It’s Amazon’s world, we just live in it
Discovered another pair of posts with interesting, almost complementary things to say today about Amazon, from opposite sides of the fence. It’s interesting and instructive to look at them both together....
Indie bookstores less threatened by e-books than by ‘walkable cities’ pushes?
High rental costs hurt independent bookstores. Instead of focusing on e-books and their impact on brick-and-mortar bookstores, Publishers Weekly cites the ability of chain stores to leverage their higher credit rating in negotiating rent. But...
Morning Roundup: Fanfiction addiction. Amazon Publishing set to expand and more
Amazon Publishing to Expand in US, UK, Germany (The Digital Reader)
According to Jeff Belle, the VP of Amazon Publishing, they’re planning to hire dozens of more people and vastly expand their...
Kindle DX on sale for $299
The normal price is $379, so it's a savings of $80. You can find it on the Amazon site here. It's the latest unit with the new E Ink Pearl...
How did the big publishers fare in Amazon’s “Big Deal” sale?
From July 18-27, Amazon ran its second big ebook sale of the year, only this time it managed to get the Big 6 publishers on board with titles. Now that the...
Could the Nook Color trounce the not-so-colorful Kindle?
Could the Nook topple the Kindle in the e-reader wars? That’s the question posed by Kit Eaton in a recent Fast Company article wondering if the Nook Color’s spiffy color screen...
Copyright termination deadline approaches, possible benefits to backlist republishers on the horizon
The last few months have seen the importance of backlist e-book titles grow significantly, most notably with Philip Wylie’s abortive Amazon publishing deal that caused a 15-minute uproar in the...
Morning Roundup: Children and touchscreens, Amazon good for literature, Konrath on Patterson, and more
Researchers Find Children Play with Touchscreens More than Traditional Toys (Teachers with Apps) Researchers find children play with touchscreens more than traditional toys - The following claim was...
Few boos for Boos in Frankfurt Book Fair warning of Amazon oligopoly
Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, took the opportunity in his opening address for this year's edition of the book trade's biggest jamboree to warn against the dangers of...
Self-published authors take spots 1 and 5 on the Kindle bestsellers in the UK
From The Bookseller:
Self-published crime writer Kerry Wilkinson claimed the top spot in the UK Kindle bestseller chart for the last quarter of 2011, Amazon has revealed, as speculation mounts...
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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...
