National Book Award Winners for 2013 (GalleyCat)
The National Book Award winners for 2013 were revealed tonight. You can read free samples of all the winners below to help fill your eReader or tablet.
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Nearly Half of Parents Plan on Buying E-Reading Devices for Kids This Holiday Season (Digital Book World)
E-reading devices and the digital books to fuel them will be popular gifts this holiday season, an October 2013 study by PlayCollective with Digital Book World reveals.
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The Business Rusch: Advertising, Print Editions, and Traditional Publishing (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
The latest buzz word in the publishing industry is “discoverability.” Everyone’s worried about the “mountain of crap” that self publishing will (has?) brought into the industry—including self published authors.
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Students in UK Want eBooks to be Priced Lower (GoodeReader)
eBooks already enjoy a price advantage over the printed counterparts though that does not seem to be enough for the younger generation in the UK. Or so a study revealed where the 16 to 24 age group expressed their desire for ebooks to be priced even cheaper. The common rationale is that since ebooks cost a fraction of printing a real book, they should also be priced much less than what it is right now.
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Kindle Daily Deals: Out of the Black (and 4 others)
