Citing a recent survey, Galleycat says that while Fiction accounts for 89.5% of overall sales at the Smashwords Indie publishing platform, 50% of them are Romance titles.
Category: Indie publish
Apr 19
Supreme Court passes on Google book copying case
Digital Book World reports on the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to review the fair use finding in the ten-year-old book copying case against Google.
Apr 17
Russian platform vKontakte going after eBook pirates
TorrentFreak reports that Russian social networking platform vKontakte is FINALLY cracking down on eBook piracy. The marketplace expected that there would be some eBook piracy, but things are out of control. And up until now, it seemed there was very little being done about it. Let’s hope this is just the first of many efforts to slow …
Apr 15
OverDrive signs 500 new publishers
Digital Book World reports that industry-leading distribution platform for eBooks and audiobooks OverDrive has added 500 new publishers to its Global eBook Catalog.
Apr 14
Amazon veers away from democratized eBook reading
Techspective continues the discussion about the expensive new Kindle Oasis eReader as Amazon increases the price of reading an eBook by adding bells and whistles few have asked for. The Oasis is a good looking piece of hardware, but the online retail giant has forgotten it once championed the low cost, convenience and accessibility of eBooks. …
Apr 12
Details leak on new Kindle eReader
The Verge has an update on leaked details (including photos) of the new Kindle eReader.
Apr 11
New report predicts US eBook market to reach $13-Billion by 2020
Talking New Media reports that the US eBook Market will continue to grow to $13-Billion by 2020.
Apr 06
Facebook to become world’s biggest eBookstore?
Digital Book World says Facebook could become the world’s largest eBook discovery and sales platform.
Mar 30
A coalition of public libraries cries foul on publisher eBook pricing
Canadian Public Libraries for Fair eBook Pricing represents a coalition of public libraries that want to expose the rip-off pricing forced on them by publishers.
Mar 29
Indie eBooks sales increase in UK over 2015
Bustle reports that Indie eBooks accounted for 22% of the UK eBook sales in 2015. That marks an increase over traditionally published eBook sales that declined during the same period.
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