E-book bestseller chart with prices: 13th June 2011
Philip Stone, Charts Expert: Karen Slaughter's direct-to-digital ebook exclusive, The Unremarkable Heart, climbs to the top of this week's eBestseller list thanks to solid Kindle and iBookstore...
View ArticleIs the eBook market reaching maturity in the UK?
Something is happening in the world of publishing as it appears the major publishers are finally reacting to the aggressive pricing of eBooks at Amazon by self published authors and independent...
View ArticleUsing digital to save on review copies
2011 has been the year of the App for publishers, no doubt about it, and there were even signs that the enhanced eBook market is worth investing in for the future. But before we get too cross-eyed...
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2011: the year the industry got it.
‘To echo what many publishing executives have been saying to us, 2011 will be the year when digital finally takes a significant and measurable share of UK ‘book’ sales.'Philip Jones’s blog, January...
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Q & A: Kerry Wilkinson
You might not have heard of Kerry Wilkinson. He sold his 100,000th copy of his ebook Locked In on Christmas Eve. Another self publishing success story. I asked him a few questions and he has been...
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Apple Education Plus iPad?
Before his death Steve Jobs had already targeted textbooks as the next opportunity His idea was to hire the best textbook writers to new create digital versions that were complimentary and exploited...
View ArticleHow To Sell A Kindle Fire
This video is thirty five seconds long. Only six of those actually show the device full on.That's because Amazon are not selling the Kindle Fire. In fact, they don't even begin the ad by saying that...
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The Paperback is Dead - Long Live The Paperback
Textr Beagle enters the ebook reader market with an £8 device, Kindle has a gorgeous new version, Nook comes to the UK. Is that the last death throes of the paperback we hear? Nah.read more
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Print and eBooks cannot co-exist after all
Swimming (or sinking) in a new world owned by device-manufacturers (who are, not coincidentally, store owners), publishers oft comfort themselves with the idea that the old will co-exist with the new...
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Burning the Page - an instant review
I'll be honest, when I saw tweets yesterday mentioning a book from 'Kindle insider' Jason Merkoski I was rather excited. The initial interview on the New York Times' blog offered plenty of tantalising...
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eBook streaming on Pinterest. A new service for book lovers just launched by...
With the rise of Social Media, publishers, authors, journalists and bloggers are jumping on the bandwagon of Facebook and Twitter. If we were to use the diffusion of innovation framework by Prof....
View ArticleFrom format war to sustainability fight
History is repeating itself. The developments we currently see with e-books, are in fact not new. In the early eighties there was a battle between the image carriers Betamax, VHS and Video 2000. VHS...
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Co-Publishing: The Third Way between Traditional Publishing and...
INTRO Thanks to the digital revolution new opportunities have arisen for both the traditional publishing and the self-publishing industries. The two businesses so far have been developing on two...
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Launching open value-added bundles in Italy (pbook+ebook)
Italian RCS Libri publishing group has just launched “110 Libri+” (literally 110 Books+), the first mass-market publishing initiative in Italy to offer value-added p+e bundles in the main online...
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Taking Bets for 2014...
Six Book and Publishing Betting odds for 2014I would take bets, but I’m not licensed, so it is just for funKindle dominance – the end of the beginning? 10 to 1 because this requires a lot of different...
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