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Six Book Publishing Lessons From Open Road Media

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:39 +0000

Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent brings us this great story about Open Road Media, an e-only publisher that specializes in backlist republications of titles which were not yet available in e-book form. Along with the history lesson on the history of this unique publisher, the article offers six ‘lessons’ other publishers can learn from what Open Road [...]

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Goodreads CEO Speaks Out About Amazon Merger

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:12:18 +0000

By now, we’ve all heard about Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads, the popular social media hub for book fans. I’ve seen a lot of speculation–including here at Teleread–about what this means for the future of Goodreads. This article at Paid Content is the first to answer that question straight from the horse’s mouth, by posing it to Otis [...]

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Inkling Habitat’s media-rich e-book platform is now free for all

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:26:10 +0000

The news, released today, that the San Francisco-based Inkling has decided to give away for free its “collaborative digital publishing environment” known as Inkling Habitat was probably the e-publishing community’s most eyebrow-raising story of the week thus far. As Laura Hazard Owen wrote today for Paid Content, the company “has spent three years and $30 [...]

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Breakout Books in the App Store highlights self-published e-books

Aggregated Content — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:00:51 +0000

By Arnold Zafra In a move to encourage more self-published authors to make their masterpieces available on the iBookstore, Apple has created an entirely new section, Breakout Books, where self-published e-books will be displayed prominently. According to Apple, Breakout Books is aimed at helping readers find the next reading sensation by way of this collection of [...]

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Nostalgia Publishing—Can it Pay?

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:45:56 +0000

From Paid Content’s Laura Hazard Owen comes this story about Scholastic Books and their upcoming re-release—in e-book form—of the hit 80′s series “The Babysitters Club.” What makes this story interesting is that the first seven books are, in fact, already available as e-books. But what Scholastic is doing with these new releases is marketing to [...]

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Brief notes from the Frankfurt Book Fair

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:53:50 +0000

Paid Content’s Laura Hazard Owen is currently in Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair. Earlier this morning she filed a brief post about the changes Barnes & Noble and Kobo are experiencing as they continue moving their retail operations abroad. Apparently Michael Tamblyn, Kobo’s EVP of content sales and merchandising, had some interesting (and especially wise) [...]

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Changes in e-book pricing settlement payouts: Here’s what you need to know

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:32:05 +0000

If you’re one of the many e-book customers who’s expecting a payment or credit as a result of the 49 states’ recent $69 million settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, you should be aware that “the states have slightly modified the way those payments will work,” according to Paid Content reporter Laura Hazard Owen. [...]

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Barnes & Noble reportedly instructs local stores to pull Amazon titles

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:04:50 +0000

Yesterday, shoppers discovered that Barnes & Noble is carrying books from Amazon Publishing’s New York imprint in stores around the country, despite the company’s insistence that it wouldn’t do so. Following our story’s publication yesterday, I learned that Barnes & Noble headquarters sent an email to its branches around the country telling them to pull [...]

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