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Sony Launches an eBookstore in Australia and Other News That Makes No Sense

May 8th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news, sony → 1 Comment

400px-Sony_Reader_Store_logo.svg_[1]Today Sony continued to confuse everyone watching the global ebook market. They’ve just formally launched the Sony Reader Store in Australia, their 8th local ebookstore (US, Canada, and Europe) and their first antipodal ebookstore.
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Social Reading Platform ReadMill Partners With Indie Marketplace Gumroad

April 26th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news, Social reading → 1 Comment

readmill[1]The 2-year-old social reading platform ReadMill announced today that they have formed a new partnership with Gumroad, the minimalist online marketplace.

Readers who buy ebooks through Gumroad will now be able to click a simple “Send to Readmill” button and have their purchases transferred automatically to their ReadMill account.
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China’s Dangdang Follows in Amazon’s Footsteps – is Determined to Lose Money on eBooks

April 22nd, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · Amazon, ebookstore news → 5 Comments

AirPaper-50T-photo[1]Amazon is often maligned as only being interested in losing money on ebooks. That’s never actually been true (just ask the DOJ), but last week one ebook retailer in China decided to give the idea a try.

Dangdang.com ran a sale last week that defied the meaning of the word. According to China Daily, Dangdang put their entire ebook catalog on sale for free.

Yes, free.
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Australian eBook Market Heats Up

April 22nd, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news → 4 Comments

JB Books The Australian electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi clearly wasn’t satisfied with simply selling Kindle, Sony, Kobo, and other ereaders because they launched their own ebookstore this weekend.

JB Hi-Fi Books sells ebooks in Epub and PDF from all the major publishers, including Hachette, Lonely Planet, Penguin, Random House, Allen & Unwin, Pan Macmillan, HarperCollins, and Text Publishing. The ebooks can be read on JB Hi-Fi’s newly released Android and iOS apps as well as on most ereaders.
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Amazon Expands Into Russia, Hires New Head of Kindle Content

April 19th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · Amazon, ebookstore news → No Comments

8410345776_9518e8248e_o[1]Amazon is expanding into Russia – or at least the Kindle Store is.

Forbes.ru reported this morning that Amazon has opened a new office in Russia, and  hired a publishing industry insider to run it. Arkady Vitrouk has left his position as the CEO of the Russia’s Atticus Publishing Group to take this new position with Amazon. According to his LinkedIn profile he’s now the “Director, Kindle Content at Amazon EU Sarl”.
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Sony eBookstore Updated With New Expert Reviews from iDreambooks

April 18th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news → No Comments

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Book reviews are important.

Good or bad, real or fake, book reviews are often the cornerstone of the book buying experience. Few readers are comfortable with risking their money on an unknown, so we seek out other opinions before buying a book by an author we don’t know.
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Amazon Releases a New Tool for the Indie Graphic Novelist – Kindle Comics Creator

April 16th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · Amazon, ebook tools, ebookstore news → 2 Comments

kindle comics creator 2 For as long as I can remember it hasn’t been hard to make a Kindle ebook. Assuming you only want to use text and at most a few images, you can find any number of tools online that will do the job quite nicely. There’s calibre, Jutoh, Feedbooks,, Mobipocket Creator (and that’s just the handful I can recall off the top of my head).

But the same cannot be said for graphic novels. Amazon may have launched a new comics section in the Kindle Store along with the Kindle Fire in 2011, but they didn’t release any tools which could be used to create graphic novels – until today.
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Sony Pioneers New Discovery Tool for eBooks: Infographics

April 16th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news → 5 Comments

fictionaddiction[1]While most ebookstores are following Amazon in trying to use discovery engines to match readers with similar books, Sony has decided to move in a completely different direction.

Yesterday Sony posted an infographic in the Sony Reader store. This infographic contains a flow chart that asks the user questions and then directs them to a particular title based on how the user answers. The chart contains 15 fiction and nonfiction titles, and asks some unusual questions to help decide which one you should buy.
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BajaLibros Expands Into US Market With The Third Largest Spanish Language eBookstore

April 10th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news → No Comments

txyrnk37m8c45dh46p99[1]One of South America’s leading ebookstore has expanded into the US market.

BajaLibros announced today that they were officially launching in the US ebook market. This ebookstore had originally launched in Argentina in 2010, and later expanded to include the rest of South America, Mexico, Latin America, and Spain.
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Indie eBookstore BooksOnBoard Shuts Down Amid Cries From Publishers of Non-Payment

April 6th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · ebookstore news → 34 Comments

booksonboardBooksOnBoard has updated their website this morning with a drastic change. They’ve shut down their ebookstore, and replaced it with this notice:
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