The link below is to an article that takes a look at why we miss so many ‘typos’ in our own writing.
For more visit:
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/wuwt-typos/
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Goodreads Choice Awards 2014
The link below is to an article reporting on the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2014.
For more visit:
http://ebookfriendly.com/goodreads-choice-awards-2014/
Marketing on Goodreads
The link below is to an article that looks at what you need to know in order to market your book/ebook on Goodreads.
For more visit:
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2014/11/marketing-your-book-on-goodreads/
Why Are You A Reader?
2014 Book Shimmy Awards
Christmas Gift Ideas – Books
J. K. Rowling Writing More Harry Potter Material
The link below is to an article that reports on J.K. Rowling writing more Harry Potter material for release on the Pottermore website, starting from the 12th of December 2014.
For more visit:
http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/jk_rowling_to_release_new_harr.html
On the Books: Google appears set to win case against Authors Guild
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft call off their Nook partnership
In the middle of yet another disappointing earnings report Thursday, Barnes & Noble announced that it’s terminating the strategic partnership it formed with Microsoft in 2012. That partnership had combined Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college businesses into a division called Nook Media, into which Microsoft invested $300 million.
Such termination will allow the Company to continue its rationalization of the NOOK Digital business and enhances Barnes & Noble’s operational and strategic flexibility. The termination also relieves Microsoft of any obligation to continue to fund support and other payments set forth in the commercial agreement between the partners.
Barnes & Noble is also buying out Microsoft’s stake in Nook Media.
When the partnership was formed in 2012, the idea was that [company]Microsoft[/company] would help finance Nook’s international expansion and that Nook apps and content would be loaded onto Windows devices, thus ridding Microsoft of…
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Amazon’s Bezos thinks ebooks made the book industry healthier
“The book industry is in better shape than it ever has been and it’s due to ebooks,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told an audience on Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview that addressed the company’s drone plans, its campus culture and its indifference to pain of short-term shareholders.
Speaking at a BusinessInsider event in New York, Bezos downplayed [company]Amazon’s[/company] recent high-profile spat with publisher Hachette as a run-of-the-mill fight with a supplier, adding that it’s the essential job of any retailer to fight for the best price for its customers.
As for the publishing industry and its authors, Bezos argued that $30 is too high a price for books, and that lower prices will lead to more readers, which will in turn benefit everyone. And in a remark that may have been intended to head off antitrust arguments, he urged people to consider book prices in the context of a larger entertainment market.
“Books don’t…
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