Tag Archives: e-books

Smashwords enables publishing to Apple iPad

By Steve Weber | Published: March 28, 2010

Great news last night from Smashwords: One of the benefits of your subscription to this exclusive author/publisher alert is you often learn Smashwords news before we announce it to the rest of the world. This is one of those times. ————————- 1. Smashwords to Distribute Ebooks to new Apple iPad iBookstore We’ve signed a distribution [...]

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Barnes & Noble eReader for iPad coming soon

By Steve Weber | Published: March 12, 2010

Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader will give our customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, as well as the existing content in their Barnes & Noble digital library. (That includes eBooks and content customers have downloaded to their nook™ eBook reader.) [...]

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eBooks are bestsellers on Apple's iPhone

By Steve Weber | Published: March 3, 2010

After playing second fiddle to video games for the past couple of years, e-books have claimed frontrunner status on the iPhone, according to Mobclix. Now, imagine how much better e-books will be selling when publishers can easily upload them to iTunes, instead of having to fashion a custom application for the App Store. My prediction: [...]

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Barnes & Noble will pay 6 percent affiliate commissions on eBooks

By Steve Weber | Published: July 20, 2009

Barnes & Noble is jumping into the eBook market, using a Plastic Logic reader. While Amazon has declined to pay affiliate commissions on Kindle edtions, B&N; has announced it will pay 6 percent on eBook sales. From an e-mail sent this afternoon: Introduce Your Shoppers to eBooks at Barnes & Noble We are excited to [...]

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