Authors who belong to major imprints and labels are apparently getting the shaft when it comes to ebook royalties. The commission cut has been fixed at around 25% for a few years now and is rarely the subject for intense debate. This all changed when HarperCollins hosted an investors day and told the assembled audience about the greater financial returns with ebooks.If you … [Read more...] about Authors Express Disdain on eBook Royalties
Archives for June 2013
Children’s eBook Discovery a Focal Point for Retailers
Photo courtesy of mashable.comOne of the pressing issues for booksellers, both physical and digital, continues to be book discovery. During an interview last week with Kobo’s Chief Content Officer Michael Tamblyn, the conversation veered to the topic just long enough to understand the steps that retailers are taking to address the issue of children’s ebook … [Read more...] about Children’s eBook Discovery a Focal Point for Retailers
IndieReader, Dystel&Goderich Partner on Taking Indie Authors to a New Level
In what is sure to be viewed as a stigma-erasing coup for indie authors, book discovery and indie advocacy site IndieReader announced its partnership today with one of the most well-known and respected literary agencies, Dystel & Godrich Literary Management. this collaboration will fast-track books that have been selected by a panel of judges as winners in IR’s annual … [Read more...] about IndieReader, Dystel&Goderich Partner on Taking Indie Authors to a New Level
Pixel Qi Receives a Massive Setback with Chunghwa Picture Tubes
Pixel QI quite famously said in an interview with Good e-Reader a few years ago that the company was abandoning the e-reader and tablet sector, and instead is focusing on military, government, and civil service. Today, we have official confirmation that the current manufacturing plant that Pixel Qi was contracting to provide companies with display screens has suspended its … [Read more...] about Pixel Qi Receives a Massive Setback with Chunghwa Picture Tubes
Barnes & Noble Is Not a Casualty in the War on Piracy
In his recent news article, Good e-Reader Editor-in-Chief Michael Kozlowski expressed the opinion that Barnes & Nobles’ disappointing economic performance has been due, at least in part, to the company’s decision to stop the pirating of Android apps. Barnes & Noble did this by blocking the ability to install apps from “Unknown sources.” As a result, Nook Tablet owners … [Read more...] about Barnes & Noble Is Not a Casualty in the War on Piracy
BOOM! Studios and Archaia Entertainment Join Forces
Two small-but-mighty comics publishers announced they are joining forces this week: BOOM! Studios and Archaia Entertainment will become one, with BOOM! being the surviving company and Archaia continuing as an imprint.Founded in 2005, BOOM! Studios publishes an eclectic array of comics that includes horror, superheroes (Mark Waid’s Irredeemable), action/adventure stories, … [Read more...] about BOOM! Studios and Archaia Entertainment Join Forces
eBook Review: The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Verdict: 5 StarsAs a book reviewer, I read a lot of content and I read most of it with a critical eye, looking for the finer points of the book to mention in my review and to help me determine its rating. It has been a very long time since a book pulled me in as far as The Almond Tree (Garnet Publishing) did, and an even longer time since a book has made me cry.As an … [Read more...] about eBook Review: The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn on the Emerging Growth in Children’s eBooks
Last week, Kobo released news of a study it had supported aimed at discovering where the growth in children’s digital content was coming from. The report, based on survey results from Parent Tested Parent Approved (PTPA) Media Inc., showed an exponential growth in children’s ebook consumption just in the last three years, with Kobo’s children’s sales increasing tenfold in that … [Read more...] about Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn on the Emerging Growth in Children’s eBooks
McGraw-Hill Education Releases Digital Solutions for Meeting Common Core Standards
One of the new national focuses in US education is the wider-spread adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. More often referred to simply as the Common Core, these standards are a set of guidelines which adopting states have agreed to meet for students at each year of progress through public school, minimizing the risk of students from each of the different … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill Education Releases Digital Solutions for Meeting Common Core Standards
Barnes and Noble Reaches App Distribution Deals with E FUN and Fuhu
Barnes and Noble made the internal call a few months ago to start pushing out its Nook ebook store to other companies. This would allow the company to go beyond its own line of tablets with the Nook ecosystem pre-installed and start marketing it to other companies, for their own solution. Today, Barnes and Noble has announced two agreements with E FUN and Fuhu. It is a positive … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Reaches App Distribution Deals with E FUN and Fuhu
Kno Collaborates with Connected Nation, Partners on Mobile Learning
Connected Nation, a non-profit agency that works to bring internet connectivity to schools throughout the country, partnered with AT&T, Kno, Edmodo, and Samsung to bring internet capability and one-on-one learning to over 100 students in two schools as part of a pilot program to study reactions and outcomes for students, parents, and educators.“Our aspiration is to help … [Read more...] about Kno Collaborates with Connected Nation, Partners on Mobile Learning
Penguin Seeks to Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit Against Author Solutions
Penguin purchased digital self-publisher Author Solutions last July, for a reported $116 million dollars. The vast majority of the publishing industry see Author Solutions as a pure money grab operation, taking advantage of authors who don’t know any better. In early April a class action lawsuit was initiated by three authors who used the platform and are jointly seeking $5 … [Read more...] about Penguin Seeks to Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit Against Author Solutions
Scholastic Takes Read180 on the Go with iOS Compatibility
As more schools around the country continue to open up funding sources for tablet computers in the classrooms, even in grades as young as preschool and kindergarten, content that was once relegated to web-based access on a handful of classroom computers or was accessed once a week when the class had its turn in the schools computer lab is become in greater demand by a wider … [Read more...] about Scholastic Takes Read180 on the Go with iOS Compatibility
Digital Comic Best Seller List – June 24 2013
It’s hard to keep track of the most popular digital comics, because unlike the print-book best-seller lists, which come out once a week, digital-comics lists are updated more or less continuously. Amazon does theirs once an hour. Still, it seems like Sunday night would be a good time to check out the digital best-sellers, as everyone will have had time to get the Wednesday … [Read more...] about Digital Comic Best Seller List – June 24 2013