The link below is to an article that considers whether it is possible to start reading too young.
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http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/can-learning-to-read-too-young-backfire/97662
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Apple: 1 million new iBooks customers each week since iOS 8 launch
Apple’s iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, which launched to the public this fall, come with iBooks pre-installed. That decision has paid off: iBooks has averaged one million new customers every week since mid-September.
Keith Moerer, the director of iBooks at Apple, revealed that statistic in a rare public appearance at the Digital Book World conference in New York City on Thursday. It’s startling to anyone who dismisses Apple as an also-ran in the ebook market and might encourage publishers and authors who haven’t focused on the platform to begin doing so. (And that was probably one of the main reasons that Apple agreed to appear at the conference.)
Moerer also spoke about other reasons that iBooks downloads are increasing. Since the launch of the larger-screened iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, “We are seeing more of our book sales starting to come from the phone.”
Though neither Moerer nor…
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Oyster 2015
The link below is to an article that looks at the position of Oyster in 2015.
For more visit:
http://publishingperspectives.com/2015/01/oyster-starts-2015-off-two-big-announcements/
Beneath the Ink
The link below is to an article that takes a look at ‘Beneath the Ink,’ a publisher of enhanced ebooks.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/enhanced-ebook/beneath-ink-enhanced-ebooks-done-right/
Amazon exec: Here’s why it pays to make your ebooks exclusive to us
Amazon’s ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, has attracted criticism recently, with some self-published authors complaining that the service devalues their work and chafing at the requirement that they make their ebooks exclusive to Amazon in order to participate.
But Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s VP of Kindle Content, suggested at the Digital Book World conference in New York on Wednesday that the vast majority of authors participating are satisfied with Kindle Unlimited — and he said that the program is helping them achieve earnings that have doubled since the program’s launch in July.
Authors who want their books to appear in Kindle Unlimited have to enroll in KDP Select, a program that requires them to make their ebooks exclusive to Amazon for three-month periods. “Every month authors have renewed availability of titles on KDP Select in excess of 95 percent before and after the launch of Kindle Unlimited,” Grandinetti said — suggesting that they…
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On the Books: Netflix for books expands
United Kingdom: Print Book Sales Fall
The link below is to an article that looks at falling book sales in the United Kingdom – no surprise there I wouldn’t have thought.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/13/sales-printed-books-fell-150m–five-years
Publisher Macmillan Signs On With E-Book Subscription Services Oyster And Scribd
Big-5 publisher Macmillan adds its ebooks to Scribd and Oyster
Another large publisher has decided that ebook subscription services are worth testing out: Macmillan on Tuesday became the third big-5 publisher to make ebooks available on Oyster and Scribd, following HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.
Macmillan is adding about 1,000 titles to both services. Macmillan CEO John Sargent had said in December that the publisher would test ebook subscriptions on “backlist books, and mostly with titles that are not well represented at bricks and mortar retail stores,” as a way of battling Amazon’s dominance in the ebook market.
Oyster and Scribd are vying for dominance in the ebook subscription market right now, alongside [company]Amazon[/company], which launched its competing Kindle Unlimited service over the summer. All three services are slightly less than $10 a month. So far, big-5 publishers are refusing to participate in Kindle Unlimited (like Macmillan, they see no reason to give Amazon a larger share of their ebook sales than…
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Not My Review: The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
The link below is to a book review of ‘The Heat of the Day,’ by Elizabeth Bowen.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/12/100-best-novels-elizabeth-bowen-heat-of-the-day-blitz
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