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ePublishing Week in Brief – April 29th to Mai 3rd, 2013
ePublishing Week in Brief – April 29th to Mai 3rd, 2013 Amazon makes Kindle app to make e-books accessible to the blind Amazon has released an app that makes it easier for the blind to read Kindle electronic books on iPhones. Advocates for blind people say it’s a significant step for a company that’s lagged other technology companies in making accessible products. Last December, under gray skies and a steady rain, dozens of visually-impaired people marched and chanted … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief – April 15th to 19th, 2013
ePublishing Week in Brief – April 15th to 19th, 2013 Amazon Studios’ first big show is no ‘House of Cards’ The first crop of fresh, original content from Amazon’s Hollywood arm is now ready-to-stream. But are the shows any good? Amazon Studios has been busy. Today, Jeff Bezos’s nascent TV and feature film studio, which lets the public evaluate and comment on scripts online, went live with eight adult comedy and six children’s pilots on Amazon Instant Video and … Read entire article »
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EPublishing Week in Brief – April 8th till 12th, 2013
EPublishing Week in Brief – April 8th till 12th, 2013 NOOK® Introduces NOOK Press™: Innovative New Publishing Platform for Authors Offers Authors Fast, Easy and Free Tools to Create, Collaborate and Publish the Highest Quality eBooks and Access to Millions of NOOK Customers New York, New York – – NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc., the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the launch of NOOK Press, a new … Read entire article »
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Amazon Gobbles Up GoodReads!
Amazon Gobbles Up GoodReads! In a move that is sure to further consolidate Amazon’s dominance of the on-line book retails, Amazon acquired GoodReads, a website well known by book lovers and writers alike and the leading social media site for book aficionados. GoodReads had already expanded to selling digital books from its site, thus threatening Amazon’s market share of the digital book market. As the price of the acquisition, which is expected to become final in the second quarter, was not disclosed, we are left to wonder how much Amazon is ready to pay to consolidate its dominance. Founded in 2007, Goodreads allows users to track books they want to read, read user reviews and start book clubs. The site now has more than 16 million members and hosts more than 30,000 book clubs. … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief – March 25th to 29th, 2012
ePublishing Week in Brief – March 25th to 29th, 2012 Goodreads Investor Jon Callaghan On Amazon Acquisition Of ‘Scrappy’ Startup GoodReads A social network for books,Goodreads, is being acquired byAmazon, the companies announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Goodreads is a website for people to review and rate books and follow friends and others with similar interests and discuss books with them. The site has 16 million members who have written more than 23 … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief – March 4th to 8th, 2013
ePublishing Week in Brief – March 4th to 8th, 2013 As Publishing Opportunities Grow, Funderstanding Extends Services to Media Beyond the Web Funderstanding is growing its publishing effort beyond its successful website. Funderstanding is now publishing for leading authors on a variety of platforms and media, connecting authors to more readers. Funderstanding is an ebook publishing partner company that provides expertise in epublishing, Internet marketing, and social media management. Funderstanding’s partnerships with authors allow the company to expand … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief –February 25th to March 1st, 2013
ePublishing Week in Brief –February 25th to March 1st, 2013 Book Keeping LOOK inside any book published since 1970 and you will find a number. But perhaps not for much longer. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN), invented in Britain in 1965, took off rapidly as an international system for classifying books, with 150 agencies (one per country, with two for bilingual Canada) now issuing the codes. Set up by retailers to ease their distribution and sales, … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief – February 18th to 22nd, 2013
ePublishing Week in Brief – February 18th to 22nd, 2013 Book publishing offers a variety of careers Books wouldn’t make it to libraries or our homes, if it weren’t for authors and book publishers. Book publishing is a viable career and business path, and has been successfully carried out by many men and women entrepreneurs and individuals, across the country. Fiction and non-fiction writers, and poets find their work journeying to bookstores, libraries, people’s bookshelves, and into the … Read entire article »
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Author Publishing Quizz – Joanne Sydney Lessner
Author Publishing Quizz - Joanne Sydney Lessner BIO: Joanne Sydney Lessner is the author of Pandora’s Bottle, a novel inspired by the true story of the world’s most expensive bottle of wine (Flint Mine Press), which was selected as one of Paperback Dolls’ top five books of 2010. The Temporary Detective (Dulcet Press, 2012) introduces Isobel Spice, aspiring actress and resourceful office temp turned amateur sleuth. The second book in the series, Bad Publicity, will be out in … Read entire article »
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The Next Frontier Of Digital Self-Publishing Has Been Breached
The Next Frontier Of Digital Self-Publishing Has Been Breached The ebook revolution began quietly in 2007 with the introduction of Kindle e-reader in 2007. 6 years later, e-books have completely changed the publishing industry landscape, gaining 22% of all book spending for the second quarter of 2012 according to a Bowker survey. On Amazon itself, the share of ebooks for the same period reached a whooping 27%. As the pioneer of the ebook revolution , Amazon has … Read entire article »
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