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June 25, 2014

Wednesday News: Börsenverein v. Amazon, the future of digital lending, YouTube’s subscription service, and polling readers for a book title

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / book titles / digital publishing / ebook royalties / Germany / Google / Libraries / music / Polls / record labels / subscriptions / YouTube5 Comments

Note: We’ve had some caching issues where the front page (the one with the slider) failed to update the content. The https://dearauthor.com/blog page was fine. I think we’ve fixed it but if you visit DA and there’s not updated content, let us know by emailing [email protected] with the issue (and ... more >

June 24, 2014

Tuesday News: People want bigger phones, independent booksellers capitalize on Hachette v. Amazon, Open Road responds to Harper Collins, and literary miscellany

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / authors / contract / digital publishing / ebook royalties / Hachette / Harper Collins / lawsuit / Literary fiction / Open Road12 Comments

Survey Says: People Want Bigger Phones – Dear Apple, what is that they say — change or die? Remember the olden days when you were the underdogs, the upstarts, the revolutionaries? What happened, Apple? Please don’t make me buy a Galaxy Note. Please. XOXO, Me Of the 23,000 people polled ... more >

Nook Media Father's Day 2013
June 26, 2013

Wednesday News: Swiss watch found; B&N discontinues Nook Tablet

JaneEbooksBarnes & Noble / ebook royalties / Nook Tablet / Time-Travel7 Comments

Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for more than 400 years – Archaeologists have found 100-year-old watch in a 400-year-old sealed tomb. I’d like to think this is the result of time travel, but I suspect it is the result of the 400-year-old tomb not being ... more >

Charlotte Featherstone Pride and Passion
July 18, 2011

Monday Midday Links: A New Fave Cover and Book Group Sale Sites

JanePublishing Newsbook business / Charlotte Featherstone / Deals / ebook royalties / epilogues / HarperCollins29 Comments

Enjoy sites like Groupon or Living Social?  If so, you aren’t alone.  Around 50 million people have used Groupon inviting a hoard of copy cat social coupon sites like locusts to a wheat field.  All Things D reports that Hearst Owned magazines will launch its own group commerce site that ... more >

July 19, 2008

Simon & Schuster wants ebook royalties to be 15%

JanePublishing Newsbook business / ebook royalties / Simon & Schuster5 Comments

Simon & Schuster has sent out an amendment to authors which purports to add a provision setting the standard royalty rate at 15% of the catalog retail price for e-books. The Author’s Guild sent out an alert to instruct authors of three things: members should discuss the amendment with their ... more >

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