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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 »
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Are ebooks overpriced or not?
The recent lawsuit filed against Apple and five of the six largest publishing houses by the Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman for illegally fixing prices of e-books raises the question of what does e-book prices include. Some are arguing that the overhead of paper, printing, packaging, shipping, storage, and retail display effectively disappearing for ebooks, this significant lowering of the costs should be reflected in the price of the e-books. Publishers answer that ebooks incur new costs … Read entire article »
Filed under: Journal, The ePublishing market
ePublishing Week in Brief – 1st to 5th of August 2011
Is Facebook considering becoming a Publisher? At first glance, Facebook recent acquisition of Push Pop Press, the San Francisco based digital publishing platform start-up that developed Al Gore’s e-book “OurChoice” for iPad, seems to indicate it is taking the publishing route. However, the avowed aim of the acquisition, according to Push Pop Press, is that ” the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief – 18th to 22d of July 2011
Harry Potter’s virtual magic Turns Google into a Goblin In Harry Potter’s world, goblins are bankers. With the deal between Google and J.K. Rowling announced last Thursday, Google will hold exclusive payments rights for all Pottermore.com purchases. In other words all products sold on Pottermore will be purchased solely through Google Checkout. Amazon or Paypal will stay firmly grounded in the Muggle world and will not gain a cent from Pottermore.com upcoming bounty. While the Goblin – … Read entire article »
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ePublishing Week in Brief : 27th of June – 1st of July
Another writer passes one million sales for self-published eBooks. After selling over 200 000 eBooks in May, John Locke has now joined the club of over a million sales. A thriller writer, who share his ePublishing tactics on in his book How I Sold 1 Million Books in 5 Weeks! he intends to publish a new novel next month. J.K.Rowling turns self-publisher: J.K.Rowling released her decision to self-publish Harry Potter books directly from her website, therefore cashing in … Read entire article »
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eBook Formatters
Now the book is edited, with a nice cover at the ready, it just needs to be formatted. There are a number of various formats for eBooks, such as .EPUB, .PDF, .RTF, .PDB, .MOBI, LRF, TXT, online HTML and Javascript to name a few. Each support accepts one or some of these formats but not all of them. Sounds like an insurmountable barrier to those of us not technologically apt wordsmiths. Luckily, there are a lot of … Read entire article »
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