Ready to write some fan fic? Amazon may have some money for you. The company says it will license rights to popular books, games, movies and other content to let independent authors write their own stories based on those worlds, and receive royalties from sales of their fan fiction through the company’s Kindle Store. The… Read More…
People who purchased certain e-books from Amazon, Apple and other digital retailers will receive payouts estimated to range from 30 cents to $1.32 per title under a proposed price-fixing settlement between three book publishers and U.S. states. The payouts will come from a $69 million fund established using settlement money from the publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins and… Read More…
Amazon.com’s New York-based publishing business has entered into a deal with Ingram to distribute its e-book titles, opening up the possibility that competitors such as Barnes & Noble, Kobo or Apple could carry the works, paidContent reports. There’s no guarantee that any of those rivals will actually carry e-books published by Amazon, and paidContent’s Laura… Read More…
Apple isn’t merely contesting allegations that it conspired with major book publishers to fix prices in the e-book industry, it’s disputing them vehemently. That much is clear based on a new filing from the company laying out its defense in the case. “The Government sides with monopoly, rather than competition, in bringing this case,” Apple… Read More…
A little more than a year ago, Amazon launched its “Kindle Singles” e-book program, seeking to establish a niche for content somewhere between a magazine article and a full-length book. It’s a carefully curated program that operates a lot like an app store for books, with titles selling for 99 cents to $4.99, and authors… Read More…
In its quest for an edge in the digital book market, Apple just stepped on some very big toes. Author Seth Godin, a.k.a. “America’s Greatest Marketer,” says in a blog post that Apple is declining to carry the e-book version of his new manifesto, Stop Stealing Dreams, because the bibliography includes links to buy, from… Read More…
Amazon.com is out today with its list of the Best Books of 2011, its editors’ picks of the top 100 titles of the year. This is less than a week after the company rolled out its new Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, allowing Amazon Prime subscribers to borrow one book a month. So how many of… Read More…
Amazon.com is has begun publicly testing its new Kindle e-book lending program at two major library systems in its home region, the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, in apparent preparation for a larger national rollout. The news was reported earlier by Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader, after Seattle-area library users noticed… Read More…
After visiting Amazon.com in Seattle recently, legendary fantasy and science fiction writer George R.R. Martin observed that the company was “selling lots o’ books.” He wasn’t kidding. The author of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, has become the latest person to sell more than 1 million Kindle books, marking his entry into the… Read More…
Amazon wants to bring the concept of digital subscriptions to electronic books — opening up a catalog of content to people who pay an annual fee, according to a Wall Street Journal report today, citing anonymous sources. Some sites are calling the idea “a Netflix for books,” but just to be clear, that’s a reference… Read More…
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