Amazon’s Kindle Digital Text Platform 70% deal 225

Beginning October 6, U.K. authors and publishers of e-books will be able to get a 70% royalty option at Amazon’s Kindle Digital Text Platform.  This option has been available in the U.S. for months, but now the British will have it too.  It means that instead of reaping only about one third of the profits [...]

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New Kindle that allows readers to preview books

Amazon has just announced a new sort of Kindle that allows consumers to preview books.  While it is true that Amazon already has a preview option for some of the books they sell, this is a little different.

The new Kindle option will run on any browser and will invite a preview of e-books offered by [...]

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E-books are cheap according to publishers

From the publisher’s point of view, consumers may be expecting too much (or too little) regarding the current and future price of books.  While theoretically an e-book costs less to produce than a printed version of the same material, this is not necessarily the case.

According to a recent report in The New York Times, a [...]

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