Bowker reports in their October 2019 PDF publication, “Self Publishing in the United States, 2013-2018: Print and Ebooks,” that independently published books with ISBNs (not even counting those without!) have... View Article
Amazon has made it ridiculously easy to embed a book preview on your website. It’s now a one-two-three step process. Simply find the book on their site, click the “embed”... View Article
According to Nielsen, book sales have risen again in 2015, after dropping in 2012. But the real question is why? Several articles published in the last week include charts showing that book... View Article
Somehow I must have missed the news… And in case you, my reader, did too, I’m sharing it! Amazon is selling their 7-inch Kindle Fire for only $49.99 (and I’m... View Article
Oyster, an eBook subscription service that allowed subscribers access to unlimited books for a low monthly fee, is set to close in the near future due to resistance from publishers,... View Article
For those authors who choose to participate in Kindle Select, the payment arrangement is changing. Instead of paying based on the number of times a book is borrowed, they will... View Article
It’s possible that there will be a color “regular” Kindle in the (near?) future, as Amazon has just purchased Liquavista, an e-ink company with color technology, from Samsung. As usual,... View Article
Amazon has introduced the Kindle to its Brazil site, making available to customers there more than 1500 free Portuguese books (they are free to everyone else, as well). They have... View Article
Had I been posting this over the weekend, I would have been stomping my feet about Amazon requiring the display of advertising on the new Kindle Fire devices that are... View Article
Amazon.com announced that their customers in the United Kingdom are buying 114 eBooks for every 100 print books sold on their site. This is probably attributed to the lower cost... View Article