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Report: Apple iPad e-books will match Kindle pricing

If this is accurate, it certainly is a surprise. The conventional wisdom is that Apple wouldn’t match Amazon’s Kindle prices on e-books. “Since when does Apple compete on price?” has been a familiar phrase. // UPDATE ON 3/29/10: Prices have been raised above $10, so perhaps this report was premature. I had the chance this [...]
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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 [...]
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Q&A: How can authors market their Kindle books?

Question: I’ve read Plug Your Book, which discusses online marketing of physical books. Now that e-books are available on Amazon via Kindle editions, how has online book marketing changed? Answer: The more things change the more they stay the same. Online book marketing works just the same with Kindle editions, except that e-books give you [...]
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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 [...]
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