital Reader)
Only a couple days after BitTorrent announced that they would be adding a payment option to BitTorrent Bundles, Facebook started letting a handful of advertisers add buy buttons to their ads.
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Is Kindle Unlimited Good for Indie Authors? (GoodeReader)
Amazon has officially launched Kindle Unlimited, a US based service that has 600,000 eBooks and audiobooks available at $9.99 per month. The Seattle based e-commerce giant is now competing against companies such as Oyster and Scribd, which have friendly terms for self-published authors. Is Kindle Unlimited viable for indie authors and is it worth it to make your titles available?
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Fifteen Unpublished Elmore Leonard Novels to be Sold Posthumously (GalleyCat)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson and The Orion Publishing Group will publish fifteen previously unpublished stories by the late author Elmore Leonard.
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Why Amazon’s ‘Netflix for Books’ Might be Doomed Before it Starts (The Verge)
Binge-watching is a phenomenon, binge-reading is homework.
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Kindle Daily Deals: The Wind is Not a River (and others)
