Fri May 08 2015
EU plans to allow lower VAT rate on ebooks |
04:25 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News According to a report at Ink, Bits & Pixels, The EU Commission (having just spent the past four years suing France and Luxembourg for reducing the rate of VAT they charge on ebooks) plan to introduce changes to the VAT rules to allow countries to charge their lower rate of VAT on ebooks! Unfortunately, it seems likely that it'll be some years before the rule changes actually get implemented. |
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Author Earnings sheds light on ebook Agency redux |
04:19 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News Author Earnings.com just dropped their quarterly "state of the US ebook market" report. http://authorearnings.com/report/may...rnings-report/ As usual, the source has clear, very large charts and the raw data. Plus lots of analysis and insight. Summary:
Key numbers: BPH prices up 17% over the last 15 months. Interesting factoid: Market share of other tradpubs (small/medium publisher, Amazon Publishing) has remained constant. The net shift has been BPH to Indies. Ominous note:
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Sat May 02 2015
Ruth Rendell dies aged 85 |
11:13 PM by alanHd in E-Book General | News |
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MobileRead Week in Review: 04/25 - 05/02 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review We know, you're busy. You'd like nothing more than to keep up with the witty kids at MobileRead live and in real-time but, it's tough. We understand. Here is our weekly round-up: E-Book General - News E-Book Readers - Alternative Devices |
Fri May 01 2015
Free ebooks for poor low income kids |
05:07 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News From NBCNEWS:
No mention if it's 10,000 titles or total copies. Of course, kids with the necessary hardware already have access to a lot more than 10,000 titles. |
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Wed April 29 2015
Publisher behaving badly |
09:06 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News From the Guardian:
Most, interestingly, the book has sold 500,000 print copies and 700,000 ebook copies since 2012. (Interesting ratio) No royalties received since 2012. The author and agent only recently noticed it.
Hugo Gernsback would be proud of these guys:
Those boys didn't just rip-off a bunch of naive authors (check the source for further details and quotes) but a giant multinational. That takes guts. Of course, it *is* Hachette, not the Randy Penguin, but still. They should sell their movie rights to Mel Brooks if they get away with it. |
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Tue April 28 2015
NoteSlate is back! (Or is it?) |
08:29 PM by Jmirko in E-Book Readers | Alternative Devices Nate at Ink, Bits and Pixels wrote earlier this week about the return of the NoteSlate: http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...will-cost-199/ The updated website is here: The question is: should we believe them this time? These Czech guys already pranked us in 2011... If anyone pre-ordered, let us know your experience! Once they take your money, it gets a bit more serious... |
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Sat April 25 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 04/18 - 04/25 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Bite-sized MobileRead for your weekend pleasure: E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |