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Abandoning Amazon

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Tech for digital book signings, ebook sales in Canada plateau, MetaComet launches AuthorPortal.com, publishing ebooks on paper, new e-ink technology and more!

Big-Six Publishers Take Top of Best-Seller List as Ebook Prices Inch Down

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A high-priced, new-release is again atop the ebook best-seller list. Dan Brown’s Inferno (Random House), a new release from the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, is selling more ebooks than any other title at $14.99, competing with $0.99 self-published ebooks and $4.99 classics. While the No. 1 ebook on the best-seller list fits a familiar narrative when it comes to how book sales have been until very recently, the rest of the list follows a new paradigm.

Dutch Ebook Market Up 45% in Q1

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Over 330,000 ebooks were sold in the first quarter, making digital books nearly 4% of the Netherlands book market share in units so far for 2013. Read more of what Growth from Knowledge is reporting on the Dutch book market …

Ebooks Responsible for Growth in Trade

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AAP and BISG release BookStats 2013, DOJ not convinced by Apple, Copyright Clearance Center joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, the Italian book market is down over 4% and more!

Publicity for Ebooks

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Ebooks 31% of trade sales for Hachette, ebooks in higher circulation at university libraries in China, publishers focus on direct consumer relationships and much more!

Ebook Best-Sellers Hover Around $7.00

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After recovering last week from an all-time low of $6.58, recorded in late April, this week’s average price of an ebook best-seller is $7.23. Titles from Penguin, Hachette, Random House, Macmillan and Harper Collins were higher-priced and influenced the new …

Ebook Spending on the Rise

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Young Chinese readers say ebook quality is low, Barnes & Noble needs ebooks, scale is a powerful publishing tool, ebooks attract news organizations and more!

Accidental Ebook Marketing 

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Publishers offer free e-textbooks to MOOC students, ebook growth across Asia, Sesame ebooks available on Google Play, Sony launches ebook store in Australia and more!

Open Road to Publish Ebooks by Novelist and Historian Mary Renault  

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[Press Release] Open Road Integrated Media Launches Ebooks from Award-Winning Author Mary Renault   Open Road Will Digitally Publish, Distribute, and Market a Selection of Renault’s Novels  “[Renault's] historical novels . . . are among the finest ever written.”  —The Washington Post …

CPR for Nook

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Sourcebooks’ library experiment, women in book publishing, ebooks in Singapore, Amazon launches app store in China and more!

Self-Published Titles Dominate Top of Ebook Best-Sellers List

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Last week self-published authors stunned the publishing world by taking the Nos. 1 and 2 spots on the DBW Ebook Best-Seller list. This week, David Baldacci’s The Hit (Hachette) is No. 1, ending the reign of Holly Ward’s Damaged; however, this week, Ward brought friends. Five of the top ten best-selling ebook titles this week were self-published, three of them at $0.99 and one of them by a bankable big-six author gone hybrid.

Revenues up 22% to $16 Billion at Amazon in First Quarter

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Sales at Amazon rose sharply in the first quarter of 2013, growing 22% to $16.07 billion at the world’s largest bookseller, besting the company’s $13.18 billion in sales in the first quarter of 2011. For the first time in a while, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t comment on ebooks in his part of the earnings announcement.

A New Wrinkle in Ebook Pricing

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Three forces shaping trade publishing, the state of America’s libraries, Amazon’s new e-comic creation tool, five ways publishers can be more like start-ups and more!