To me, the lack of quality control is a big deterrent to paying more than a dollar or two for an indie ebook from an author whose books I have not previously read. In the beginning, Smashwords was a great place to find indie books and give them a try, but that is rapidly changing as the number [...]
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New indie ebookstore launched in Australia
March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Boomerang Books have just opened an ebookstore at Booku.com. The store is supplied by Overdrive, and it stocks more than 134k titles, including content from Australian publishers such as Allen & Unwin, Black Dog Books, Exisle Publishing, HarperCollins, New Holland and Pan Macmillan. Boomerang Books are selling ebooks in Epub which can be read on [...]
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Australia’s first indie ebookstore has launched
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
A new ebookstore launched last week in Australia, but I didn’t cover it. I kinda got distracted by Chris Walter’s commentary (and the ensuing debate) on browser based ebooks, and I forgot to write about the ebookstore itself. Readings Booksellers is an indie bookstore chain with 6 stores in and around Melbourne, Australia. The ebookstore [...]
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Smashwords Published 20,000th Indie Ebook
September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Smashwords author Charlene Bays Rothenberger yesterday published the 20,000th book at Smashwords at 8:23pm Pacific time. Two months ago we reached 15,000 books and five months ago we hit 10,000. To put the growth in context, we published 140 books in 2008, our first year of operation. By the end of 2009, we reached 6,000. [...]
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Smashwords Publishes 15,000th Indie Ebook
July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Smashwords blog: Smashwords announced an important milestone today. Late Sunday evening, an indie author published the 15,000th title at Smashwords. We’ve experienced tremendous growth in the last two years, thanks to the trust and confidence placed in us by nearly 7,000 indie authors and publishers around the world.
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Indie Pub. Author Solutions signs Kindle Deal
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the press release: Author Solutions (ASI), the world leader in indie book publishing, announced today the signing of an agreement with Amazon to distribute all new black-and-white AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford Publishing, and Xlibris titles through its popular eReader, the Kindle.”The Kindle was a pioneer in the rapidly expanding eReader market, and we’re pleased to [...]
Indie Publishers Look to Subscriptions for Sales Boost
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From Daily Finance: However the future of book publishing shakes out, independent companies are harder pressed than ever to figure out how to survive, much less thrive. Some publishers feel the answer is to try a more direct approach, complimenting the usual bookseller and retailer-oriented sales channels with a subscription model that reaches readers directly. [...]
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