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 fun. Amazon just announced that the addition of 2,000 English and German Audible audiobook […]

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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 year ago. The consensus estimate hasnÔÇÖt changed over the […]

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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 infamous ÔÇ£gate.ÔÇØ Even with the names of early multi-million selling authors being thrown around, names […]

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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 childrenÔÇÖs was the key driver, with 13% growth. In […]

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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 were many challenges when promoting a book 10 years ago that we donÔÇÖt […]

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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 “Audiobooks” app sporting the iBooks icon. The change to CarPlay was […]

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10 Things To Look Out For When Line Editing

by Adriana Bielkova ┬®. You know the drill: revise the structure; look at plot flow; do more work on this or that character; check grammar and spelling; proofread. Hang on a secondÔǪ you forgot to line edit! Line editing makes your sentences the best they can be. That means removing all the unnecessary words; making […]

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London Book Fair 2015: Self-Publishing Smashes Through

by Andrew Albanese | Once again, events tailored to independent and self-published authors at the London Book Fair’s Author HQ were jam-packed, and among the London Book FairÔÇÖs most popular offerings. PW checks in with a leading indie service provider, Smashwords founder Mark Coker, about the state of self-publishing in 2015, and what the future […]

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