Ebooks: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Rest of the World
In much of the world, digital reading hasn’t taken off with nearly the strength that the United States market has seen.
In much of the world, digital reading hasn’t taken off with nearly the strength that the United States market has seen.
Next week, Reedsy will debut its new Editor tool, and CEO Emmanuel Nataf has given us a sneak preview.
We recently discussed Amazon’s new plan to implement tougher formatting standards on self-published ebooks uploaded via Amazon KDP.
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the number of Facebook and WhatsApp users and the average revenue per user in key countries.
Publishers don’t have processes in place to coordinate marketing efforts with authors. Any traditionally published author has likely experienced that lack of collaboration, and consultant Mike Shatzkin argues that it’s increasingly important, revenue-wise, for publishers to solve this problem. Read his full post. In Europe, Amazon had a difficult 2015. Publishing Trends summarizes the key events, concluding . … Read more
2015 saw considerable changes and reorganization in the ebook subscription market. Here’s where we’ve been and where the market may be headed.
The Hot Sheet Index reviewed the number of ebooks statistics relative to BookBub discount deals and library circulation.
2015 is the first full year that self-publishing authors had access to preorder capability for their ebooks on Amazon.
Earlier this fall, ebook distributor Draft2Digital announced a partnership with Tolino to distribute ebooks to the German market. Smashwords, the biggest ebook distributor for indie authors, has now announced the same.
Munich-based journalist and self-publishing author Matthias Matting has offered a response to the article at Smashwords we’ve mentioned elsewhere in this issue.