Self-publishing an ebook to Amazon.com is so easy anyone can do it, and that has drawn in a lot of spammers Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Advice for Amazon on its ebook strategy -- and these changes will please customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
As awesome as Kindle Direct Publishing is, it will be crushed by spam if Amazon doesn't take some action to control the amount of junk titles being dumped on it. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 09:00 Intellectual property agency 1454 has developed a new interactive children's adventure series that will be published exclusively on the Kindle worldwide. It is thought to be the first time a children's series has been produced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 08:50 Intellectual property agency 1454 has developed a new interactive children's adventure series that will be published exclusively on the Kindle worldwide. It is thought to be the first time a children's series has been produced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 06/06/2011 - 14:49 Lee Child and Suzanne Collins are the latest authors to sell more than a million Kindle books. The pair join Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts and Charlaine Harris. Child, who has written 16 Jack Reacher thrillers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble and Kobo are getting into the e-reader game with a new breed of touchscreen ebook readers, set for release in June Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Wed, 25/05/2011 - 14:24 Amazon is to open a new customer service centre in Edinburgh this August, with one of its roles to handle technical support for the Kindle. The move will create more than 900 permanent and temporary jobs over the next five years. The centre will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 25/05/2011 - 09:23 Amazon.com has created a 3G version of its cheapest Kindle after it become the companys bestselling e-reader. The internet retailing giant announced that it was selling Kindle 3G with Special Offers in "response to customer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
It happened. Amazon says ebook sales have surpassed physical book sales on Amazon.com. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 12/05/2011 - 09:19 Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels, has become the latest writer to sell more than one million Kindle ebooks through Amazon. The author, who is published by Gollancz in the UK, joins Stieg... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has tweaked its Kindle for Android app to run optimally on tablets running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2011-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon said Wednesday that its popular Kindle e-reader will allow customers to borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 U.S. libraries starting later this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Anja Sieg Publication Date: Thu, 21/04/2011 - 13:53 More than three years after it was introduced in North America and eight months after the UK become the first country outside of the US to get a dedicated Kindle store, Germany has followed suit. The German Kindle store was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon just eliminated one of the biggest differences between the Kindle and competing e-readers. It said today it will be rolling out the Kindle Library Lending feature later this year, allowing customers to borrow books for free from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. Other e-readers and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here's a clever idea from Chris Dixon: The investor and entrepreneur has turned his well-read blog into an ebook. Dixon, who runs Hunch and helps steer Founder Collective's bets when he's not blogging, has taken a couple years' worth of posts and compiled them into "Startups; Dixon's proceeds... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 18/04/2011 - 09:22 Amazon.co.uk has launched a two-week Kindle ebook promotion, with Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White priced £1.47. According to information sent to publishers whose books will feature, the campaign will be a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sitting at a table in a Barnes & Noble in St. Petersburg, Fla., T. J. Waters was signing copies of his book Hyperformance when a fan standing in line with the eBook version walked up and said, Its too bad you cant sign my Kindle. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is dropping the price of its Kindle e-reader to $114 as it faces increasing competition from Apple, Barnes & Noble and other tablets. The new price point represents a $25 price cut on the Wi-Fi version, but it comes with one major trade-off: ads. The e-reader will be sold by Amazon,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Wed, 23/03/2011 - 07:10 Lendle, the US-based tool that allows Kindle users to lend their ebooks, has been reinstated after Amazon said that its concern related to its "Book Sync tool". The news that Amazon had locked the services out of its API caused... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]