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Free Kindle for Amazon Prime Members??
This could be a real game changer and yes Jeff Bezos is known to create game-changing business models. Read More here
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Kleiner Perkins Bets Heavily On Apple’s iPad
Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is increasing its bet on Apple’s iPad. The firm has added another $100 million to an “iFund” that had started with an initial deposit of $100 million two years back. The firm’s … Continue reading
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Another Publisher Goes With Apple’s Agency Model – What should Amazon do?
Perseus Book Group (one of the largest distributor of independent publishers) has decided to go with Apple’s Agency model (70-30 split). Perseus Books Group, a large independent publisher that also distributes works from 330 other smaller presses including Grove Atlantic, … Continue reading
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Another Author bows to ebook trend – John Grisham
John Grisham, one of the best known thriller author across the globe has finally decided to open up all his backlist of 23 novels in ebook format. Which means that owners of Kindle, Nook, Sony ereader and soon iPad will … Continue reading
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Amazon Launches Kindle for Mac
Amazon today launched its kindle app for Mac in its endeavor to become a ebook platform that span across all the devices. Amazon’s e-book application automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. Features that will be added to … Continue reading
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Ebook Pricing War Between Apple and Amazon – Who Will Win Publishers or Amazon
As we all know book publishing industry is going through one of the biggest industry defining change in last 100+ years. When the industry seemed all ready to go ahead with the ebooks (with Amazon successfully launching and selling kindle and kindle … Continue reading
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Apple iBook – more details
1. Ibook app wont come as default. Users will have to download it from App store 2. Users will be able to import and read their free epub format books on IBook 3. Text to voice – similar to Amzon … Continue reading
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What Stops Users From Buying an Ebook
American Editor recently ran a poll to figure out what stops users from buying an ebook. The results are out and no surprises. 1. 57% of the users feel that they are not comfortable buying ebooks due to DRM restrictions … Continue reading
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