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Luzme: Another Way to Track E-Book Prices

Juli Monroe — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:56:50 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed eReaderIQ as a way to track Kindle e-book prices. Several readers encouraged me to try Luzme, and so I gave them a look today. Their big advantage over eReaderIQ is that Luzme allows you to track prices from multiple stores, in five countries (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and [...]

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Weekend Reading Roundup — Is book discovery only a problem for publishers?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:14:13 +0000

Here’s the problem with publishers’ book discovery problem (Paid Content) Why Stephen King was wrong to publish ‘Guns’ as a Kindle Single (NY Daily News) Amazon to Investigate Claims of Worker Intimidation at German Centers (New York Times) Publishing is tough these days — unless you’re in nautical almanacs, apparently (The Guardian) Kindle Daily Deals: ‘Beautiful Creatures’ books [...]

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Online tool looks to help authors distribute excerpts

Susan Lulgjuraj — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:05:58 +0000

The book is written. It’s for sale on your website, on Amazon, or wherever you think people will look. So, how do you get people to buy? Getting through the noise can be difficult. That’s where Publisher’s Portal hopes to jump in. It’s a Web-based company looking to distribute excerpts of books for a small fee. [...]

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A Readmill iPhone app is on the way

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:00:27 +0000

We’ve written a bit about the Berlin-based startup Readmill in the past; here’s a Q&A-style interview we ran back in August 2012 with Henrik Berggren, the company’s über-ambitious founder. As we wrote in the introduction to that interview: The easiest way to understand exactly what Readmill is and what exactly it can do for you is [...]

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In Italy, Train Passengers Now Enjoy Free E-Books

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:09:51 +0000

If you’re the type who regularly follows international news of the ever-expanding e-book scene, you may have already heard about the unusual business collaboration between the Italian book publishing company known as RSC Libri, and the Italian train company, ITV. The partnership, which was announced at The Bookseller’s FutureBook 2012 conference in London, and which has been [...]

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SmallDemons Releases “Collections” Feature for Storyverse

Aggregated Content — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:27:09 +0000

By Colleen T. Reese Today, SmallDemons, a book discovery and literary culture app, quietly released what can ultimately only be described as the Pinterest for books. We’ve written about SmallDemons before, but for those of you unfamiliar with the application, SmallDemons aggregates cultural references made in books and uses them to aid in book discovery. Users [...]

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