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If you’re an author and your book is not on the Kindle, this is a good year to get it there. Kindle guru Steve Windwalker cites a market analyst who predicts that 16 million Kindles will be sold this year. If you also count the Kindles that have been sold prior to this year, you’re …
It’s not easy keeping up with technology, as this Best Buy commercial humorously illustrates: [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAAZ7iXN-o’] Consider the eReader. If you’re in the market for one, you have to navigate a wide range of devices — from the Kindle to the Nook to the iPad. As publishers, we want our books to be available …
Amazon announced today that for every 100 print books it sells, it now sells 105 ebooks. In other words, the ebook “train” has left the station. There is no going back. As someone with a few thousand old-fashioned print books lining the walls of his house, the success of ebooks is bittersweet. The paperbacks sitting …
Late last year, Amazon unveiled Kindle for the Web, a feature that allows authors and publishers to easily post book excerpts on their web sites. Here’s what it looks like on my web site (you can click here to see it live): By pasting a text string supplied by Amazon, I can give visitors a …