I’ve lost track of the number of articles, online and off, that try to decide if eReader X or eBook reading app Y will be the Kindle Killer. Meanwhile, it seems to me that Amazon just keeps pushing its eBook envelope and selling more eBooks through its Kindle Store. Including to people who don’t even [...]
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June 30, 2010
Get Your Higher Kindle Royalties
As announced some time ago, today marks the availability of the new 70% royalty structure for eBooks being sold in the Kindle Store through the Digital Text Platform (the way most small publishers have to do it). However, and this is important, IT IS NOT AUTOMATIC! You must take action to make it happen. Here’s [...]
December 30, 2009
Do Christmas Kindle Book Sales Hint at Sea Change?
So, the other day Amazon put out a press release that made a big fuss over the fact that the sales of Kindle books exceeded sales for print books…on Christmas day itself. On just that one day. The publishing Twitterverse and blogarama has been buzzing as though Amazon had announced it would no longer even [...]
December 21, 2009
Big Publishers: Stop Whining!
I don’t know about you but I am really tired of all the whining, complaining, and teeth-gnashing we’re hearing from the mid-size and big publishers these days on the subject of e-book pricing. If they hadn’t had their collective heads firmly up-and-locked for so long, they could have seen this coming and taken a proactive [...]
December 3, 2009
B&N and Sony Just Don’t Get It
As anyone who has been reading my blog probably knows, I have never been reluctant to criticize Amazon when they show corporate stupidity. But I am also ready to admit when they seem to get it right. The history of the Kindle e-book reader has been filled with both but, in general, Amazon has shown [...]
