With the holiday shopping weekend still in full swing in the US, two exciting opportunities still await readers. Today marks the local-business oriented Small Business Saturday across the country, when shoppers who didn't complete their discount buying during yesterday's Black Friday sales are reminded to support their locally-owned independent shops. This year, that show of … [Read more...] about More Exciting Book Opportunities for Reading Shoppers
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Google Cancels Affiliate Status for a Number of Booksellers
In the current climate of struggle to stay afloat as an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore, many small time booksellers have found a friend in Google’s eBookstore. For consumers who felt compelled to support their local independent bookstore while still enjoying the benefits of e-reading, affiliates programs allowed them to purchase their ebooks while still giving their … [Read more...] about Google Cancels Affiliate Status for a Number of Booksellers
If Amazon Can Do It…
It seems that more and more people have access to creating a book these days, whether it is through the large number of publishers both big and small, a print-on-demand service like CreateSpace or Lightning Source, or any of the independent presses that are springing up to meet the needs of authors who are tired of playing the publishing game. Salon.com featured an article on … [Read more...] about If Amazon Can Do It…