Harlequin has signed a deal to provide exclusive subscription access to 15,000 backlist titles to Scribd subscribers. Not sure what Scribd is? It’s a subscription access service. I wrote about all three of the main ones here and concluded (even without the Harlequin content) that Scribd was the best of ... more >
Discussion about the recent changes to B&N have revealed a number of Kobo customers are having trouble with some Kobo books they’ve purchased. Kobo’s Customer Care department (a misnomer if ever I heard one) will tell buyers who complain that the problem occurs because the book is “ePub3”. This is ... more >
Last week JSON did a list of favorite apps and categorized Evernote as an app that sits there. “I know I should be using this app. But I don’t.” I used to feel that way about Evernote. I remember reading a post about Michael Hyatt’s uses and figured I should ... more >
The news of this leaked two days ago when Amazon posted this and then took it down, but the internet remembers forever. Cached pages showed Kindle’s new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited. Amazon has now launched the service. It is US only for now but there are plans to make ... more >
Long time readers of Dear Author know exactly what I mean when I say “geographical limitations.” In traditional “trade” publishing which is dominated by U.S. publishers (or U.S. arms of international companies), there are two primary types of contracts as it pertains to geographical rights. Usually an author will sell ... more >
From all the reports, it appears that digital book adoption has reached a small plateau. Driven in large part by Amazon’s release of the Kindle, digital book adoption grew by huge percentages in 2010, 2011, and 2012. 2009 – $291 million 2010 – $869 million 2011 – $2.109 bn (15 % of revenue ... more >