Hugo Membership: The Best Way to Spend $42.34 (Book Riot)
You are about to learn about a secret way to buy 5 great books at once, along with 5 novellas, 5 novellettes, 4 short stories and a heap of magazines and artwork, for just $42.34*.
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Amazon Introduces Four New Kindle Worlds From Romance Novelists (The Digital Reader)
Four romance authors are now inviting submissions from writers, including Barbara Freethy, Bella Andre, H.M. Ward, and Lucy Kevin.
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US Publishing Industry Earned $27.01B in Net Revenues Last Year (GalleyCat)
The US book publishing industry generated $27.01 billion in net revenue in 2013, selling 2.59 billion units, according to a new report from the Association of American Publishers.
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ALA Report Confirms Negative Impact of Filtering on Student Learning (The Digital Shift)
Internet filtering in schools and libraries is excessive and limits student learning, hurting low-income kids the most, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA).
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Kindle Daily Deal: The Sum of Our days (and others)
“$27.01 billion in net revenue in 2013, selling 2.59 billion units”
Interesting – that suggests an average profit of $10 per unit sold. Ebooks and paperbacks account for the majority of the units solf, but their prices are typically not much more than that average profit per unit. That suggests that nearly the entire purchase price of a typical book really is profit to the publisher.