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Steps We Must Consider When Pricing E-Books? Really?

Juli Monroe — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:15:02 +0000

When I read the DBW article yesterday entitled “7 Must-Consider Strategies for Ebook Pricing,” I ended up scratching my head. What happened to “listen to the consumer and what they consistently tell you they want?” That sounds like a good idea when considering pricing e-books. Apparently not. It started with strategy #1. “Charge extra for [...]

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Average price of best-selling e-books on the decline

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:45:57 +0000

E-books seem to be costing consumers less money. Digital Book World tracks the prices of e-books on the best-sellers lists every week. Last week, the news site found e-books on the lists averaged more than $8 a book. After a week where a new publisher (Macmillan) allowed discounted prices, the average price of e-books on [...]

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DBW’s “When will Kindles become free?” misses the mark

Juli Monroe — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:33:56 +0000

It’s interesting to me how often people misunderstand the appeal of Amazon and its products. Over at Digital Book World today, Beth Bacon asked, “When will Kindle’s become free?” While it’s not a bad question—and I do think the day of the free Kindle (or another brand of e-reader) is coming—I think she missed an [...]

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Digital Book World is back online

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:34:54 +0000

The Digital Book World website has been down since at least 9:00 am EST this morning, for reasons unknown even to its editorial staff, from what we understand. But DBW’s IT team has been hard at work on the problem—whatever it was—for the majority of the day, and the site now seems to be back [...]

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Easy DRM For Self-Published Authors? Really?

Juli Monroe — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:00:15 +0000

Well here’s a terrible idea. DBW just posted a press release about Edition Guard, which brings Adobe DRM to indie authors and small presses who want to sell books direct from their website. Have we learned nothing in recent years? DRM doesn’t stop piracy. It’s ridiculously easy to crack. All DRM does is punish non-tech [...]

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Would the death of Barnes & Noble also kill book discovery?

Juli Monroe — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:46:50 +0000

Digital Book World posted an excellent article today about the Barnes & Noble elephant in the room at DBW 2013. The big takeaway from this article was this statistic: “According to the most recent Codex survey, online selling accounts for 61 percent of book sales, but only 7 percent of discovery.” That’s huge. I’m one [...]

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Free Webinar: The ABCs of Kids & Ebooks

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:38:18 +0000

Our friends over at Digital Book World are partnering with PlayScience, a New York-based children’s entertainment and education research company, to produce a free hour-long webinar, The ABCs of Kids & Ebooks. The webinar, which will look at the e-reading habits of children aged two to 13, is scheduled to take place from noon to 1 [...]

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Show Notes: Digital Book World 2013

Aggregated Content — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:00:16 +0000

By Brian Howard Book Business, one of TeleRead’s sister publications, spent the last two days soaking up the publishing wisdom on display at the Digital Book World conference at the Hilton New York. You can check their Twitter feed, @bookbusinessmag, for the full play by play. Below are some highlights. * * * » Following the Children’s Content in Context breakout session on [...]

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Video Highlights from the 2013 DBW Conference + Expo

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:44:32 +0000

This year’s installment of the Digital Book World Conference + Expo came to a close two days ago, and not surprisingly, video highlights from the event have been popping up online all week long. Those of you with a bit of extra cash to spare (or, more realistically, a corporate account) might consider purchasing an on-demand video [...]

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Show Notes: Report from the Digital Book World Marketing and Discoverability Conference

a TeleRead Contributor — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:30:32 +0000

By Brian Howard | for Book Business “If you came here looking for a map, good luck,” joked Perseus Book Group’s Rick Joyce, noting that figuring out the new world of discoverbility is “not about map following, but about map building.” While the metaphor might seem extreme, when it comes to marketing and discoverability in the [...]

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Mike Shatzkin discusses DRM revelations from Digital Book World

Chris Meadows — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:58:33 +0000

An interesting thing about the latest post from publishing-industry observer Mike Shatzkin, highlighting what he feels were the most important points from the Digital Book World conference he helped run: it largely focuses on DRM. Aside from Matteo Berlucchi’s call for publishers to drop DRM (which I covered here and here), Shatzkin also brings up [...]

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Mike Shatzkin predicts publishing nine months from now

Chris Meadows — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:41:27 +0000

Mike Shatzkin’s blog posts are always worth reading, but his latest is particularly interesting. Frequently e-book prognosticators focus on the long-term, but Shatzkin this time tries to predict where the e-book industry will be in nine months, for the purposes of planning the panel schedule of the Digital Book World event he helps run. Among [...]

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Competition for reader attention heading up, says Mike Shatzkin

Chris Meadows — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:27:47 +0000

Publishing analyst Mike Shatzkin, back from Digital Book World, has an interesting piece on his blog looking at the effect that non-publishers getting into the publishing business could have other publishers. He talks about a discussion he had with a distinctly non-tech-savvy publisher of renown who was now running his own smaller operation. This publisher [...]

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Publishers and agents differ on ‘fair’ e-book royalty rates

Chris Meadows — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:43:14 +0000

EBookNewser has a report on an ongoing disagreement between publishers and agents as to the nature of a “fair” e-book royalty percentage. It seems publishers think that the percentage is 25%, while many agents think it should be 50%. This comes by way of a survey presented yesterday at Digital Book World by Mike Shatzkin [...]

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DBW panelists suggest children’s book apps need curating

Chris Meadows — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:01:13 +0000

eBookNewser has some coverage of a children’s book panel from Digital Book World today. One consensus to come out of the panel is that children’s book apps lack curation to weed out the 90% of lousy apps to make it easier to find the 3,000 or so good ones. Whereas in the print world there [...]

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