Just in time for the holidays, GalleyCat has released its weekly bestseller list of self-published titles, compiled from sales data from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. The list, which crosses a variety of genres, includes separate sales data from the three major ebook distributors, but does not include specific sales figures. For romance fans, the top three titles … [Read more...] about Self-Published Bestsellers Available for Holiday Reading
Archives for November 2013
NewspaperDirect Rebrands Themselves as PressReader
If you are into digital newspapers you are likely familiar with PressReader. The company has over 3,000 newspapers in over 80 different countries and has dedicated reading apps for iOS, Android, Windows 8 and Blackberry. The apps have always simply been known as PressReader and today the company is undergoing a rebranding campaign to gravitate away from Newspaper Direct and … [Read more...] about NewspaperDirect Rebrands Themselves as PressReader
Barnes and Noble Announces Dramatic Price Cuts for Nook Tablets for Black Friday
Barnes and Noble is certainly no stranger to price cuts on their entire line of Nook e-Readers and Tablets. They have been slashing them in the US and UK for the last nine months and the company announced today new discounts. Gearing up for Black Friday, which kicks off the holiday shipping season you will be able to pick up a number of their devices for next to nothing. … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Announces Dramatic Price Cuts for Nook Tablets for Black Friday
Voxburner: Teens Still Prefer Print
With the major holiday gift buying days of the holiday season happening this weekend, shoppers might do well to remember the results of a new study by Voxburner: teens prefer print. While this isn't news, having first been revealed at the onset of device penetration, the study does demonstrate that the majority of readers ages sixteen to mid-twenties still prefer old … [Read more...] about Voxburner: Teens Still Prefer Print
Amazon Cracks Down on Bogus Keywords
A growing number of self-published authors are receiving ominous emails from ebook distributor Amazon, warning them that their books are about to be removed from the website if action isn't taken immediately. The warning--which some authors claim they did not actually receive before their titles were removed from sale--pertains to authors who've used titles of other books in … [Read more...] about Amazon Cracks Down on Bogus Keywords
Apple iPad Market Share Projected to Shrink in 2014
Research firm Canalys has predicted the rise of tablet PCs to continue unabated in 2014, by which time it could be seen emerging as a level player vis-à-vis the notebooks and desktop PCs. Canalys has pegged the rise in tablet shipments to settle around the 50 percent mark of all PC shipment, with the desktops and notebooks together making up the rest of PC shipments. Of the … [Read more...] about Apple iPad Market Share Projected to Shrink in 2014
NewsHunt Ventures Into eBook Space in India
The news aggregating app NewsHunt is the newest to enter the ebook scene in India. The above development couldn't have come at a better time for the company which has reached the milestone of recording over a billion page views a month. The company achieved this feat in four years after its inception in June 2009. On offer will be ebooks in several Indian languages, something … [Read more...] about NewsHunt Ventures Into eBook Space in India
Archie and iVerse CEOs Talk Archie Unlimited
With the launch of the latest version of its app, Archie Comics is combining two different types of digital comics services: Readers can buy comics one at a time (as they do with comiXology and Comics Plus) or they can subscribe to an "all-you-can-eat" service that allows them to read thousands of comics for a single monthly fee (similar to Marvel Unlimited). Both of these … [Read more...] about Archie and iVerse CEOs Talk Archie Unlimited
Barnes and Noble Nook Hardware Sales Down 41.3%
Barnes and Noble has just released their 3rd quarter financial results and things are not looking good. The company has seen a decline of 41.3% in Nook e-Reader, Tablet and Accessory sales and the entire division only brought in $51 million dollars. eBook sales were also down 21.2% due to the lower average selling prices of books and total sales were $57 million. Part of the … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Nook Hardware Sales Down 41.3%