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Random House holding out on iPad e-book distribution – Macworld
From MacWorld: Random House is taking a wait-and-see approach to selling books on the iPad, just as it’s doing with Amazon’s Kindle. Folks, the train is leaving the station! // Random House, the world’s largest publisher by sales volume, is still holding out on including its titles in the iPad’s iBookstore. At issue, apparently, are [...]
Will Kindle crash Nielsen BookScan?
Quick, how many copies of your books sold this month? Most authors know their Amazon Sales Ranks, but few can tell you how many books have sold, and where. Amazon’s ranks are the poor man’s Nielsen BookScan, they reveal the rate at which a title sells relative to competitors. But if you want real, hard [...]
Building an 'open library' on the Internet
Here’s an idea: A library with every book in the world. Not just every book book that’s in-print and out-of-print, but every book. Metadata about every book ever written, and direct access to its content when possible. Organizers of The Open Library say it will be: A product of the people: letting them create and [...]
Q&A: How can I sell my e-book on Amazon?
QUESTION: I can’t find a traditional publisher for my book. But I believe people would buy it because it has valuable information for readers, and I can price it affordably. Is there any way an unknown author like me to put his eBook up for sale on Amazon.com? ANSWER: Yes, any unknown author can put [...]
Printed page is obsolete, Gates says
Microsoft’s Bill Gates is a pretty smart guy, but a lousy fortune-teller. He’s predicting that the printed page will be toast in five years. Why? For one thing, the advertising is better online, Gates says. // The Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog quotes Gates as saying: Reading is going to go completely online. We believe that as [...]
Marketing your book with Amazon Shorts, Part II
As explained here, Amazon Shorts are one way to use impulse purchases on Amazon to bring attention to your full-length books. Amazon Shorts are e-books that cost readers 49 cents. But for some authors, the book sales are merely gravy because customer acquisition is the name of the game. For example, perhaps the most prolific [...]
Using Amazon Shorts to promote your book
Electronic books, or e-books, haven’t gotten much traction with consumers. People don’t enjoy reading extended passages of text on a computer screens, and there’s no popular e-book reader devices yet. Prices of e-books haven’t been discounted much from the price of hard-copy books, giving price-conscious consumers little incentive to switch. In the meantime, though, free [...]
Sell more books by giving them away
// Great article in Forbes by author Cory Doctorow. He posted the entire text of his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, for free downloading on his Web site. That was three years ago, and the book is in its sixth printing. More than 700,000 copies of the book have been downloaded. [...]
Report: Apple iPad e-books will match Kindle pricing