by Nate Hoffelder | Jun 12, 2021 | news
My next newsletter is going to feature a list of upcoming author conferences. While compiling the list from my notes, it belatedly occurred to me that I should probably post this on the blog as well. Here are 20 22 author conferences being held this year, nine of the...
by Nate Hoffelder | May 20, 2021 | news
News broke this week that Amazon has signed a distribution agreement with the DPLA (digital Public Library of America) to distribute the 10k ebooks in its catalog via the DPLA Exchange. From the announcement: Amazon Publishing titles will begin to be available in the...
by Nate Hoffelder | May 20, 2021 | news
When it comes to ereaders, Kobo has always been either a day late or a dollar short (or both). Their first ereader was both far less capable and launched long after the Nook and Kindle, and their first Android tablet was about half as powerful as the Kindle Fire and...
by Nate Hoffelder | May 2, 2021 | news
Ingram is a publishing services company which will produce, distribute, or sell books for just about everyone in almost every industry or niche, so when they sold off VitalSource last month, it really said something about the future of digital textbooks. Ingram today...
by Nate Hoffelder | Apr 23, 2021 | news
Kindle Unlimited saw the usual annual fluctuation in funding over the past two months. Funding fell in February to $33.5 million from $36 million in January, but then rose again to $35.4 million in March. At the same time, the per-page rate actually rose in February...
by Nate Hoffelder | Apr 18, 2021 | news
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Google announced on Wednesday that they are retiring one of FeedBurner’s features: Starting in July, we are transitioning FeedBurner onto a more stable, modern infrastructure. This will keep the product up and running for...
