James Patterson works with a team of writers to produce ten novels a year and most of them hit the New York Times bestseller list. In order to sell more books Patterson is going to double his workload and start writing four novels a month that are 150 pages or less.The latest Patterson venture is called BookShots and it will be like “reading movies”. The shorter, cheaper … [Read more...] about James Patterson is going to produce 4 new books a month
E-Book News
New Harry Potter Books to be Published
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a new movie coming out this year and takes place in the Harry Potter universe. This has prompted Scholastic to attain the rights for new movie tie-in books in multiple formats. Under the agreement, Scholastic will publish children’s movie tie-in books for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and its sequels, as well as tie-in books … [Read more...] about New Harry Potter Books to be Published
Kobo Sponsors e-book Design Competition
Rakuten Kobo will be providing a $2,500 cash prize for ebookcraft's inaugural So You Think You Can Code ebook design competition, taking place in Toronto this spring with participants from Canada and abroad.The winning team or individual will be announced at ebookcraft on Thursday, March 31, 2016 and entries will be shared publicly following the competition with valuable … [Read more...] about Kobo Sponsors e-book Design Competition
Scribd Officially Transitions from an Unlimited e-Book Service
Scribd announced last month that they were changing their business model from an unlimited service to a credit based one. Every month users receive three credits that they can use to read e-books or to listen to audiobooks. There are a small pool of Scribd Select titles that can be read without spending credits and today there is a new blog post that lists a number of … [Read more...] about Scribd Officially Transitions from an Unlimited e-Book Service
eBook Sales Fell 12.7% in the First 11 Months of 2015
The Association of American Publishers have just released their monthly Stateshot report that covers the first 11 months of 2015. e-Book sales have fallen 12.7% while print increased by 1.2% during the same period.Overall publisher revenue for the 11-month period was $13.9 billion, down 2.6% from the previous year. These numbers include sales for all tracked categories … [Read more...] about eBook Sales Fell 12.7% in the First 11 Months of 2015
Barnes and Noble Launches a New Website
Barnes and Noble totally revised their online website last summer and it was riddled with errors close to six months after the launch. Users complained that the B&N online marketplace was not paying them for orders and the online Nook e-reading software was busted. There was also online documentation and help files that resolved to 404 links. Today, Barnes and Noble has … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Launches a New Website
Would you Rent an e-book? Readfy Hopes So
There are thousands of online retailers that sell e-books and only a small handful that have adopted the unlimited subscription model. When it comes to rentals, the only digital editions that are currently available are textbooks. A small German startup called Readfy is hoping that customers are willing to rent an e-book for 0.99 euros and 4.99 euros, saving between 30% and … [Read more...] about Would you Rent an e-book? Readfy Hopes So
The KDP Select Global Fund for February is $14 million
Amazon has just announced that the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Global fund for February is $14 million dollars. This allows authors who publish exclusively with Amazon to earn money whenever people read their book, after a certain number of pages.Right now the KDP Select fund is under fire with scammers who are encouraging users to jump from the front of the book, … [Read more...] about The KDP Select Global Fund for February is $14 million
Barnes and Noble CDO Doesn’t Care About Amazon
Barnes and Noble has two different aspects to their core business, their bookstores and the Nook. The two are intertwined and in order to stay competitive you have to remain one step ahead of Amazon. Fred Argir, chief digital officer at Barnes & Noble apparently does not care what Amazon is doing.Argir spoke at the Digital Book World conference in New York last week and … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble CDO Doesn’t Care About Amazon
NetGalley Launches in Germany
Netgalley is one of the most successful companies operating in the digital publishing sector. Publishers normally submit e-books to their platform before they are commercially available. They do this because they know readers will write reviews and give their titles free publicity. NetGalley is expanding into Germany this week, at netgalley.de, in cooperation with … [Read more...] about NetGalley Launches in Germany
Hundreds of Rare Music Manuscripts Now Available for Free Online
Over 500 rare music manuscripts have been digitized and are now available for free online. The Morgan Library’s Music Manuscripts Online initiative houses handwritten sheet music from Mozart, Bach, Chopin and other luminaries. Morgan has also acknowledged that they have plans to add essays about the manuscripts by leading scholars.The Morgan library houses the entire … [Read more...] about Hundreds of Rare Music Manuscripts Now Available for Free Online
How Do You Monitor Your e-Reading Progress?
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo offer different ways to monitor the progress in your favorite eBook. Some rely on the overall percentage left in a specific chapter, while others display a total reading time. Good e-Reader looked into the most popular ways people like to monitor their own reading progress and would like to give you a sense of our data.829 eBook readers … [Read more...] about How Do You Monitor Your e-Reading Progress?
Why do kids prefer to read print and not ebooks?
Nearly two-thirds of children will always want to read print books even though there are ebooks available. Literacy advocate and teacher Donna Rasmussen thinks this is because “We are tactile creatures. We will judge books by their covers and that’s okay,” she said. “We do many creative things with books we can’t with digital, like building a poetry out of book … [Read more...] about Why do kids prefer to read print and not ebooks?
The US Publishing Industry Really Wants to Sell Books in Cuba
The entire US publishing industry is salivating at the opportunity to get their books sold in Cuba They are doing it with good reason, Cuba is one of the few countries in the world that has a 100% literacy rate. This is a market that is starting to see possible relaxed restrictions on imports due to the US government easing a longstanding embargo.Last month a 40 member … [Read more...] about The US Publishing Industry Really Wants to Sell Books in Cuba