Corporate Blues: On Eoin Purcell’s Amazon Appointment
Bit Of A Bombshell My colleagues at The Bookseller broke the news in a report from our Benedicte Page: Eoin Purcell has been appointed head of the London division of Amazon Publishing. I’m both...
View ArticleParallel protests of Amazon
Pitchforks United: The protests expand… As I write this, the number of signatories to the new German-language offener brief an Amazon, open letter to Amazon, has jumped by nearly 200 in a single day....
View ArticleInfographic: eBooks advance in Dutch-language market’s Q2
“There is no flattening out yet over here in ebook sales” …“Our country is quite unique in the diversity of its ebook landscape,” says Timo Boezeman, a sales account manager in the digital division of...
View ArticlePublishing’s Future: When Editors Eat Robots
The Quantified Self Of Richard Nash He is a podium prowler. He moves around during a conference presentation. He sets up gazelle-graceful concepts and wounds them quickly, before you get too...
View ArticleBlog Sommelier: Pairing ‘Agent Orange’ And Howey
Orange To Writers: ‘Amazon is no big rock-candy mountain of authorial freedom’ The interests of the self-publishing cheerleaders have been well served by their subsidy from Amazon over the past few...
View Article‘Retail stonewalling’ and Amazon sightings in bookstores
Oil and water...The general pattern, of course, has been simple: many bookshops, objecting to Amazon’s effects on the industry, have declined to carry books from Amazon Publishing imprints. A kind of...
View ArticleEight Issues in Author Ethics
As Self-Publishing Matures… Well, I’ve never purchased or read a self-pubbed book and have no plans to do so, in part because they’re generally unedited and of poor quality and in part because you...
View Article“Visionaries on the Decks”: Storytelling
“To Declare Your Story’s Intent” There are things important to you. You hurt. You know stuff. I don’t. You see things that I cannot…You have everything you need, including the courage to declare your...
View ArticleSeattle’s Finest: Jon Fine Is Leaving Amazon
The Face Of The Company’s Publishing Platforms To Thousands After almost nine years at Amazon, I am sorry to announce that Jon Fine has decided to leave the company at the end of the year. When he...
View ArticleAt Frankfurt Book Fair, Where’s Amazon?
My first sea journey was on the Cunard liner, the HMS Queen Elizabeth.Not the QEII, but her predecessor — longer than the HMS Queen Mary by 11 feet, I loved telling my friends. And as my family drove...
View ArticleAt Frankfurt Book Fair: ‘Surprise’ support for subscriptions
As my Bookseller colleague Philip Jones is writing for us today in Turn up the volume, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 provided, if nothing else, a look at digital now under sail in early, calm waters. He...
View ArticleWaiting for the pundits to vote on Amazon’s new ‘Kindle Scout’
The name of the new programme rolled out, it seems, at 3:01 a.m. Eastern time in the United States today by Amazon is “Kindle Scout.” And the way to understand that name is to think like a reader:...
View ArticleAuthorEarnings.com: Kindle Unlimited On The Line
‘I wish our conclusions could be more . . . conclusive’ But all things being equal? Authors are working without a net right now. As with so many things in publishing at this point in its encounter with...
View ArticleIs Amazon KU exclusivity a velvet barrier for authors?
It “might be a possibility” at some point that Amazon would consider changing the the Kindle Unlimited (KU) subscription programme’s exclusivity requirement for independent authors, according to Daniel...
View ArticleNot exclusively about exclusivity: Kindle Unlimited
With subscriptions at the center of last Friday’s #FutureChat — and Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited (KU) in particular — it’s worth noting how pleased we are that both Justo Hidalgo of Spain’s 24Symbols and...
View ArticleGeorge Berkowski’s FutureBook Conference podium warmer
The Bookseller’s The FutureBook 2014 Conference programme on 14th November promises to have the widest scope and most inquisitive bent yet, in terms of signalling digital directions ahead. Keynote...
View ArticleDiversion Books Launches EverAfter App
Is The Romance Market Really Bottomless? An innovative independent publisher in New York City, Diversion Books has announced a new venture: EverAfter is described in its inaugural press release as “the...
View ArticleThe Marketing Muscle Behind The National Book Award Finalist ‘Station Eleven’
‘Six Weeks And 21 Cities’ I was signing in at a Global Entry / Trusted Travelers kiosk on the passport control floor at JFK the other day, just in from London. I put my passport in, let the machine...
View ArticleGoodreads Choice Awards: Women Authors Win Two-To-One
When 3.3 Million People Vote On Their Faves Aside from reading — we have to hope — nothing seems to entertain Goodreads more than surveying its vast self, and this is good news for the rest of us...
View ArticleIs the honeymoon over? KU comes between Amazon and its self-publishers
A kind of downgrade for Amazon, and nowhere near Wall Street The most significant change is that Amazon KDP has slipped to third and also reflects the growing discontent self-published authors have...
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