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.
Brick and mortar retail is dead, they say - so dead that Amazon continues to open bookstores, and is now rumored to be bidding on a small chain of movie theaters. Business Den reports that Amazon has
[Read More ...]Amazon announced on Wednesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.1 million in July (plus bonuses), up from $22.6 million in June 2018. At the same time the per-page rate royalty
[Read More ...]We've seen a Kindle turned into a weather station, thermometer, fridge magnet, a display for the Raspberry Pi, and a monitor. And now, if you have a spare Kindle lying around, you can turn it into a
[Read More ...]Amazon has quietly changed the terms offered to several German ebook distributors, bringing them into line with most other ebook distributors. SelfPublisherBibel.de reports that ebooks distributed
[Read More ...]Remember how I've been telling you for years and years that Amazon's bots have been banning authors for inexplicable reasons and giving them no recourse to reverse the malicious actions? Much to no
[Read More ...]If you are an indie author with ebooks in Kindle Unlimited and audiobooks sold through Audible, you should check to see if the latter have been pressed into Kindle Unlimited when you weren't looking.
[Read More ...]Amazon just changed one of the bounties it pays on new Audible subscribers to bring it more in line with how Amazon's other bounties are awarded. Scott Carney brought my attention to the news that
[Read More ...]Remember earlier this year when the basic Kindle disappeared from the Kindle listings on Amazon.com, only to return a few days later? It looks like that situation has recurred. While writing a post
[Read More ...]The latest Kindle firmware update dropped on Monday. According to the changelog, this update features "performance improvements and other general enhancements" as well as one new feature that library
[Read More ...]Amazon just gave us a reason to go find that an old dead Kindle lying in a drawer somewhere and blow the dust off. The retailer is running a special trade-in deal on its site right now where you can
[Read More ...]Amazon rolled out a new update to its Kindle Android app today. They're finally adding split-screen support, and they announced a new feature. First, anyone with a device running Android 7.0
[Read More ...]If you are an author with zero page views in Kindle Unlimited, you can put down the absinthe - -it's not just you. Dozens of authors on KBoards and in FB groups such as SPF community
[Read More ...]Amazon is now selling refurbished units of its latest and greatest ereader at a 28% discount. The Kindle Oasis 2 normally retails for $249 and up, but you can get a refurb for $179 (for the 8GB
[Read More ...]Amazon just hammered another nail into Createspace's coffin. The retailer sent out an email this morning to select Createspace users, informing them that Createspace's disc production unit was
[Read More ...]So as you may know, my mother is on my Amazon account. (There is a point to this anecdote, trust me.) We mainly use it to read ebooks; I sideload SF ebooks while she reads free romance novels. This
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