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Why is Amazon censoring e-book porn?

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:16:07 +0000

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 [...]

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Morning Links — Stories you may have missed

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:55:44 +0000

E Ink Now Being Sued for Patent Infringement (The Digital Reader) Kindle Fire Nabs 33% of Android Market Share (The Digital Reader) Spending on Digital Content Tablet on Tablets Soars, New Research Says (Digital Book World) How Digital Comics Change the Way Comics are Drawn and Imagined (Gizmodo) Making Money from Kindle Publishing (PC Pro) [...]

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Kindle Direct Publishing Adds $1.5M Holiday Bonus for KDP Select Authors

Aggregated Content — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:58:56 +0000

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 [...]

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Are you scamming the Amazon Kindle store?

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:27:05 +0000

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. [...]

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iBook Lessons: Creating Amazon KDP tables of contents on MS Word for Macintosh

Paul Biba — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:28:25 +0000

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 [...]

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eBook Exclusivity — A Good or Bad Idea?

Rich Adin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:24:07 +0000

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 [...]

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