One of Europe's leading ebook distribution sites, XinXii, has quietly been making indie authors' works available in markets that very few e-retailers are reaching, quickly growing to be one of the major forces in self-publishing across a variety of languages and borders. In an effort to continue to make the platform available to authors throughout the EU, the platform unveiled … [Read more...] about German eBook Distributor XinXii Rolls Out New Author Tools
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Give the Gift of Subscription Reading this Holiday Season
Sometimes, it's not enough to know that Aunt Janet loves to read, and therefore should be given a book for Christmas. Has she read that book already? Does she even like mysteries? Is Aunt Janet going to be offended by the language of explicit nature of this particular book? With the advent of digital publishing and ebooks, even gift cards can be difficult. An Amazon gift … [Read more...] about Give the Gift of Subscription Reading this Holiday Season
Foreign Markets, Translations Are Crucial to Self-Published Authors
With so much emphasis placed on the expansion into foreign markets at this year's FutureBook event, where even the major ebook distribution platforms were discussing their investment and planning in global expansion, self-published authors truly stand to benefit from the opening of larger reader markets, but only if they are prepared to do so. An author who establishes an … [Read more...] about Foreign Markets, Translations Are Crucial to Self-Published Authors
Amazon’s Newest Foreign Kindle Markets
Amazon launched its Spanish Kindle store today and its Italian Kindle store today, making those only the fourth and fifth languages to be digitally compatible with the Kindle e-readers. It launched with a catalog of around 22,000 Spanish titles and 16,000 Italian titles, including popular bestsellers. Both stores include access to around 900,000 titles in other languages, … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Newest Foreign Kindle Markets
XinXii and Casa del Libro Forge Partnership
Europe’s leading ebook distribution platform, XinXii, has formed a partnership with the largest bookselling chain in Spain to incorporate its self-published ebook titles into Casa del Libro’s online store. While Casa del Libro has thirty-seven physical locations throughout the country, its online store has over seven million registered users who will now be able to access all … [Read more...] about XinXii and Casa del Libro Forge Partnership
Ebook of the Week: Stephen Booth
This week’s GoodEReader.com Ebook of the Week, while possibly living up to the adages "good things come to those who wait" and “better late than never,” is a work of crime fiction from author Stephen Booth entitled Claws. “On the wild moors of England's Peak District, young police detective DC Ben Cooper is assigned to investigate the growing problem of wildlife crime. Cooper … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week: Stephen Booth
Free eBook of the Week: Kait Nolan
Once again this week, GoodEReader.com is highlighting an additional international ebook through the ebook distribution platform XinXii. This week’s second title is the YA paranormal romance Red by Kait Nolan. In the author’s words, Red involves a young girl fighting for control over her emergence into a wolf shifter who must avoid execution by a man bent on exterminating her … [Read more...] about Free eBook of the Week: Kait Nolan
Ebook of the Week Feature Brings Readers International Content
The popularity of GoodEReader.com’s new Ebook of the Week feature has attracted attention from authors and readers literally around the world. In light of the requests we’ve received from both writers and fans, this week we’re proud to introduce a second free ebook in German. Author Nina Buschmann, whose title Wo bitte geht's hier um die Welt? - 8 Jahre Abenteuer und … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week Feature Brings Readers International Content
Ebook Spam Could Be the End of the Digital Publishing Industry
When e-readers first appeared, the naysayers swore it would never catch on. That claim has now been laid to rest, in light of news that e-books are outselling print on many platforms. But the ebook industry faces a severe threat, a new technique of spamming and piracy that may be enough to cause readers to abandon their devices and return to good old fashioned hard copy text … [Read more...] about Ebook Spam Could Be the End of the Digital Publishing Industry
XinXii Now to Support an HTML5-Based Readability
German-based XinXii, a digital content publishing site launched in Europe in 2008, has made some pioneering moves in that short time. As one of the first digital self-publishing sites to operate in several different languages and currencies, it established itself early on as a user-friendly source for buying and selling online books, documents, and audio downloads. Today, … [Read more...] about XinXii Now to Support an HTML5-Based Readability
XinXii Faces Healthy Competition From Amazon and Kobo
Since 2008, German digital publishing site XinXii has enabled writers and document creators to electronically publish manuscripts and papers through its site to sixteen different e-reader formats. The beauty of XinXii’s publishing model is its simplicity; the author chooses the format, sets the price, retains the rights to the work, and receives a 70% royalty for the real-time … [Read more...] about XinXii Faces Healthy Competition From Amazon and Kobo
Germany’s leading online self-publishing platform XinXii goes international
Following the big announcement of the launch of Barnes & Noble's self-publishing portal PubIt! yesterday, we have more news today, of an another big player in the self-publishing world. This one hails out of Germany. The service is called XinXii. It is Germany's largest self-publishing-to-ebook platform -- but they are trying to expand. A spokesperson from XinXii … [Read more...] about Germany’s leading online self-publishing platform XinXii goes international