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Publishers Target e-book Pirates

By Michael Kozlowski  The International Publishers Association is taking e-book piracy seriously and has started to target websites offering free downloads. A series of websites have been targeted that have a massive collection of pirated content from 16,000...

Amazon to Publishers: Set Your Own E-Book Prices!

┬áAmazon to Customers: Not Our Fault! The New York Times reported on Monday night that Amazon and HarperCollins had signed a new multiyear contract to sell e-books. The agreement, which came just a few weeks after news leaked to Business Insider that HarperCollinsÔÇÖ...

Amazon Adds 2,000 Audiobooks to Kindle Unlimited in Germany

┬áAudiobooks have proven to be Scribd’s secret weapon in the subscription ebook market but Amazon is not exactly unarmed. The retailer has offered around 2,000 audiobooks in Kindle Unlimited since it launched last July, and now German subscribers can join the...

Amazon.com Swing to Earnings Loss Expected

By Narrative Science Analysts are predicting grim results for Amazon.com when the company releases its first quarter numbers on Thursday, April 23, 2015. They are expecting the company to take a loss of 12 cents a share after Amazon.com booked a profit of 23 cents a...

Is the Traditional Publishing Industry Finally Catching Up?

By Mercy Pilkington Only a handful of years ago, self-published authors fought for legitimacy and respect while readers, retailers, and the traditional publishing industry scoffed at the notion that anyone would buy a book that hadnÔÇÖt been passed through the...

Children’s Print Book Sales Buck the Trend

By Jonathan Nowell   At our Nielsen ChildrenÔÇÖs Summit in New York in December, we talked about how childrenÔÇÖs print book sales around the world in the last couple of years have been nothing short of fantastic. Total print sales in the US rose 2%, but...

How Authors Communicate with their Following Online

by International Digital Marketing Expert – Warren Knight Warren is our keynote speak at the AuthorCraft event on April 28th at the IoD. Do you remember when book promotion relied heavily on the traditional press routes of magazines and offline marketing? There...

Apple moves Audiobooks to iBooks

By Roger Fingas ┬áApple’s newly released iOS 8.4 beta relocates audiobooks out of the Music app into iBooks, and it adds a separate launcher for them in CarPlay, AppleInsider has discovered. With the first beta of iOS 8.4, CarPlay users will see a new...