Amazon UK has reported today that for the first time, online ebook sales are surpassing print. This is a huge growth, considering Amazon only entered the United Kingdom two years ago and started to offer e-readers and ebooks. According to unaudited figures issued by Amazon today, since the start of 2012 customers downloaded 114 ebooks for every 100 hardback and paperback … [Read more...] about Amazon eBook Sales Have Overtaken Print in the UK
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Indie Author at the Top of the Amazon UK List
Despite the predictions that rang in the digital age of reading, traditional publishing and paper books haven’t disappeared, and many publishers have even prospered with their adaptations to the new technology. At the same time, new platforms launch literally daily that afford authors the opportunity to take charge of their own works and put them in the hands of the reading … [Read more...] about Indie Author at the Top of the Amazon UK List
Amazon Benefits from Higher VAT in the UK for eBooks
Parliament in the United Kingdom recently convened to discuss the issue of lowering the VAT on ebooks sold in the country. Many publishing companies wanted to lower the 20% extra people pay for their digital ebooks. A few days ago they again decided not to reduce the fee, which is a boon for Amazon. The Bookseller reports David Gauke, the UK’s exchequer secretary, said the UK … [Read more...] about Amazon Benefits from Higher VAT in the UK for eBooks
Publishers Joining the Ebook-Only Venture
With all of the buzz—both positive and extremely negative—surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook-only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out-of-print and author-held rights’ books. Bloomsbury Publishing, an … [Read more...] about Publishers Joining the Ebook-Only Venture