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An eBook Reader is a Great Gift for Book Worms
href=”http://www.epublishabook.com/?attachment_id=6730″ rel=”attachment wp-att-6730″> An eBook Reader is a Great Gift for Book Worms (via 21C Woman) Books have always been a popular gift, as they cater to so many genres, but now there is the possibility of buying an eBook reader. This can be carried around in a pocket or bag and your chosen reader will store tens of thousands of full electronic novels. Even smart and Android phones will allow… … Read entire article »
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Kindle Serials is the next brick in Amazon’s walled garden
Kindle Serials is the next brick in Amazon’s walled garden (via Tools of Change for Publishing) The Kindle Serials program was one of the more interesting aspects of Amazon’s big press event a couple of weeks ago. We’ve done a few serial publishing experiments at O’Reilly (e.g., Every Book Is a Startup and Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto) and we’ve confirmed that this approach can help… … Read entire article »
Filed under: The ePublishing market
Amazon and Book Review Ownership
Amazon and Book Review Ownership Guest Post by Shawn Lamb Did you know that once you post a review on Amazon, they own the rights to the review? And they prevent authors from using the review for promotional purposes? That’s right. Even to use an excerpt, authors have to receive permission from Amazon! According to Amazon’s Community Guidelines for Your Profile and Conduct: We reserve the right to restrict or remove any and all uses or Content that … Read entire article »
Filed under: Promotions, The ePublishing market
Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3
Amazon’s Brand of Censorship – Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 3 Now, the week-end is over, the full implication of the dangers included in violating Amazon Content Guidelines have fully sunk in, it is time to examine them with total attention. So, without further ado, let’s broach the fifth and last item on the agenda. (please note that the featured image is a Print Screen of these Amazon content guidelines as of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Promotion, Resources, The Legal Corner
Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 2
Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author – Part 2 Back to part 1 – Onto Part 3 Now onto to the slightly more disputable item, the confidentiality… 3. Revealing confidential information If you ever wondered why it is so difficult to find out statistics about sales figures by self-published writers, here it is, underlined below, in an extract of Amazon KDP Terms and Conditions. 7 Confidentiality. You will not, without our express, prior written permission: (a) issue any … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Promotion, Resources, The Legal Corner
Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1
Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1 So your book is now finished and up on Amazon shelves and you are keen to push the sales. Yet, better beware of using tactics that are in violation with the Terms and Condition of Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, as this would effectively give Amazon grounds to ban you for life from using their services as an author. As 80% of online book sales typically … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Promotion, Resources, The Legal Corner
ePublishing week in Brief – 17th to 21st of October 2011
overview of Publishers Launch Frankfurt Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal Amazon.com has taught readers that they do not need bookstores. Now it is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers. Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are … Read entire article »
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10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle
10 Things Amazon should correct in the Kindle Originally posted by Guido Henkel· I am a huge fan of the Kindle. Always been. I owned a first-generation Kindle and in my mind, the Kindle was every bit as revolutionary a product as the iPhone. A game changer. However, as great as it is, even the Kindle is not perfect. I am not talking here about buttons being too small or somesuch thing. I am talking about the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Journal
D.B. Henson – From Selfpublished to Agented to Big6 in Record Time
D.B. Henson is the author of Deed to Death, a suspense novel that she originally self-published on Kindle Direct Publish. The book landed on the bestsellers list and caught the attention of Noah Lukeman, president of Lukeman Literary Management. Three weeks after he first contacted D.B. Henson, Lukeman sold the book to Simon & Schuster. Deed to Death remained on Amazon’s bestsellers list for over eight months and made Amazon’s Best of 2010 Customer Favorites … Read entire article »
Filed under: Authors
Amazon Cracks Down on Spam
Last Monday, we published a post about spam on Kindle Direct Publish. This is a problem that had been ongoing for a few months now and getting worse. It seems Amazon is now tackling the problem. This week, it cracked down on duplicate ebooks in its Kindle Store, pulling titles because they “diminish the experience for customers…” which is why Amazon has decided to rid itself of “undifferentiated or barely differentiated versions of e-books.” Here is a … Read entire article »
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