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Indie Authors Need to Develop a Thick Skin for Bad eBook Reviews

Self-Published authors often have to do a great deal more then simply…

What Does Amazon Owe the World?

Amazon, the world’s largest online retail bookseller, has long enjoyed the status…

Publishing Without Barnes & Noble

Since Barnes & Noble announced that the company is sinking faster than…

Is Windows 8 and RT Doomed to Fail Against Android?

Microsoft is trying to push hardware manufacturers to either adopt Windows 8…

Why the Vast Majority of Newspaper Paywalls Will Fail

Some of the largest national newspaper publishers in North America have shifted…

How eBooks Are Fueling Untraditional Sales Outlets

Inside of publishing, there is tremendous concern around the declining number of…

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…

A Few Indie Authors Are Ruining the eBook Discovery Experience

Thousands of self-published authors release new ebooks every single month and most…

The Vast Majority of Indie Authors Will Never be Taken Seriously

The vast majority of indie authors don’t contribute anything good to the…

Self-Published Authors Are Destroying Literature

  Self-published authors with their insistent need to spam social media and…

53 Million People Choose Good e-Reader

When Good e-Reader first burst onto the scene in 2009, the e-reader…

The Future of eBooks – The Death of the Online eBook Store

Independent bookstores are on the ropes and simply cannot compete in today’s…

Why Kobo and Sony Are Losing the Digital Race

Sony and Kobo are in big trouble with their current business model…

German Digital Publishing Industry in a State of Flux Due to Amazon

The digital adoption rate in Germany two years ago was a paltry…

Is Social Reading the Future of eBooks? I Hope Not!

In the past, if you wanted to read socially, you had to…

Why Kobo Should Implement QR Codes and WIFI to Build Digital Synergy with Indie Bookstores

Many bookstore chains in Canada and the US do not actively promote…

Why the Penguin Merger with Random House Will Kill Overdrive

Most libraries in North American tend to do business with Overdrive to…

Hey, I’m Back, Please Take My Money

This morning, I ran across a mention of an e-book about comics…

Why Was Agency Pricing Established? To Save Our Bookstores

Over the course of the last five years, e-commerce giant Amazon has definitively…

Could Bookstores Start Charging People to Read?

If you walk into any major Barnes and Noble or Chapters bookstores,…

Why eBook Companies in Canada Are Nonexistent

Electronic Books have been around for well over a decade, with PDF…

Is Amazon AutoRip a Precursor for Free Digital Books?

Amazon unveiled a new music service last week that will give you…

Inserting Ads in eBooks: New Concept or an Existing Idea Being Adopted by the Market?

The recent ruling in the United States, where a jury awarded Apple…