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End of a year, and perhaps the end of a stage of the ebook transition

December 31, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 59 Comments

The year ends with a front-page New York Times story reporting the consternation in the indie author community at the current state of their commercial lives at Amazon. The proximate cause of distress is seen to be the Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription service, through which indie authors are receiving considerably less compensation per read than […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Bob Mayer, Digital Reader, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Nate Hoffelder, NY Times

DBW lets us look at ebook bestsellers by price, and things are revealed

August 20, 2012 by Jess 17 Comments

Digital Book World unveiled its new ebook bestseller lists this morning. They put this effort together — I program the annual January conference for them; this work has almost nothing to do with me (although I’m over-generously credited with having provided “guidance”) — over the past couple of months working with Dan Lubart. Lubart owns […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishers Launch Conferences, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "The Marriage Bargain", Barnes & Noble, Codex Group, Colleen Hoover, Dan Lubart, DBW, Digital Book World, Entangled Publishing, Hachette, HarperCollins, iobyte, Jane Litte, Jim Hilt, Kensington, Kobo, Macmillan, Nook, NY Times, Penguin, Peter Hildick-Smith, Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Soho, Theresa Horner, USA Today, Waterstone's, WH Smiths

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