eBook Rumors – Page 291 – Rumors about eBooks, eReaders, and Digital Publishing

Nov 04

Amazon to slash Kindle Unlimited payouts

A Smashwords blog post reports Amazon slashing author payouts as Kindle Unlimited fails to impress India readers with the $9.99 monthly eBook subscription. The online retail giant is dropping the fee to $3 and taking the difference out of authors’ pockets.

With Amazon changing the deal again so soon after its summertime switch to pay-by-the-page, it looks like industry insiders were right about the Netflix for eBooks business model being a no-win scenario that only works if authors are kept in the poorhouse.

Will exclusive “select” Indies continue to underwrite the Kindle-maker’s global ambitions by taking a smaller “share,” or will they head for the nearest door?

Last I heard, there is still a professional eBook market out there that actually pays royalties to independent authors for each title sold.

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Nov 03

Amazon announces poetry contest

Digital Book World reports that Amazon’s Little A publishing imprint is sponsoring a contest for up and coming poets.

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Nov 02

The best Kindle for you

Trusted Reviews offers its opinion on the best Kindle for you to buy.

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Nov 01

Calibre 2.42 upgrade supports new NookGlowLight Plus.

Softpedia reports that the free eBook library management software Calibre 2.42 upgrade supports the new NookGlowlight Plus.

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Oct 30

WILDCLOWN RETURNS IN HARD-BOILED ZOMBIE THRILLER

The Night Once More: A Wildclown Novel by G. Wells Taylor is available for pre-order at select locations starting this Halloween in advance of its December 10, 2015 launch.

In The Night Once More a wanderer on the road keeps losing track of time…and place. His only clues to who he is come from the many fatal wounds on his body and the recurring nightmares of a doomsday cop, a gunslinging clown and a maniac on a mission from God. Are they echoes from his past life, or is he haunted by something that followed him back from the grave?

Visit GWellsTaylor.com to pre-order this sequel to 2008’s Menagerie and download sample chapters and FREE updated editions of Taylor’s popular Horror titles: When Graveyards Yawn (A Wildclown Origin Novel), The Urn (Dracula of the Apes Trilogy Book 1), Skin Eaters (The Variant Effect Series Book 1) and Painkiller (A Variant Effect Novella).

In The Night Once More return to the World of Change where people stopped aging, the dead rose from their graves, it started raining and it’s been raining ever since. But a guy’s got to make a living, doesn’t he?

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Oct 29

Apple continues to refuse guilty verdict

Apple continues to refuse to accept a years’ old guilty verdict laid against it by the U.S. Supreme Court for conspiring with five of the biggest U.S. publishers to fix the price of eBooks. This Reuters’ post outlines the details with Apple now asking the Supreme Court to toss the guilty verdict out.

I’d almost admire their determination if this constant legal wrangling was not also undermining confidence in the eBook Revolution.

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Oct 28

HarperCollins acquires Midlist eBook newsletter

Digital Book World reports that HarperCollins continues development of its own direct-to-consumer eBook distribution platform with the acquisition of the Midlist eBook Deal Newsletter.