Besides spreading the good news about the sales of some of its newly released titles, Amazon Publishing’s Vice President Jeff Belle shared some interesting news to a field of literary agents and publishing industry professionals: Amazon Publishing is crossing the pond. According to the letter, early next year the traditional-model publishing arm of Amazon will expand into … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Reaches into Europe
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Amazon Publishing Gains Backlist Titles from Avalon
Amazon grew its publishing arm this week with the purchase of publisher Avalon Books, while will include the rights to over three thousand backlist titles previously published by Avalon. These books will be placed in the various imprints of Amazon Publishing by genre depending on whether they are romance, Western, or mystery. Avalon has been well-known and well-respected as a … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Gains Backlist Titles from Avalon
Amazon Announces List of New Release Titles
Despite the previous whirlwind week that included the Department of Justice going forward with a lawsuit against Apple and two publishers for colluding to force Amazon to raise the prices of its ebooks, as well as the launch of a new device from one of Amazon’s key competitors that does something that no current Kindle can do, Amazon calmly announced several highly anticipated … [Read more...] about Amazon Announces List of New Release Titles
James Atlas, Amazon Partner Up on Amazon Lives
A clear message was sent to the publishing industry as a whole—both indie and traditional—last May when Amazon announced the formation of its traditional model publishing house Amazon Publishing, followed by the even more startling news that it had lured traditional publishing icon Laurence Kirshbaum to lead it. The message that came through was that the online … [Read more...] about James Atlas, Amazon Partner Up on Amazon Lives
Amazon Creates a One-Stop Process
When Amazon.com first launched its online bookselling site that offered countless print titles to be shipped worldwide, there was speculation that it would be the death of bookstores. When it broadened its retail offerings to include items usually found in department stores, it was going to signal the end of brick-and-mortar shopping. When the retailer launched its Kindle … [Read more...] about Amazon Creates a One-Stop Process
Amazon’s Publishing Arm Expands to a New Genre
Amazon has broken a lot of molds in the business of books, starting with its own online retail model and expanding outward. As the parent company over two distinctly different methods of independent publishing—CreateSpace for print-on-demand physical books and Kindle Direct Publishing for ebooks—the opportunities for book development are more available than ever. Earlier … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Publishing Arm Expands to a New Genre
Amazon Publishing Proves It Can Draw Big Names
When Amazon Publishing first got its feet wet in the industry in May of this year with the announcement that it was stocking the executive staff of its new publishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn’t enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant’s new venture would never work. As recently as a week … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Proves It Can Draw Big Names
Amazon Publishing Partnering with the Competition
It seems that crawling into bed with the enemy is the new norm for successful business models. First, France’s Hachette Livre inked a deal to digitize its books with Google, a massive surprise given the tremendous anti-Google sentiments coming from the French publishing and bookselling industries. Then, as Amazon Publishing—the bookselling and self-publishing giant’s strictly … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Partnering with the Competition
Amazon Publishing Keeping Its Distance from Indie Publishing
Amazon has made some of the largest strides in ushering in a new publishing model, larger than possibly any other major name, adopting models for self-publishing print books through its adoption of CreateSpace. Amazon has three distinctly separate publishing models under its wing, with CreateSpace for print-on-demand hard copy books, a digital self-publishing model for ebooks … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Keeping Its Distance from Indie Publishing
Amazon Kindle Publishing for Periodicals beta program for Newspaper and Magazine Publishers
Kobo and the Barnes and Noble Nook Color are not the only E-Reader companies with publishing agreements in place for magazines and newspapers, but it looks like Amazon has gotten into the mix as well. Amazon is offering a new beta program for publishers to submit content to their service to be displayed on their Kindle line of E-Readers. They are allowing free signups for … [Read more...] about Amazon Kindle Publishing for Periodicals beta program for Newspaper and Magazine Publishers