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Wall Street Journal does the numbers on self publishing
A slightly older but insightful article from the Wall Street Journal explains which authors are making money from self publishing. Likening the situation to a “tale of two cities”, the article suggests...
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2012 – predictions for the publishing industry
Futurebook.net has asked a series of bloggers and commentators for their predictions on trends that will affect the publishing industry in 2012. Some of the forecasts are vague, some obvious, some...
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How and why US university students buy etextbooks and textbooks, general US...
Insights on volume and behaviour of US university students in buying e-textbooks were presented at the 2012 DigitalBookWorld conference in late January. A report presented at the conference suggested...
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Text – A trade publisher making the digital transition
Text Publishing is an independent trade publisher based in Melbourne. They publish a very broad range of fiction and non-fiction books, both international and local, for adults and young adults. We...
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Getting the most from US ebook sales (including Amazon): Overcoming the...
US withholding tax can present a sizeable cost for non-US authors and publishers selling through online retailers like Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble and Lulu. Minimising what can be a 30%...
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OverDrive aquires Booki.sh
OverDrive, Inc., a leading global distributor of ebooks and audiobooks, yesterday announced it has acquired Australian ebook company Booki.sh. OverDrive will integrate Booki.sh HTML5 and EPUB reading...
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Questions to ask before committing to any epublishing service
Jane Freidman provides this very practical post with ten questions to consider before committing to any epublishing service. Written from a small US publisher and/or author perspective, the questions...
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Is Amazon.com a not-for-profit company?
Have you ever wondered how Amazon.com can to offer its goods and services at such low prices (so low in fact that they are often selling at a loss) whilst at the same time make the huge corporate...
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How your eBook is reading you and what this means for publishers and authors
Digital books are facilitating a shift in the way we read, tracking its users reading habits and turning reading into something measurable and quasi-public according to the Wall Street Journal. The...
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Australian publishers selling eBooks direct
Last month, Copyright Agency surveyed its members on a range of issues including their experiences with digital publishing. The digital publishing section of the survey was answered by 90 commercial...
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