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Big Kindle Boogie! 10 Free Kindle Fires, 75 Free eBooks!
Five bestselling authors. 10 Free Kindle Fires. 75 Free Kindle Thrillers. Now. It’s time to boogie. Here’s the deal: Bestselling thriller writers J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, J. Carson Black, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson are happy to have you as readers and friends. So happy that we want to give you 10 Kindle Fires and [...]
Amazon dominates markets, yes — Amazon also makes markets for authors
On the fingersmurphy.com blog yesterday, Amazon Juicing Sales for its Own Authors, and Everyone Else too lays out the case that Amazon not only dominates markets, but also has the power and does make markets for authors. The article cites the cases of authors Barry Eisler and John Rector where Amazon repeatedly boosted sales for [...]
Why Amazon will underprice their new tablet
In Amazon Could Sell 3 to 5 Million Tablets This Year, a recent article in eBOOK NEWSER, it was reported that a new report by Forrester Research ($500 to buy a copy), that Amazon will price their new tablet device under $300 which would likely allow them little or no profit. Yet they stand to [...]
Kindle Boards provide valuable perspective on eBook sales growth
Author Declan Conner today reports on the explosive growth of eBook sales in the fiction category, highlighting the sales of Breakaway Media thriller author J. Carson Black. In his article,
ePublishing savvy entrepreneurs will succeed
ePublishing is an industry where age-ism has no relevance. Like the Internet boom of the 1990′s, it does not matter how old you are, what matters is the quality of your vision, your passion, and most important, your product or service. I was intrigued by a recent TechCrunch article, “Internet Entrepreneurs Are Like Professional Athletes, [...]
Free Amazon Kindle eBooks, Advertiser-Sponsor Supported and Future Business Models
I’m a regular reader of Joe Konrath’s blog “A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing”. Joe’s blog today, “The List Experiment Update” made me wonder if we are seeing a revolution of sorts, not only in the publishing industry with the explosive growth of eBooks, but also in the business models authors will be using to reach [...]
You don’t need to be an Amazon to market globally
One of the groundbreaking effects of the World Wide Web was the introduction of the capacity for anyone to do business anywhere in the world. I had my first experience when I contracted with a software developer in India to do a relatively complicated WordPress plug-in installation. I am not a big fan of outsourcing, [...]
eBook POD: Amazon CreateSpace or Ingram Lightning Source?
As usual, I was haunting Joe Konrath’s blog and was very interested to see his latest post, The Numbers Game. At Breakaway Media, we have been doing a balancing act of marketing to traditional publishing (we are fortunate to have a top literary agent in New York City), and developing our sales through eBook platforms [...]
Cable TV, not Online Video, the Best Value?
You may think this kind of funny, but Dan Rayburn, EVP of streamingmedia.com just posted a blog, “I Think Cable TV is the Best Value and Experience for the Money Spent, Here’s Why“. It all comes down to the question: “On what does a consumer place value?” I know a world-class television editor who rents [...]
Adobe products, eBooks, and the New Space
The following is a forum comment I made in Continue to Learn elearningclassroom.com Adobe has moved into the multimedia space completely with their suite of applications. They have targeted eBooks as part of the mix. Digital publishing offers multiple opportunities for us with the skills to create new products and services that solve our customers’ [...]