What’s With the Kindle Royalty Discrepancies?
Send to Kindle Some Kindle authors have been making only 18% royalties on their Kindle books, as opposed to the 30% or 70% that is standard. What gives? As Nate at The Digital Reader says, For as long...
View ArticleAmazon Releases KDP Select Author Earnings Per Borrow for May 2012
Send to Kindle Amazon authors who publish via the company’s KDP platform have the option of enrolling in a program called KDP Select, which allows Amazon Prime members to borrow their books for free....
View ArticleWeekend Edition: Amazon News, October 20-21, 2012
Send to Kindle So, this weekend we had some fun. We had bought and received a Kindle Paperwhite, but we had to buy it on eBay, since Amazon’s not sharing right now We had the big unveiling on the...
View Article3Q Results from the seller’s standpoint, Penguin-Random House merger effects,...
Send to Kindle Post-Sandy news is pretty light on the Amazon front, as it probably should be. As I write this, people are still digging out and much devastation is still to be discovered. Many of the...
View ArticleVeteran Support, Showrooming, High Risk Publishing, and more…
Send to Kindle Good Ereader reports that Amazon is supporting US Military Veterans by donating 2,000 Kindle e-readers to wounded servicemen and women through Operation Homefront. Amazon removed the buy...
View ArticleNew video is up, Amazon UK hacked? Paperwhite shortage, Pre-Black Friday...
Send to Kindle Good (observed) Veterans Day to you all, especially the veterans amongst us! I promised you I’d let you know when our newest video is up, and so it is! We had fun with the new e-ink...
View ArticleProtest results, Unexpected Kindle search results, AZ shareholders, Hot...
Send to Kindle A couple of days ago I mentioned that the National Federation of the Blind planned a protest outside the Amazon headquarters. Well, yesterday I looked for news reports, but didn’t find...
View ArticleApple’s suit dismissed, Rayon is NOT Bamboo!, Home Depot fights, funnies, and...
Send to Kindle So Apple sued Amazon over the Amazon Appstore name, saying Amazon was deceiving a segment of its audience by using the name Appstore. Amazon answered, of course, and the lawsuit was...
View ArticleOffline Competition, Waffle Iron Expert? Cloud App Update and more
Send to Kindle Well, the cruise fun’s about to end, and it’ll soon be time to come home. We arrive in the Port of Galveston in the morning, and in a few more hours, it’ll be time to get back to...
View ArticleAZ poised for (more) growth, winning the e-book platform, new suit filed...
Send to Kindle Amazon, the largest marketplace in the world, is prepared to grow some more in 2013. Somehow I don’t think this is a huge surprise, for those who have been paying attention at all. It...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle: Expanded distribution of Kindle Fire, Barefoot Books...
Send to Kindle They say time flies when you’re having fun! Based on that, I’ve been having a TON of fun – and in actuality, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I took a little time off to acclimate...
View ArticleKindle Worlds and Other New Amazon Stuff
Send to Kindle For some reason, when I saw the announcement of “Kindle Worlds,” the first thing that popped into my mind was “sci-fi.” Having recently completed a sci-fi short story, I rushed to read...
View ArticleThe Other Shoe Drops
Send to Kindle I recently mentioned that Kindle Paperwhite was in short supply, and that there was speculation that the lack of any real news was a sign that there was soon to be something new to...
View ArticleKindle Unlimited
Send to Kindle After over a week of flying rumors, and a false start (link is to an article in French with screenshots of the accidental announcement that was taken down shortly after it went...
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