How much are used ebooks worth? The NY Times predicts that soon the price will approach a penny, just as soon as Amazon sets up a way to buy and sell used digital products: In late January, Amazon received a patent to set up an exchange for all sorts of digital material. The retailer would […]
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TechRadar: Amazon has announced that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than all print books – that’s hardcover and paperback combined – through the Amazon.com site. Introduced less than four years ago, the Kindle has quickly become Amazon’s top selling product, and now digitised books for the reader have become more popular with its customers
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It is often said that when people can’t do then they teach. For Craig Wallin it was more along the lines of doing first and teaching later. Craig first noticed the need for business guides in the 1980’s. He was growing a breed of apples that are not found in stores. Through his connections as
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Amanda Hocking sold 450,000 e-books in January directly to her readers, for under $3 each. The 26-year old writer has never been traditionally published and according to one anonymous publisher it is unlikely that any traditional publisher could offer her a better deal than the Kindle store. Hocking only began self publishing in March 2010
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So you’ve written an ebook. Now what? It’s time to get the word out and build a strong reader base. Here are four tips to help you build the fan base you need to succeed: Create an ebook blog. Start affliate marketing. Take advantage of social media. Write guest posts. Click here for more detail
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Singularity Hub: The physical to digital conversion of books just got a lot cheaper with the launch of 1DollarScan.com, based in San Jose, California. An offshoot of the immensely successful BookScan in Japan, 1DollarScan does exactly what its name implies: it scans your documents for a dollar. 100 pages of a book, 10 pages of
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If you want to make some money, tap into something a starving college student will pay for. That is exactly what Amazon is doing with their recent digital textbook rental launch. Students who cannot afford to buy their textbooks can now rent the digital version for a set price with a minimum rental period of
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According to USA Today, millions of gift-wrapped iPads, Kindles, Nooks and other digital reading devices resulted in an unprecedented surge in sales of e-books last week. E-book versions of the top six books outsold the print versions last week. And of the top 50, 19 had higher e-book than print sales. It’s the first time
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From the front lines of the e-book revolution, here are five trends Philip Ruppel, president of McGraw-Hill Professional, is watching. 1. Enhanced E-Books Are Coming and Will Only Get Better Consumers have already shown that they love e-books for their convenience and accessibility, but ultimately most e-books today are the same as print, just in
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Who knew the e-book would be such a boon for novelists penning whimsical tales of cheesy intrigue? The New York Times reports that “if the e-reader is the digital equivalent of the brown-paper wrapper, the romance reader is a little like the Asian carp: insatiable and unstoppable. Together, it turns out, they are a perfect
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