Fri July 18 2014
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05:56 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News
http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-...rnings-report/
For those with short memories, this two year old column discusses the "pushback" campaign referenced in the extract: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...wn-on-drm.html There is way, way more at the source, highlighting how BPH ebooks constitute only 16% of Kindle's top 120K sellers, and how it turns out indie publishing works fine for less popular genres like litfic and non-fiction. Reach for the muchies; plenty of fireworks incoming in the next few days. |
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Wed July 16 2014
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03:40 PM by Top100EbooksRank in E-Book General | News
Image of the Google cache |
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Mon July 14 2014
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06:55 AM by Micah in E-Book General | News
Syncs location in book across devices, export annotations, user settings for font face, colors, themes, margins and more. Supports PDF and EPUB2 as well as Adobe DRM. Officially supports Win7 and above (though works on Vista in our tests) App can be downloaded free here: http://www.bluefirereader.com/windows-app.html Note that it does not contain UI for transferring files to tethered ereader devices. Happy Reading, |
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Sat July 12 2014
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead: E-Book General - News |
Thu July 10 2014
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06:58 AM by HarryT in E-Book General | News
More details on the BBC News web site at: |
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06:56 AM by owly in E-Book General | News
"A new discovery [at Oxford University]will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for applications such as 'smart' glasses, synthetic retinas, and foldable screens." |
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06:49 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...es-survey.html
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06:49 AM by Top100EbooksRank in E-Book General | News
The full letter “Dear XX, I wanted to ask your opinion about an idea we’ve had that would take authors out of the middle of the Hachette-Amazon dispute (actually it would be a big windfall for authors) and would motivate both Hachette and Amazon to work faster to resolve the situation. Our first choice would be to resolve a dispute like this through discussion only. We tried that already. We reached out to Hachette for the first time to discuss terms at the beginning of January for our contract which terminated in March. We heard nothing from them for three full months. We extended the contract into April under existing terms. Still nothing. In fact we got no conversation at all from Hachette until we started reducing our on-hand print inventory and reducing the discounts we offer customers off their list prices. Even since then, weeks have gone by while we waited for them to get back to us. After our last proposal to them on June 5th, they waited a week to respond at all, promising a counteroffer the following week. We are still waiting a month later. We agree that authors are caught in the middle while these negotiations drag on, and we’re particularly sensitive to the effect on debut and midlist authors. But Hachette’s unresponsiveness and unwillingness to talk until we took action put us in this position, and unless Hachette dramatically changes their negotiating tempo, this is going to take a really long time. Here’s what we’re thinking of proposing to them: • If Hachette agrees, for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100% of the sales price of every Hachette e-book we sell. Both Amazon and Hachette would forego all revenue and profit from the sale of every e-book until an agreement is reached. • Amazon would also return to normal levels of on-hand print inventory, return to normal pricing in all formats, and for books that haven’t gone on sale yet, reinstate pre-orders. Here’s an example: if we sell a book at $9.99, the author would get the full $9.99, many multiples of what they would normally get. We can begin implementing this arrangement in 72 hours if Hachette agrees. We haven’t sent this offer to Hachette yet — we’re sending this to a few authors and agents to get feedback first. What do you think? Would this be helpful, especially for midlist and debut authors? Can we talk on the phone later today or tomorrow once you’ve had a chance to digest? Thanks and look forward to talking.” Statements from Hachette and Amazon Hachette: “Amazon has just sent us a brief proposal. We invite Amazon to withdraw the sanctions they have unilaterally imposed, and we will continue to negotiate in good faith and with the hope of a swift conclusion. We believe that the best outcome for the writers we publish is a contract with Amazon that brings genuine marketing benefits and whose terms allow Hachette to continue to invest in writers, marketing, and innovation. We look forward to resolving this dispute soon and to the benefit of the writers who have trusted their books to us.” Amazon: “We call baloney. Hachette is part of a $10 billion global conglomerate. It wouldn’t be ‘suicide.* They can afford it. What they’re really making clear is that they absolutely want their authors caught in the middle of this negotiation because they believe it increases their leverage. All the while, they are stalling and refusing to negotiate, despite the pain caused to their authors. Our offer is sincere. They should take us up on it.” *Hachette previously described Amazon’s proposal as “suicidal” in a statement to the Wall Street Journal; the story has since been updated and that reference removed. |
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