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How to Tell if You Need to Install a Security Update On Your Older Barnes & Noble Nook

22 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

Here is a quick PSA to ensure that Nook owners make sure their devices get the latest security update. Barnes & Noble has announced that it is updating its server at the end of this month to [Read More ...]

Morning Coffee – 22 June 2018

22 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

Here are a few stories to read this Friday morning. There's more money in selling a platform than in selling content. The EU wants to mandate ContentID filters on the entire internet. Condenses [Read More ...]

US Supreme Court Tax Ruling Means Authors Have to Collect Sales Tax on Direct Sales

21 June, 2018 // 11 Comments

Whip out the Advil, because a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court is going to cause a lot of headaches for authors and other small operators who sell online. The Court issued a ruling today [Read More ...]

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Division Generated $111 Million Last Year, and Employs 57 People

21 June, 2018 // 3 Comments

B&N's once mighty ebook division has fallen on hard times. What at one point was a billion dollar a year business has now shrunk to the point that there are digital publishing startups that have [Read More ...]

Has Anyone Heard that Amazon is Merging Createspace into KDP Print (?)

21 June, 2018 // 2 Comments

Amazon is about to throw a wrench in authors' carefully made plans. Reports are coming in that some time in the next month, Amazon will be sending Createspace users an email informing them that [Read More ...]

Google Launches a Podcast App for Android

20 June, 2018 // 4 Comments

There are currently more podcast-playing apps than you can shake a stick at, but that's not enough for Google. In its bid to collect as much data bout you as possible, Google has launched its own [Read More ...]

Morning Coffee – 20 June 2018

20 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this Wednesday morning. Amazon has finally released a statement on how it measures pages read in Kindle Unlimited. You should take it with a grain of salt. A [Read More ...]

Amazon Claims to Accurately Measure Pages Read in Kindle Unlimited, Neglects to Mention There’s no Standard Page Size

19 June, 2018 // 6 Comments

Earlier this week Amazon released a statement tangential to the ongoing problem of cheating in Kindle Unlimited, but as with many of Amazon's statements the bigger story is what was left unsaid. To [Read More ...]

Does Anyone Miss Having Word Games and Apps on Kindles?

19 June, 2018 // 13 Comments

a Kindle Touch displaying a "find it" type of game Yesterday's bizarre price osculations on the Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite got me thinking about older Kindle models, and what they used to be [Read More ...]

Amazon Announces the Best Books of 2018 (So Far)

19 June, 2018 // 2 Comments

Amazon's editors have compiled a list of books they would like you to buy, and are calling it the best books of 2018. "The annual list is hand selected by the Amazon Books Editors and features the [Read More ...]

Amazon Drops the Price of the Kindle Voyage to $149

18 June, 2018 // 13 Comments

Cartomancers are going to need to dust off their bones, because I have a mystery for them. Amazon has quietly cut the price of the Kindle Voyage. This four-year-old ereader was selling for $199 just [Read More ...]

Around Half of SF&F Sales Are No Longer Being Tracked

18 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

In 2016 I showed you how the print market for romance, SF&F, and thriller genres was either dead or dying due to the fact that over half of each genre's unit sales had gone digital. The latest [Read More ...]

Morning Coffee – 18 June 2018

18 June, 2018 // 2 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I see SEO for authors as more of a checklist item than a priority, but it's still worth checking off your list. Why nonfiction authors should [Read More ...]

Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in May 2018

17 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

In spite of cheats like Chance Carter, the third largest ebook market in the world continued to expand in May 2018. Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool total $22.5 [Read More ...]

Amazon Now Lets Authors Purchase Multiple Copies of Kindle eBooks

15 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

Instafreebie and other free ebook sites are a great way to give away ebooks, but not all readers are capable of loading an ebook on their Kindle. That is why some authors give away copies bought in [Read More ...]

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