Digital Book World presents a roundup of some of the most interesting news, commentary, and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world. Is the Borders Bankruptcy Saga Finally Going to End? Sunday was the deadline for potential bidders to line up for the Borders bookstore chain, [...]
After a dozen years, independent booksellers and other brick-and-mortar retailers in California prevailed when Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law yesterday afternoon requiring out-of-state retailers with a presence in the state to collect sales tax on California sales beginning July 1. For California residents the pain of paying online sales tax to Amazon [...]
How do you help brick-and-mortar stores sell books? Throw in an e-book. That is the idea of one publisher, Algonquin, which began a promotion in 300Barnes & Noble stores this month that gives a discounted e-book to customers who buy an Algonquin trade paperback. The publisher has planned a similar effort for October, giving customers who [...]
Independent bookstores, squeezed by competition from Internet retailers like Amazon, have long done something their online brethren cannot emulate: author events. And now many bookstores say they have no choice but to capitalize on this grand tradition. They are charging admission. Bookstores, including some of the most prominent around the country, have begun selling tickets [...]
Google eBooks has launched an affiliates program that will enable publishers, bloggers, retailers and websites to link to Google eBooks and receive a commission for referring visitors to their sites to Google eBooks to buy books. The Google Afiliates Network was launched as a beta program at the end of 2010, teaming with social reading [...]
Sales in Amazon’s North America media segment rose 18% in the first quarter, to $1.89 billion, while sales in the North America electronics and general merchandise group jumped 63%, to $3.3 billion. Overall, revenue rose 38%, to $9.86 billion, but net income fell 33%, to $201 million. The company invested $298 million in [...]
With e-book royalty rates still a contentious, if lately less openly-debated, issue, indie house Other Press has announced it is raising its e-book royalty rate to 50%. (The reigning e-book royalty rate sits at 25%, though major publishers like Random House have adopted a shifting scale-rate, that can go up to 40%.) In a statement about its [...]
Morgan James Publishing is sponsoring the CNU Writers’ Conference this weekend in Newport News, Virginia. Also, David Hancock will be teaching a workshop on Saturday on Guerrilla Marketing for Writers. Joins us! Writers’ Conference and Writing Contest | LifeLong Learning Society at Christopher Newport University.