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- A digital Albom through Kindle
And so it begins. Amazon has signed Mitch Albom to an exclusive Kindle-only deal. Granted it’s an epublication of a graduation speech, but you know what they say about first steps.
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- Kindle Title Sales Appear to Increase
Per Amazon: "…on a title-by-title basis, of the 130,000 titles available on Kindle and in physical form, Kindle sales now make up over 12% of sales for those titles." Note the odd phrasing of the headline, however.
- Houghton Signs Book on Federer-Nadal Match
Yeah, a whole book. On a tennis match. You gotta wonder.
- Amazon Kindles Sales as Readers Demand Novels Online
Of course, based on online chatter about the iPhone ereaders, maybe we can change the headline to "readers demand novels online", though, hmm, that’s awkward. How about, "readers do too read ebooks"?
- Carry-On Books To Take You Up, Up And Away
Nancy Pearl offers a few choice airplane books and some useful selection advice: "Mostly you want something that’s intriguing enough to make you forget that you’re 34,000 feet in the air and, in your heart of hearts, you don’t really understand how the plane stays up."
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- Exact Editions: Charkin Blog in book form
The former blog of Macmillan chief Richard Charkin, now coming to a book near you! More than a few interesting questions raised in this post from Exact Editions, which outed the upcoming publication when a request for permission to use content was received.
- Publishers and authors in book fight
As Australia looks at ways to open up the market to imported books, publishers and authors argue that cheap books will kill local production.
- As Textbooks Go ‘Custom,’ Students Pay
On one hand, we like the idea of customizable textbooks. On the other hand, we worry that high-priced textbooks aren’t good for students.
- What Publishers Can Learn From the Gaming Industry
We’re guesting at Foreword Magazine this month. Post One: it’s the story, stupid.
- Harlequin Launches Enriched Edition eBooks
Very cool. We like the idea of, oh, using the Internet to extend the story of the story.
- Welcome to the ETC-Press (Beta)
ETC-Press has created a Lulu imprint/channel to expand their ability to connect books and audiences. We approve.
- Could Microblogs Destroy the Auction Paradigm?
Galleycat considers the impact of Twitter on auctions and "big deals" (we think, not so much ultimately). (via Richard Nash, who has a lovely quote in the article, via Twitter…)
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