Amazon Initiates Shipping Incentives in UK Following the lead of Amazon.com stateside, the online retail giant’s customers awoke… Mercy Pilkington7 January 2014One comment2 minute read
It Pays to Be Small: Zola Buys Book Discovery Site Bookish It’s a tough time to be selling ebooks if you’re not Amazon.… Mercy Pilkington7 January 2014One comment2 minute read
Smashwords, Wattpad See Increase in Use In the past year, open reading platform and forum Wattpad saw an… Mercy Pilkington6 January 2014One comment2 minute read
Things Looking Up for Lonely Planet The market for guidebooks has suffered in recent years, with a number… Mercy Pilkington6 January 20142 comments2 minute read
Consumers Warned Against “Showrooming” A name has been given to an evil that plagues independent bookstores,… Mercy Pilkington5 January 201414 comments2 minute read
eBook Review: The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd Verdict: 3 Stars Shepherd’s second title, The Poisoned Island (Washington Square Press), had… Mercy Pilkington5 January 2014One comment2 minute read
Newest Technology to Hit Books: 3D Printing How-to books are nothing new. They teach readers to cook, tie knots,… Mercy Pilkington2 January 2014No comments2 minute read
Smashwords’ Predictions for Publishing in 2014 This time of year brings with it a host of predictions from… Mercy Pilkington31 December 2013One comment2 minute read
More Publishers Begin to Accept Unagented Submissions Prior to the current digital publishing and self-publishing revolutions, the process for… Mercy Pilkington31 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Reading Improves Brain Function…Who Knew? Your fifth grade English teacher was right, you should read a book.… Mercy Pilkington30 December 2013One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: The Redhead Plays Her Hand by Alice Clayton Verdict: 5 Stars In the final installment in the series which Clayton… Mercy Pilkington29 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Judge Rules on Sherlock Holmes Public Domain Case With the dramatic changes that have been taking place in the publishing… Mercy Pilkington28 December 2013One comment2 minute read
What’s Up with Amazon Royalties Coming Down? The debate over the most recent accusations about how Amazon is destroying… Mercy Pilkington27 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Number of Children’s Challenged Books Increased in 2013 With the advent of digital reading, digital publishing, and self-publishing in their… Mercy Pilkington27 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Sex Sells: Big Foot, Gargoyles, and Erotica, Oh My! It’s no secret that romance and erotica top the list of bestselling… Mercy Pilkington24 December 2013One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: Topless Jihadis by Jeffrey Tayler Verdict: 5 Stars Its full title, Topless Jihadis—Inside Femen, the World’s Most… Mercy Pilkington22 December 2013One comment2 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
Ebook Bundles Add Value, Discovery to Authors’ Works As authors and publishers clamor to help their titles be found in… Mercy Pilkington20 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Oyster eBook Subscription Gets Titles from Perseus When subscription reading was first introduced several years ago, companies like Spain-based… Mercy Pilkington20 December 20132 comments2 minute read
New Book Discovery Engine Novelry Aids Searchability One of the key issues plaguing an admittedly glutted ebook market is… Mercy Pilkington19 December 2013One comment2 minute read