by Esther Park of Kirkus Reviews In late November of 2016, the world of independent publishing was surprised by the news that Amazon had announced plans to close its...
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Guest Post: What Tech Startups Can Teach Authors About Marketing
by Evan Gow In the world of Startups, Dave McClure is a boss. He’s invested in 5 unicorns (a moniker for startups worth over a billion dollars), something very...
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Guest Post: The Importance of Actually Unplugging on National Day of Unplugging
by Jamie Gruman Instead of a smartphone, I have an old school cellphone. I can’t use it to check social media sites to see what my friends are up to....
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Top Trends in Book Cover Design Forecast for 2018
By Lindsey Vontz, 99designs Grabbing a reader’s attention isn’t easy when there are hundreds of books on the shelf. But one way to make a book stand out? A...
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The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered
Editor's Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven't been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so I will simply...
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Guest Post: B&N Needs to Get Over Its Fear
by Randy Lea I live in Vancouver, WA, with Powell's Bookstore in Portland about 40 miles away. I was thrilled when the B&N stores opened in the area, they...
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How To Easily Proofread And Edit Your Own eBook
You've finally written the last word of your manuscript, and it's all done and dusted. You're now a fully fledged writer! However, after the writing comes the editing, and...
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Amazon Offers Prime Discount for Some US Customers Receiving Government Aid
Amazon is now discounting Prime for customers receiving certain types of government aid. (Corporations, farm subsidy recipients, and mortgage holders will not benefit.) On Tuesday Amazon said it would...
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Apple Launches HomePod Speaker to Bring Siri Into the Living Room
Apple is finally taking Alexa, which is available on a wide variety of hardware, seriously. On Monday Apple introduced the HomePod speaker to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Alexa assistant...
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Apple Set to Expand Siri, Taking Different Route from Amazon’s Alexa
With its broad device support and constantly expanding skill set, Alexa its beating is competitors Cortana, Siri, and Google Home in the virtual assistant market. But it is still early...
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Amazon B&M in New York City
by Rickard Hollick Amazon’s new bricks and mortar store in Manhattan is on the third floor of the Time Warner Center. A few years ago we had a large...
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Amazon Trounces Rivals in Battle of the Shopping Bots
Knowledge is power. This truism is why everyone in publishing reads the Author Earnings Report, and it is also why online retailers use bots to track their competitors' prices....
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Amazon Cuts Free Shipping Minimum to $25
Amazon.com said on Tuesday it cut the threshold for free shipping to $25 from $35, upping the ante against Wal-Mart in a hotly contested battle for e-commerce supremacy. Amazon...
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Amazon Sweeps US Market for Voice-Controlled Speakers: Study
The tablet market may be following the ereader market into a semi-permanent decline, but the smart home appliances market is still growing. And Amazon is in the perfect position to...
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EU Accepts Amazon eBook Commitments to Settle Antitrust Case
The most-favored-nation clause is a tool invented by Apple and used by Amazon to prevent being undercut by price competition. It is on house arrest in the European ebook...
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