Amazon Sued Again
Authors
United (AU) and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) have
partnered
in a lawsuit
charging Amazon with monopolizing book sales. Did the authors
and book sellers just now realize that selling Kindles and ebooks at
a loss just might have been the key to monopolizing the ebook market?
Audio Editions
Continue Growth
Forget
eBooks. Revenues for 2014 showed audio
books climbed 13.5% over the previous year while eBook
revenues rose just 3.8%.
Facebook Wants In
Now
that various Facebook pages have sold millions of books, Facebook
wants
a cut of the action and is working on providing book specific
retailing pages.
Publishing
Thresholds
That
this
is causing such a stir up north surprises me. A successful
American publisher told me 15 years ago that he didn't want to
develop books that couldn't support a 25,000 copy first printing.
Print Gremlins
Still Run Loose
The
digital revolution in book production seems not to have been
successful in eradicating the fiendish print gremlins. The UK edition
of Harper Lee's new title shipped with text
missing from six pages. Eye-witness accounts of the gremlins
have yielded these
renderings.
Following
Literary Footsteps
Is
there a book in your past that left you with new insights about
America seen with fresh eyes? Follow the paths of Jack Kerouac, John
Steinbeck and ten other novelists (whose stories were published from
1872 to 2012) with routes from this
map of their literary travels.
NYC Library
Confronts Illiteracy
For
a variety of reasons the availability of ebooks hasn't affected
illiteracy rates for the poor, a
problem the NYC library is addressing.
Sorry,
This Just Sounds Stupid
New
Zealand start-up Booktrack
has just secured another $5 million in funding. It sells apps
that play music while you read your ebook, presumably for folks that
worry their iPod doesn't have just the right tunes for serious
reading.
Roald
Dahl Apps Available
When
my children were young they found Roald Dahl stories strange, funny
and sometimes frightening. If you have Roald Dahl fans in your
family, Penguin's new apps feature Dahl's characters the Twits (e.g.
Don't Wake Up Mrs. Twit!)
and are available
for both Android and Apple devices.
Social
Media for Writers
The
premise behind this
infographic seems disheartening to me, but for the self-promoters
among us there may be some worthwhile tips.
B&N's
Nook Circling the Drain?
B&N's
new CEO, Ron Boire, may feel some pressure to
kill the unpopular Nook ereader, despite the fact that B&N
stockholders believe in it. B&N has spent over $1 billion
developing the Nook and an updated version will be introduced in
early fall, just as Boire assumes control.
The
Problems (and Joys) of Moving
As
my son begins moving into his first house, I'm reminded of one of the
sweatiest, yet
most enjoyable aspects of a move.
eBooks
Allow Better Editing
Can
ebooks rushed to print allow
authors to edit more carefully before committing to print?
Final
Thought
“For
a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the
creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.”
Elizabeth
C. Bunce
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