Amazon has just sent out an email to authors and publishers that states "eBook season is just getting started. With so many new E-readers being unwrapped this month, there's never been a better time to start promoting your eBooks." If you are not aware, Amazon is referring their own pay per click advertising program that helps with discoverability when users are typing in … [Read more...] about Amazon is encouraging authors to advertise their ebooks
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Poll – What Devices Do you Read eBooks On?
We live in a world where everyone has a smartphone in their pocket and a tablet in their home. E-Readers continue to be be popular with serious readers and in 2017 they have undergone a resurgence in popularity. What is the one device people read eBooks on the most? Over 3,000 people responded to our latest poll and the results are not at all shocking. E-Readers were the … [Read more...] about Poll – What Devices Do you Read eBooks On?
B&N Black Friday Book Shopping
Just in time for your Black Friday book-gift giving, Barnes and Noble has released its list of the best books of 2017. By breaking down their top picks into genre-based category lists, there's bound to be a title for everyone on your list. “2017 was a great year in books, with some of the biggest authors in the industry coming out with highly anticipated new works and some … [Read more...] about B&N Black Friday Book Shopping
Amazon is giving out free $2 credit to Start a New Book Series
Amazon is giving out $2.00 in free credit for readers who want to Start a New Kindle Series. There are over four hundred ebooks available and they are primarily split between four different genres; literature, mystery, romance and science fiction & fantasy. To purchase a Kindle book that is apart of this promotion, click the "Buy now with 1-Click" button. Please note that … [Read more...] about Amazon is giving out free $2 credit to Start a New Book Series
Amazon Selects Non-Fiction Title as Best Book of the Year
Just ahead of the holidays, Amazon has released its annual Best Books of the Year list, selecting a non-fiction title for the number one spot for the first time since 2010. The list, curated by Amazon's editors, includes both adult and children's titles, as well as some other key findings from the staff. Some notable findings about this year's list include: The authors … [Read more...] about Amazon Selects Non-Fiction Title as Best Book of the Year
Students Still Don’t Interact with Digital as Effectively as Print
The era of the digital native still hasn't morphed to include education, at least not according to new findings from Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer. Their study and review of other sources over the past many years find that students might perceive they do better when they use a digital textbook, but the measurable outcome doesn't support that perception. One of … [Read more...] about Students Still Don’t Interact with Digital as Effectively as Print
CreateSpace Is Closing Its Online Bookstore
Amazon owns CreateSpace, the print-on-demand solution that allows indie authors to produce print editions of their work and then seamlessly integrate them into Amazon's online bookstore. CreateSpace started out as an independent company before being bought by the online retailer some time ago, and as such, CS has kept its own online bookstore in operation all this time. But … [Read more...] about CreateSpace Is Closing Its Online Bookstore
New Bowker Study Finds Increasing Growth in SelfPub ISBNs
If there was still doubt in anyone's mind that self-publishing is not only viable but here to stay, a new report from Bowker might cement it once and for all. The rate of ISBN purchase for self-published books has increased by more than 218% since 2011, back when the digital revolution arguably took off. The Bowker report, "Self-Publishing in the United States, 2011-2016 Print … [Read more...] about New Bowker Study Finds Increasing Growth in SelfPub ISBNs
Are Digital Textbooks Finally Taking Hold?
We're closing in on nearly a decade since ebooks first moved away from being a niche technology novelty and became a household object. In those early years of the current phase of this digital publishing revolution, ebooks were being hailed as the new frontier of educational publishing. While multiple surveys discovered that kids didn't like reading ebooks for fun, they had no … [Read more...] about Are Digital Textbooks Finally Taking Hold?
Scholastic Releases Latest Kids’ Reading Report
In celebration of International Literacy Day last week, Scholastic has some great news: kids are reading. Despite the naysayers and gloom and doomers who think the entire juvenile world is too busy with their faces buried in digital devices, the self-response survey indicates that as many as 86% of kids up to age 17 think reading is an important key to their future … [Read more...] about Scholastic Releases Latest Kids’ Reading Report
We Live in a Literary World of Terrible Self-Published Authors
There are a copious number of online self-publishing companies that promise aspiring authors the opportunity to distribute their ebook all over the world. Millions of authors publish with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Draft2Digital, Kobo Writing Life, Nook Press and Smashwords. Most "authors" who self-publish an ebook never sell more than a handful and over 75% of all … [Read more...] about We Live in a Literary World of Terrible Self-Published Authors