13 Japanese Companies Band Together to Challenge Amazon Online retailer Rakuten have joined forces with a dozen other companies in… Sovan Mandal23 December 2013No comments1 minute read
Too Much Choice Can Impede eBook Sales A post by Shannon of the DuoLit team from earlier this year… Mercy Pilkington22 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Elevating Amazon to a Divine Status As news came out that Amazon’s stock has reached an all-time high–only… Mercy Pilkington22 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon’s List of Bestselling Titles of 2013 While retailers around the world–both in the book industry and out of… Mercy Pilkington17 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon China Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary Amazon Kindle China has officially been open for one full year and… Michael Kozlowski14 December 20133 comments2 minute read
Judge Throws Out Conspiracy Case Against Amazon, Publishers At the same time five of the then-Big Six publishers and Apple… Mercy Pilkington12 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Quebec’s Book Price Fixing Law Can Ruin the Book Economy The government of Quebec has gone forward with a law that was… Mercy Pilkington11 December 20135 comments2 minute read
One Quarter of Top 100 Amazon Kindle Titles in the US Are Self-Published Amazon revealed that as many as 25 out of 100 of its… Sovan Mandal5 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Launches New Short Story Publishing Imprint StoryFront One of the most potentially useful features of digital publishing was the… Mercy Pilkington4 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Launches 12 Days of Deals Amazon has relaunched its reader-centric promotion from last year’s holiday season, Twelve… Mercy Pilkington3 December 2013One comment1 minute read
Amazon Australia a Source of Concern to Booksellers, Publishers Every time Amazon branches out into a new territory, concerned booksellers, publishers,… Mercy Pilkington3 December 2013No comments2 minute read
December Kindle First Titles Released Last month, Amazon’s traditional publishing arm and its host of imprints at… Mercy Pilkington2 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Most Visited Website on Black Friday Many US-based retailers and business owners came into the holidays this year… Mercy Pilkington2 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Send in the Drones – Meet Amazon Air Prime One of Amazon’s greatest strengths has been the massive expansion of their… Michael Kozlowski2 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Opens a Series of pop-up Stores in San Francisco Amazon has officially opened a series of pop-up stores in retail malls… Michael Kozlowski1 December 2013One comment1 minute read
Amazon Launches Instant Online Video Service in Japan Amazon has unveiled another of its popular services, Instant Video, in Japan… Sovan Mandal28 November 2013One comment1 minute read
Self-Published Bestsellers Available for Holiday Reading Just in time for the holidays, GalleyCat has released its weekly bestseller… Mercy Pilkington27 November 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Cracks Down on Bogus Keywords A growing number of self-published authors are receiving ominous emails from ebook… Mercy Pilkington27 November 20132 comments2 minute read
Amazon adds Goodreads Functionality to Kindle Fire HDX Amazon acquired the eBook social community website GoodReads back in March for… Michael Kozlowski18 November 2013One comment4 minute read
NZ Classic Books Released in eBook Format Auckland University Press has released more than 240 classic books from the… Sovan Mandal18 November 2013No comments2 minute read