The second shot in law firm Hagens Berman fight against Amazon has been fired. The firm put out a press release on Thursday announcing that they had found booksellers willing...Continue reading
Category: Amazon
This retailer possesses a reputation to fit its name. It’s the single largest bookseller in the US, and is responsible for driving most ebook sales as well, while at the same time it is developing a wide variety of tech products, including Fire tablets, the Fire TV, Alexa digital assistant, and more.
Amazon Will Stop Accepting* Mobi Files in June
It’s finally happened. Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in January 2021 as the Per-Page Rate Drops
Kindle Unlimited saw a huge jump in usage during the first month of the year. The funding pool grew by $2 million compared to December 2020. The new total is...Continue reading
Big Five Publishers Names as Co-Defendants in Amazon eBook Price-Fixing Lawsuit
It took 3 weeks longer than I expected, but the Big Five Publishers have been named as co-defendants in the Amazon ebook price-fixing lawsuit. Following an amended complaint filed this...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Fell While the Funding Pool Grew in December 2020
Kindle Unlimited grew at a healthy clip in the last month of 2020. The funding pool grew by $800,000 over November 2020. The new total is $34 million, or about...Continue reading
Audible Will Soon Break Out Returns in ACX
Remember last November when author groups such as ALLi, SFWA, and The Authors Guild wrote an open letter to Amazon protesting Audible’s returns and exchange policies? We’re finally seeing some...Continue reading
Connecticut is Investigating Amazon’s eBook Business
When I reported last Thursday that a class-action suit had been filed against Amazon, accusing them of conspiring with publishers, I apparently had missed that the state of Conn. is...Continue reading
Amazon Sued Over Its Dominance of the eBook Market (Finally)
News broke this week that Amazon is being sued for colluding with five major publishers to inflate prices. The case was filed by the same law firm that lead the...Continue reading
Amazon Doubles Storage on Basic Kindle, Also Renames it as the 2019 Model
Amazon is sending mixed messages about their cheapest Kindle. On the one hand, they have dropped a hint that it could be replaced soon. On the other hand, they upgraded...Continue reading
Audible Makes Tiny Change to Its Execrable Return & Royalty Policy
It seems that if multiple author groups line up against it, Amazon can be forced to make a change to it policies – just not a major change. Audible sent...Continue reading
Basic Kindle Now $59, Oasis & Paperwhite to go on Sale on Cyber Monday
Amazon announced a confusing number of sales today for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Some items are on sale today, while others won’t be going on sale until the 28th....Continue reading
Here’s Why ALLi Downgraded Audible to “Caution”
When I reported a few weeks ago that Audible was actively promoting returns as a benefit of subscribing, I apparently missed the bigger picture. It’s not just that Audible is...Continue reading
Amazon Launches New Author Portal
About three years back Amazon started beta-testing a new author portal called Amazon Author (not to be confused with Author Central). That new portal officially launched this past week with...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose by $300K in October 2020
Kindle Unlimited maintained its position in October 2020 of being the market that all of Amazon’s competitors (with the possible exception of Apple) wished they owned. The KU funding pool...Continue reading
Build and Manage Series Pages in the Kindle Store
For a number of years now Amazon has been making series pages for Kindle ebooks. One of their bots would identify all of the books in a particular series, and...Continue reading