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/
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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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Penguin Hatches A Cloud Reader For Pelican Books
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Apple’s $450M plan to settle ebook price-fixing gets green light
Apple could begin paying out $400 million worth of cash and ebook credits to consumers by the end of the year, after a federal judge approved an unusual deal related to an Apple-led conspiracy to fix the price of ebooks.
On Friday, Reuters reported that U.S. Distrct Judge Denise Cote approved a settlement reached this summer under which Apple agreed to pay $400 million to consumers and $50 million to lawyers.
Those numbers are conditional, however, on an appeals court upholding a 2013 verdict in the price-fixing case, in which Apple was found to have colluded with five big publishers to fix the price of ebooks. The appeals court will hear Apple’s challenge on December 15, but few expect that the court will disturb the verdict.
In the event the appeals court does send back the verdict to be reconsidered, Apple will instead pay only $50 million to consumers plus $20 million to the lawyers instead.
The unusual…
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In Amazon/Hachette deal, ebook agency pricing is a winner
In the deal that Amazon and Hachette Book Group finally reached Thursday after months of bitter negotiations, we don’t really know which side “won,” if one side did. But one survivor — perhaps surprisingly — was agency pricing for ebooks, the practice through which the publisher sets an ebook’s price and the retailer takes a commission.
Hachette said in a letter to authors and agents Thursday:
The new agreement delivers considerable benefits. It gives us full responsibility for the consumer prices of our ebooks. This approach, known as the Agency model, protects the value of our authors’ content, while allowing the publisher to change ebook prices dynamically to maximize sales.
That wasn’t a foregone conclusion. In 2010, [company]Amazon[/company] was vehemently opposed to agency pricing, though it ultimately capitulated. Agency pricing was at the heart of the of the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple and book publishers in 2012, in which…
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Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices
Amazon and book publisher Hachette Book Group have finally reached a deal in the negotiations that have been going on since May. For months, Amazon removed pre-orders on Hachette titles, shipped them with delays and would not discount them.
The new agreement, announced in a joint press release Thursday, covers both print and ebooks.
“This is great news for writers,” Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch said in a statement. “The new agreement will benefit Hachette authors for years to come. It gives Hachette enormous marketing capability with one of our most important bookselling partners.”
“We are pleased with this new agreement as it includes specific financial incentives for Hachette to deliver lower prices, which we believe will be a great win for readers and authors alike,” David Naggar, VP of Kindle, said in a statement.
When the new ebook terms take place in early 2015, “Hachette will have responsibility for setting consumer prices of its…
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Glose Is A New Ebook Reader That Turns Reading Into A Social Experience
Oyster Updates
The links below are to articles reporting on the latest news from Oyster.
For more visit:
– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/oyster-adds-user-curated-ebook-recommendations-to-drive-discovery/
– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/oyster-goes-social-for-discovery/
The Future of Enhanced Ebooks
The links below are to articles that look at the future of enhanced ebooks.
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– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/does-the-closure-of-atavist-books-signal-the-end-of-enhanced-ebooks/
– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/lights-out-for-enhanced-ebooks/
– http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/resuscitating-enhanced-ebooks/
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