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Continue reading →: Ebury reveals Less Ordinary digital list | The Bookseller
There’ll be a lot more of this, or at least you’d hope there will be, as publishers look to profit from their existing content in more ways. This is a pretty good example of what an established player can do with a bit of application and thought: Ebury has launched…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | What’s a book? It’s whatever you want it to be — Tech News and Analysis
In case you missed it, stop thinking book or ebook and think, content and the many ways to sell it: This kind of “format shifting,” in which a newspaper or magazine takes content that has already been published and reformats it for the Kindle or some other device, makes a…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Unbound: The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult | Mssv
Great piece on Unbound, all of which I agree with, by Adrian Hon: Where Kickstarter is transparent, Unbound is bafflingly opaque – although this coyness may stem from publishers’ reluctance to talk about hard numbers even when they’re raising all their money from the public. Transparency also applies to creators;…
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Continue reading →: I Wrote A Comment On IPN | Irish Booksellers Are Missing Out On Digital Sales | Irish Publishing News
It’s about booksellers and ebooks: Last week a new science-fiction and fantasy title, A Dance With Dragons, sold 2,200 copies in hardback in Ireland. What’s more, it did so at over €20 per copy. An impressive result and a great boost for the booksellers who sold it. In countries like…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Harry Potter Goes Google for the New Pottermore E-book Site
You know, this really IS a very good idea for Google. It will popularise their platform and probably engage LOTS of readers just as they are transitioning to ebooks. Might even help them sell some of those new ereaders they’ve launched! Its no surprise that Pottermore has turned to Google…
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