A couple days ago, a well-meaning colleague of mine, who often sends me links to news stories he finds online that may be of interest to the TeleRead community, emailed me with a real whopper. The link he sent took me to a CNET article that certainly grabbed my attention; "E-book porn flourishes on Amazon's Kindle," it was titled. Naturally, I gave it a thorough read. (For professionals reasons, of course!) But my amusement was short-lived. Because this wasn't just any old news article, although it most definitely did present itself as such. No, this was actually an opinion piece masquerading as a news item....

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  With millions of Kindles bought (and many gifted) this holiday season, authors can earn a share of both the regular monthly fund and the bonus every time their book is borrowed from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr. In the first full year of KDP Select, Amazon will pay authors more than $7 million from the KDP Select fund; over 500 KDP Select books have reached the top 100 Kindle best seller lists around the world. [PRESS RELEASE] SEATTLE—November 29, 2012—(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that a bonus of $1.5 million has been added to the KDP Select global...

For reasons that should be obvious enough to anyone who's ever worked in retail, Amazon doesn't exactly go out of its way to advertise its e-book return policy. In fact, unless you're a fairly regular customer of the Kindle Store yourself, there's a good chance you're not even aware that a Kindle books return policy exists. But there it is, right on Amazon's website: Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book....

For those Mac users out there comes some adivce from The Unofficial Apple Weblog: For whatever reason, many Amazon authors seem to be under the impression that you can only create a proper table of contents for Kindle Direct Publishing on Windows, not the Mac. Having just uploaded our newest book (Getting Ready for Mountain Lion) to Amazon, Steve Sande and I have invested a lot of time learning the quirks of KDP and its tools, as well as those for iBooks (but more about that in another post). For any of our readers who are also budding authors or publishers, we'll...

The answer really is “it depends.” It depends on who you are and where you are in the ebook world. Recently, Amazon started a program for its Prime members: they can borrow 1 ebook for free each month, choosing from a list of more than 30,000 titles (and the list is growing). The source of these ebooks appears to be the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program. Amazon is encouraging self-publishing authors to participate in KDP. KDP will “lend” books in its program to Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which is part of the Prime membership. Amazon hasn’t ignored compensation, either. It has set...