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How the shift to ebooks will affect genre categories in fiction

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Posted 4 months ago
Attempting to live life the way they’ve always lived it — by preserving check-outs, throttling supply, and creating queues for e-books — publishers and libraries are only cementing their place in the past. One idea toward a different outcome? Perhaps instead of a library simply telling a patron that a book isn’t available, work with Amazon to create a consignment approach. The patron could have the book on their device for a week without charge and read up to 50% of the book in that time. If the e-book is returned to the library in that time, they can pick up where they stopped and it’s all still free. If not, they can buy the book (and the library gets a percentage of the sale), or they can wait it out. Libraries have a great potential role in marketing e-books, but if they continue to think of themselves as the preservationists of physical artifacts, the emerging e-book platforms will leapfrog them. Publishers would also find a natural alignment here.
Why E-books Are Turning the Library and Publishing Worlds Upside Down « The Scholarly Kitchen (via infoneer-pulse)
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Posted 8 months ago
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Growth Of Amazon’s Kindle Book Sales

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In E-Books, Publishing Houses Have a Rival in News Sites

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Book publishers are surrounded by hungry new competitors: Amazon, with its steadily growing imprints; authors who publish their own e-books; online start-ups like The Atavist and Byliner.

Now they have to contend with another group elbowing into their territory: news organizations.

Swiftly and at little cost, newspapers, magazines and sites like The Huffington Post are hunting for revenue by publishing their own version of e-books, either using brand-new content or repurposing material that they may have given away free in the past.

And by making e-books that are usually shorter, cheaper to buy and more quickly produced than the typical book, they are redefining what an e-book is — and who gets to publish it.

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Posted 9 months ago

Amazon Begins Offering Daily Deals on Kindle Ebooks

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Amazon has started offering 24-hour discounts on Kindle ebooks beginning at midnight PT each day, a company spokesperson has confirmed.

Those who subscribe to Amazon’s Kindle newsletter should have received a note in their inboxes Wednesday announcing the first deal: $1.39 for Kate Dicamillo’s young adult fiction novel The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, a 75% discount off the normal price.

» via Mashable

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