Kindle Unlimited, Market Scrying, and Sales Cycles (The Digital Reader)
Over the past couple months many authors have pointed to Kindle Unlimited and complained that Amazon’s 5 month old ebook subscription service is harming their sales, but there is growing evidence that this is not the case.
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The Best-Selling Books of All Time, According to Wikipedia (Book Riot)
How many copies do you think the Harry Potter series has sold, total? How many copies of The DaVinci Code do you think have been sold?
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Digital Magazines Now Qualify for the Pulitzer Prize (GoodeReader)
The Pulitzer Prize for journalism has now been extended to print and digital magazines. This category now contains not only magazines, but also feature length and investigative reporting for newspapers too.
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As the Retail Landscape Changes, Payments Hardware is Scrambling (GigaOM)
Three months ago, Apple Pay kicked off a new flurry of excitement about contactless payments. Now the retail industry is in a race to catch up, which is why in the last week we’ve seen a lot of new point-of-sale equipment debut, all geared to process these new types of transactions.
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Kindle Daily Deal: White Hot (and others)
