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Bookstores Seek Authors: Chains Rushing to Become eBook Publishers
It’s very simple. As of Friday, Borders joined Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even Apple in the new self-publishing revolution. They’re all now offering cheap-and-easy ways to self-publish an ebook. In...
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Will Self-Published Authors Create New Kinds of Books?
I’ve always wondered whether self-publishing was as popular as it seems. But it’s at least earned some new attention from The Wall Street Journal. In October they dug up some actual statistics on the...
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Amazon Announces Big Kindle Sales Figures
Amazon won’t release specific numbers about their Kindle sales — but they made a rare exception Thursday in their special year-end press release. “2011 is the Best Holiday Ever for Kindle,” Amazon...
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Authors Profit from the Kindle “Lending Library”
Today Amazon revealed their first statistics for the “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library”. There’s over 75,000 ebooks that can now be borrowed for free for one month by the members of Amazon’s “Prime”...
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A Kindle Success Story
There was an inspiring story in Amazon’s newsletter for self-published authors. (You may remember that for a birthday present, I published a short ebook for my girlfriend with pictures of her dog!)...
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How Amazon Rescued a Struggling Writer
It felt like something happened last week. A writer dared to speak the truth — spilling the beans about how hard life is for a professional book author. Jessica Park finally revealed how much real...
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A Special Free eBook – about My Dog!
My girlfriend actually cried when I showed her her birthday present last year. I’d written her a Kindle ebook about her dog! I’d told her I’d hidden her present somewhere in the apartment — not in the...
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Announcing the Closure of Helium
Amazon started in a garage, and grew into an enormous web superstore — and the home of the Kindle. Soon it was attracting amateur authors, and a new world suddenly appeared where everyone could...
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Amazon Publishes Customer Success Stories as a Free eBook
This is pretty special. People who’ve founded successful digital businesses were all interviewed for a very inspiring new Kindle ebook. It’s published by Amazon, of course — celebrating its role as...
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New Site Mocks the Worst Kindle eBook Covers
“Judging a book by its cover is generally frowned upon,” jokes a newspaper in England, “but the same cannot be said for ebooks.” They’re interviewing the creator of a new page on Tumblr called...
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