April 19, 2017 | The Hot Sheet

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The Atlantic recently wrote about the “great retail apocalypse” and its causes, including the growth of mobile shopping.

The Hot Sheet Index looks at Amazon sales and retailer bankruptcies.

Links of interest for April 19, 2017,on the topics of marketing, Amazon, and Traditional Publishing.

Authors Guild has launched an e-publishing guide and is open to self-publishing as well as aspiring writers.

Germany is considered the West’s “third power” in self-publishing, after US and UK.

Amazon is offering free software to create an ebook file from Word.

Alternatives to Amazon KDP’s reporting interface.

Kobo has purchased Shelfie technology after the Shelfie startup inexplicably went under.