With the Kindle and Nook and iPads and Kindle Fires and the eBook revolution we are exchanging – Scenario 1: Publishers and Booksellers Control Everything. Authors get only 8% to 15% of earnings. Readers have to read what Publishers decide is good enough. Publishers have almost complete control over authors and their art. A huge chasm between the creators [...]
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The Kindle Single is an e-book format with a quickly growing fanbase. Kindle Singles tend to be between five-thousand and thirty-thousand words long and priced between one and five dollars. As with all books, Kindle Singles address fiction, advice, cooking, news, politics, history, and so on. There is no doubt that the Kindle Single will suit our [...]
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In celebration of the Kindle Fire and the new Kindle, the CEO of Amazon wrote a very interesting letter (which can be found on the main page of Amazon). A particular section has been stuck in my head and tonight (thanks to reading The Strain for half the night) it finally struck me why. First, let’s [...]
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The underlying platform made some changes to the Email Format and it’s causing some problems for some of us. Here are the options: Standard WordPress Subscriptions The best option if the new email format is working for you: Use the Email Subscription option that comes with WordPress. Kindle Review WordPress Email Subscription (Click on the button [...]
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Please Note: Off-Topic Post. This isn’t very Kindle related other than a few references to the Kindle and to Books. The latest update of Facebook, where it follows you around like a particularly creepy and persistent stalker/paparazzi hybrid, is very interesting. We might soon see attempts to do the same thing with books. Companies might offer us free [...]
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