by Nate Hoffelder | Sep 20, 2021 | news
The hot news story this week (which I assume will be officially announced next Tuesday) is that Amazon’s new Kindle will sport a 6.8″ screen. Reddit users have discovered that Amazon’s sites in Mexico and elsewhere are now showing references to a new...
by Nate Hoffelder | Aug 22, 2021 | news
In a few short months Amazon will no longer have an excuse to charge ebook delivery fees. Now would be a good time to tell them to stop. Early in 2010 Amazon responded to the imminent launch of iBooks by offering new payment terms to indie authors. Self-published...
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...
