A New Patent for Contextual Ads Created by Microsoft
Microsoft and Barnes and Noble recently came to terms on a new way to distribute the companies eBooks on the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. This will drastically increased the footprint of BN digital titles, which remain USA only. Microsoft may have found a new way to offer eBooks at a cheaper rate with a [...]
Kobo Updates Its Android App with More Languages
Kobo for Android is one of the most successful e-reading applications in the world. It taps into a vibrant ecosystem of almost 2.4 million free and paid ebooks and gives you rewards just for reading. Today the company released a new version of their app that boosts the number of supported languages significantly. Customers in [...]
eBooks Now Account for 21% of all Sales at Simon & Schuster
Digital eBook sales at Simon Schuster are seeing strong growth in the second financial quarter of 2012. They have risen by almost 44% and now account for 21% of the companies total book sales. Revenues increased by 3% and garnered the company a cool $189 million from $183 million over the second quarter in 2011. [...]
Smashwords Contributes Four Authors to the New York Times Bestseller List
Self-Publishing juggernaut Smashwords is one of the largest companies of its kind to sell and distribute eBooks to all of the major online stores. They have one of the farthest reaches out of all the companies who specialize in publishing indie authors. Smashwords announced that four of their authors have reached the New York Times [...]
Christian Fiction Undergoing a Resurgence via eReaders
Christian fiction and religious ebooks are undergoing a quiet resurgence due to the widespread availability of electronic book readers. Though erotica sales have dominated the digital and tangible industries this year, Christian books seem be generating more and more consistent sales. According to the American Association of Publishers, Christian content is doing quite well. Revenue [...]
Scholastic Enhances Kids’ eReading App in Time for Back to School
Scholastic’s popular kids’ e-reader app Storia, which comes pre-installed with five children’s digital titles, has partnered with digital publisher Trajectory to add well-known illustrated classics titles to the app. These titles will be available for purchase beginning in November, within only a few months of school resuming for another academic year. “Trajectory is a good [...]
Tor eBooks are now DRM Free
TOR and Forge books have now completely shed their eBook encryption on everything they sell. This provides customers with the ability to freely transfer them to any of their devices, without having to use Adobe Digital Editions or other methods. They are the first major publishing company to completely absolve this kind of anti-piracy measures [...]
How Customers Benefit from the e-Reader Wars at Target
Michael Kozlowski (1950 Posts) Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the Huffington Post, CNET and more. Michael frequently travels to international [...]
Book Expo America 2013 Changes Dates
The largest publishing conference in North America is starting earlier next year. Book Expo America is finalized to begin May 30 to June 1 at the Javitz Center in New York City. The main factor in the change was to keep hotel fees down for people to attend. Conference Day will take place on Wednesday, [...]
Kobo Writing Life to be Launched Soon
Kobo Writing Life is the companies new self-publishing platform that allows authors to employ a myriad of tools. One of the most exciting aspects of this problem is the live metrics to give you a sense of where your books are selling and where, all in real time. You can also set prices differently in [...]
LULU Master Publishing Contest Winner Is. ..
We have just wrapped up our contest for indie authors and aspiring writers! The winner has won a shiny new Masterpiece Publishing Package courtesy of LULU that retails for $1,697.00! Lulu.com’s Open-Publishing platform allows authors, businesses, and developers alike to publish and distribute their content free of charge. Whether you are looking to publish a paperback, [...]
Amazon Audible comes to Windows Mango Phones
Amazon has just released their Audible platform on Windows Phones running 7.5 or Mango. If you are an existing Audible user you can simply have all of your books synced to your device and new users can signup within the app. This new app is a total boon for everyone fiending for the latest audiobooks [...]
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