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Fri January 03 2014

Death of Elizabeth Jane Howard

07:39 AM by Bookpossum in E-Book General | News

I was sorry to read of the death of Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Guardian article

[ 6 replies ]


Sun December 29 2013

Sherlock Holmes ruled to be (mostly) in the public domain

05:14 AM by Greg Anos in E-Book General | News

Here's the latest copyright ruling on Sherlock Holmes and the US copyright.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101298769

Welcome to the looking glass world of American Copyright...

[ 191 replies ]


Sat December 28 2013

MobileRead Week in Review: 12/21 - 12/28

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Gosh we've talked a lot this week. Here's your weekly round up of MobileRead's events.

Miscellaneous - Announcements


Wed December 25 2013

Merry Christmas

12:07 PM by pilotbob in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Merry Christmas

The moderation team here at Mobileread.com would like to wish everyone a holiday filled with love, joy and peace. We appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you for making this the single best place for information about reading digital content anywhere.

[ 10 replies ]


Sat December 21 2013

MobileRead Week in Review: 12/14 - 12/21

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Missed some of our big stories this week? Time to catch up:

E-Book General - News


Fri December 20 2013

Smashwords is now distributing to Scribd

09:16 AM by John Carroll in E-Book General | News

This is awesome news! I've used Scribd a little bit, but stopped because I have limited time to tend to all the channels possible. Distributing to them through Smashwords makes me very happy, almost fuzzy even.

I'm also thrilled about the 1 year subscription! Wow!

http://blog.smashwords.com/2013/12/s...agreement.html

The meat of the agreement for authors:

For Scribd’s retail store, the terms are identical to our standard retail agreements. Smashwords authors and publishers will set the price, there will be no discounting, and authors will earn 60% of the list price on all sales. The first 10% of the book, from the cover image forward, will be the free preview sample, similar to most retailers.

For Scribd’s subscription ebook service, authors will earn 60% of the list price on all qualifying reads, and here they’ve added a cool twist. With subscription services, the author or publisher earns credit for a full read when the reader reaches a certain trigger point, measured by the percentage of the book that is read. The first 10% of the book is a free sample, similar to a retailer. Excluding the sample, once the reader reads an additional 20% of the book, a full sale is triggered and the Smashwords author earns 60% of the list price, up to a maximum of about $12.50 per read. In practice, what this means for most fiction writers is that after the reader reads more than the first 30% of your book, it triggers a full sale. For some non-fiction writers, where your book’s content is more likely to be read non-sequentially, it means if the reader starts their reading deeper in the book at Chapter 10, a sale could be triggered after reading only 20% of the book (As an aside, this underscores the importance of authors building fully functional navigation into their ebooks so that all their book's content is easily discoverable. To learn how to upgrade your ebook's navigation, check out my recent blog post and video, How to Add Navigation to a Smashwords Ebook).

Unlike any other subscription service or retailer, Scribd has sweetened the pot by added a secondary sales trigger for the author by providing credit for partial reads. If the subscriber reads 5% more than the first free 10% but less than the additional 20% necessary to generate a full sale, this triggers a credit for partial read. For every ten partial reads, which Scribd calls a “browse,” the author earns credit for a full sale. Since most people read fiction from page one forward, this means if 10 people read just over the first 15% of your book but less than 30%, it’ll generate a full sale. For non-fiction, where readers are more likely to read non-sequentially, they can read 5% of the middle of the book and trigger a browse credit.

[ 2 replies ]


Tue December 17 2013

Kindle, Today, $49 (US Only, Special Offers version)

06:41 AM by eping in E-Book General | News

Please see the home page of Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/

Maybe only in the US?

[ 15 replies ]


Amazon's No. 1 seller for 2013 is Inferno by Dan Brown

04:42 AM by JoHunt in E-Book General | News

A year after "Fifty Shades of Grey" overwhelmed best-seller lists, book buyers were seeking different kinds of thrills.

Dan Brown 's latest Robert Langdon caper, "Inferno," was Amazon.com's No. 1 seller for 2013, the online retailer announced Monday. Khaled Hosseini was second with "And the Mountains Echoed." The best-sellers for kids and teens were Veronica Roth's "Allegiant" and Rick Riordan's "The Houses of Hades."

Other major hits on Amazon.com were "The Cuckoo's Calling," a crime story J.K. Rowling wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, and John Grisham's "Sycamore Row." Sylvia Day's "Entwined With You" was one of the few works of erotic fiction to place high on Amazon's list. Nonfiction favorites included Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" and "Things That Matter," an anthology of essays by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.

http://news.yahoo.com/dan-brown-39-3...140126654.html

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