Tag: e-books

by Julie Keck

1. The government shutdown is terrible for transparency (Matt Berman & Patrick Reis / National Journal) 2. How Twitter’s ad business went from zero to $500 million in less than four years (Peter Kafka / AllThingsD) 3. Circa wants to be a mobile wire service for breaking news – one that learns from what you [...] more »

by Julie Keck

1. Social networks in a battle for the second screen (Vindu Goel & Brian Stelter / New York Times) 2. Are personal essays the future of digital journalism? (Aneya Fernando / 10,000 Words) 3. Who are the most social publishers on the web? (Ami Sedghi / Guardian) 4. Columbia University’s piracy.lab explores the online world [...] more »

by Zach C. Cohen

Maybe you’ve always had an idea for a book but were too daunted by the traditional gatekeepers of agents and publishers. Well now you can dust off the manuscript and get read to publish, because the growth of self-publishing services and social media makes it easier than ever to self-publish your book. But whether you [...] more »

by Jeremy Greenfield

The rise of self-publishing as a viable economic model for authors has started to disrupt the book publishing business — and nobody has benefited more than so-called “hybrid authors.” Allow me to explain. In 2011, self-publishing is thought to have drained roughly $100 million in revenue from the traditional trade publishing business — a drop [...] more »

by Julie Keck

1. Microsoft to buy Nokia’s device business in deal worth over $7 billion (AllThingsD) 2. CBS returns, triumphant, to cable box (NYT) 3. Jeffrey Bezos, the Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a ‘new golden era’ at the paper (Washington Post) 4. Vimeo starts funding indie films to broaden its on demand platform (PaidContent) 5. [...] more »

by Deanna Utroske

The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller list tracks e-book sales ranking and price data across six major e-book retailers with the goal of providing the most accurate picture of which e-books are most often purchased by consumers and at what price point. The full methodology is available here. This week the average price of a best-selling e-book on the [...] more »

by Deanna Utroske

The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller list tracks e-book sales ranking and price data across six major e-book retailers with the goal of providing the most accurate picture of which e-books are most often purchased by consumers and at what price point. The full methodology is available here. When news that Robert Galbraith is in fact a penname for [...] more »

by Carla King

There are many ways to sell your self-published print books and e-books, and the associated fees and royalties vary wildly. The highest margins come when you sell from your own online store. You can employ an e-book aggregator/distributor, or upload the e-books yourself to each online retailer. Don’t forget to get into the new (for [...] more »

by Jeremy Greenfield

The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller list tracks e-book sales ranking and price data across six major e-book retailers with the goal of providing the most accurate picture of which e-books are most often purchased by consumers and at what price point. The full methodology is available here. Self-published authors made a big comeback on [...] more »

by Jeremy Greenfield

The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller list tracks e-book sales ranking and price data across five major e-book retailers with the goal of providing the most accurate picture of which e-books are most often purchased by consumers and at what price point. The full methodology is available here. Big publishers and big-name authors are once [...] more »
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