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Are E-Book Sales Declining in Canada?

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:03 +0000

An interesting report is circulating the book blogs, alleging that e-book sales in Canada are down almost five percent. I’ve seen reporting on the Booknet Canada report on at least 3 blogs (for example, here and here and here, but nobody seems quite sure what to make of it. We’re selling lots and lots of devices here in Canada, aren’t we? We’re Kobo’s [...]

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Ted Heller comes out without a jacket

Paul St John Mackintosh — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:15:14 +0000

As already noted in TeleRead, author Ted Heller has recently been bemoaning his woes as a self-publisher in Slate. He’s now followed up with a further bulletin on his tribulations as an e-reader, first run on The Weeklings and also aired since on Slate. In particular, he cites the demise of that mobile billboard, the [...]

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Morning Roundup: Apple turns a pale shade of red

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:15:39 +0000

Apple Deems 55 Digital Comics too Hot for in-App Buying (Good e-Reader) On Tuesday, comiXology announced, via its blog, that several comics had been removed from the apps “In order to comply with the Apple App Store guidelines regarding adult or inappropriate content, some new releases were rejected for our iOS app this week. In [...]

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Is anyone still paying attention to the DOJ/ebook antitrust case?

Brian Howard — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:47:07 +0000

I guess I’d forgotten. Now that all the the publishing players have settled, abandoning agency pricing and returning to the wholesale slums, the DOJ/e-book antitrust case, which popped up again in everyone’s news feeds this week, feels a little anticlimactic. The DOJ, perhaps simply because it’s what it found, or perhaps because there’s no one [...]

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Amazon’s UK Tax Debacle: Time for the scapegoat to butt back?

Paul St John Mackintosh — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:57:29 +0000

UK press, politicians and public all seem heated up about Amazon’s tax bills in the UK—or lack thereof. Seems those deceitful corporations have been daring to incorporate and structure across jurisdictions, rather than standing meekly inside good honest British borders and reaching their hands into their pockets whenever that nice Mr. Osborne tells them to. [...]

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Poetry Breaks the Bank, Doesn’t Bring the Book Backlash

Paul St John Mackintosh — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:25:27 +0000

Much publicity has surrounded the record prices fetched for poetry manuscripts at an auction held by Bonhams in London as part of The Roy Davids Collection of Poetry, Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. The sale made a total of £750,000 ($1,141,550). The draft of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember me when I am gone’ fetched £33,650 ($51,217), almost ten [...]

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Toronto Star Recognized for Success in E-Book Experiment

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:49 +0000

I wrote previously about Star Dispatches, an e-book subscription service being produced by the Toronto Star. According to this article on The Star‘s website, they’re being recognized for this series with two Online Media Awards. The service has an intriguing set-up where, for a nominal fee, subscribers get a new e-book sent to them every week. [...]

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Morning Links: New E-Paper Technology, New Bookstats Report

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:10 +0000

The Real Costs of Publishing a Book (Media Shift) At every writers conference or self-publishing panel the question that almost always inevitably comes up is: “How much will self-publishing really cost me?” — New Bookstats Report Shows Spectacular Growth of eBook Market Since 2008 (The Digital Reader) The American Association of Publishers announced their latest [...]

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Pottermore’s Winning Digital Publishing Strategy

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:23:31 +0000

Futurebook is reporting that Pottermore, JK Rowling’s portal for all things Harry Potter, was a big winner at The Bookseller Industry Awards. As author Philip Jones explains, the thrust of the message they are hearing now is that there is no longer such a thing as ‘digital strategy.’ It’s all just strategy now. So, what do [...]

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E-Book Usability News: Adjustable line spacing now available on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9”

David Rothman — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:30:55 +0000

LibraryCity knocked Amazon for not letting users of the Kindle Fire HDs adjust their line spacing. But guess what I noticed just now within the font-related submenu of my Kindle HD 8.9” model running version 8.3.1 firmware? Alas, on my several files tested, I still couldn’t narrow the spaces sufficiently on the HD even though the Kindle app [...]

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Morning Links: Amazon Acquires Liquivista, OverDrive Unveils Big Library Read

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:52:09 +0000

‘Unbundling’ in the Book Business: The Fourth Big Trend (Shatzkin Files) A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. eBook Spending on the Rise (Digital Book World) In 2012 ebooks accounted for 11% of all book spending, according to a recap [...]

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MediaShift Plans Series of E-Books

Susan Lulgjuraj — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:45:44 +0000

MediaShift and PBS are getting into the e-book business. The first line of e-books will focus on topics within the MediaShift realm. The books are Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV and How to Self-Publish Your Book. Both books provide a ‘how-to’ on the respective topics with the ‘Cutting the Cord’ book [...]

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Review: Voice Dream Reader e-reading app

David Rothman — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:49:23 +0000

Note: An update of this post on LibraryCity.org focuses on education-related issues of read-aloud apps. A Catch-22 dogs those of us who most often read e-books visually but also want to hear them when we’re exercising or driving. The usual e-bookware doesn’t always come with or work with text to speech capabilities. Even if it does, we can’t control [...]

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Morning Links: What news organizations are learning from their e-book efforts

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:01:27 +0000

What News Organizations are Learning from their eBook Efforts (Poynter) News organizations have responded to changes in readers’ habits by moving beyond the newsstand and toward the bookshelf, zeroing in on ebooks as a new revenue source and a way to explore genres not typically found on front pages or home pages. Back to the [...]

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Review: “Let’s Get Visible: How to Get Noticed and Sell More Books” by David Gaughran

Paul St John Mackintosh — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:00:43 +0000

This book had me diving into my current e-book projects within the first few minutes of opening the review copy, looking at how to improve the preview, feedback hooks, tagging, category choice, etc. And by the end, I had a whole checklist of sites to visit, tweaks to make, programs to sign up for. That’s [...]

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