Amazon India’s publishing house Westland launches a new imprint for children’s books, as Ruskin Bond teams with PRH for audiobooks
There are fewer than 10,000 red pandas in the wild in India, but a new imprint from Amazon’s...
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Category: Amazon
It’s now five years since Amazon last opened a Kindle store. Whatever happened to the Bezos dream “to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle customers”?
November 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the Kindle Netherlands store, and five full years...
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Amazon bookstores embrace spine-out shelf-stacking. Indigo sales fall again. And two sides to the Macmillan digital library boycott saga
Some Amazon critics may have been excited by the opening of Nate Hoffelder’s recent post in The...
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Gaming the system pays… on Amazon UK. Over 30% of the Amazon UK Top 100 Kindle ebooks are in breach of Amazon rules and BIC guidelines. Including Amazon’s own titles
Back in March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to game the system by abusing metadata....
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is hitting inboxes this weekend
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious...
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Amazon’s self-publishing arm KDP Print now offers POD in Canada, but POD for indies remains challenging
Print-on-demand (POD) is a great resource for publishers of all sizes, but it’s only as good as...
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RH Business Relaunch; VAT on Russian ebooks; Amazon’s Kindle for Kids; Brexit fears; Random House Graphic; Ebooks and Libraries; Nobel Prize Controversy
Industry News Round-Up is a selection of some of the most interesting stories emerging from the...
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Audible UK doubles profit as audiobook sales slow in 2018. But claims the ebook bubble has burst is just wishful thinking from the UK Booksellers Association
After a 47% increase in sales in 2017, Amazon-owned Audible UK saw a rise in sales of only 38% in...
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In March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to abuse metadata. Today 60% of Amazon UK’s “Most Sold” Top 20 got there by metadata abuse
Rules are there to be broken. At least, that appears to be the thinking of many in the UK...
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Amazon launches full language support for Traditional Chinese outside China, but is the 2007 Bezos vision of “every book ever printed, in any language, available in less than 60 seconds” still on the agenda?
It was November 2014 when Amazon last launched a new Kindle store, almost seven years to the day...
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Middle East online bookstore Jamalon raises $10m in funding for expansion as Amazon remains ambivalent about the $1.7 bn MENA book market
Little known outside the Middle East, Jamalon is the Arab world’s largest online bookstore,...
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Storytel prepares Germany launch, consolidating subscription as a serious challenger to the traditional publishing model
It all seemed so implausible at the start of this decade. Ebooks had officially arrived, thanks to...
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