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Average price of best-selling e-books see a near $2 spike from last week

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:47:39 +0000

A best-selling author putting out a new book can wreak havoc on the average price of best-selling e-books. This was shown this week when the average price of best-selling e-books spiked by about $2 to $8.92, as reported by Digital Book World. DBW has kept track of the average prices of e-books from week-to-week since [...]

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Best-Seller Lists: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:20:46 +0000

Digital Book World has been compiling weekly e-book bestseller lists for some time, and in the latest analysis they’ve made on them, Jeremy Greenfield alleges to have found an e-book pricing “sweet spot.” What he means by this is that in looking at data over the last four months, very few books have made the best-seller [...]

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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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The Gamification of Books: Good Idea, or Bad?

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:00:52 +0000

There was an interesting article in yesterday’s Morning Links about the ‘gamification’ of books. I had first heard this term in response to the Reading Life feature on the Kobo platform, which awards you ‘badges’ for such activities as reading at a certain time in the day, reading a certain number of books, using a [...]

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Bookish Impressions

Juli Monroe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:30:33 +0000

Bookish has launched with much fanfare. Some good. Some bad. Nate over at The Digital Reader had an amusing look at their terms of service. DBW has three reasons they will succeed and three reasons they will fail. Hedging their bets much? So I decided to try using the site and assess it from a usability [...]

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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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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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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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Morning Links — More American kids are reading digitally

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:10:05 +0000

New Report Suggests 54% of US Kids Now Read eBooks (The Digital Reader) Kobo Customers Read 22 Million Pages on Christmas Day (Kobo) In Battle for Listeners, Audiobook.com Switches to Audible’s Pay by the Book Model (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: Breaking Night by Liz Murray (+ 3 others)

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DBW 2013: Piracy Does Harm Sales

Juli Monroe — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:32:00 +0000

Digital Book World just published a report that piracy does harm sales and backed it up with a list of 25 studies that prove the point. Okay, splashy headline. You can agree or disagree with it, your choice. What I found interesting were the recommendations to publishers: 1. Make content available online 2. Use existing [...]

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Digital Book World announced Publishing Innovation Awards

Paul Biba — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:59:31 +0000

From the press release: The Publishing Innovation Awards will recognize the best ebooks and book apps based on their merits in the areas of origination, development, production, design, and marketing. To celebrate the launch of the awards, organizers at Digital Book World 2011 Conference + Expo will present the inaugural Publishing Innovation Awards in five [...]

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