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Ebook Marketing Via the Kindle Select Program: Pros and Cons

Have you been publishing ebooks to Amazon’s Kindle Select program? Are you thinking of changing how you go about publishing and marketing your ebooks? Want to know more? Check out the following articles on ebook promotions, Amazon’s Kindle Select program, ebook publishing, and ebook marketing: Before we start, here’s what the Amazon Kindle Select program […]

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Mark Coker: eBook Publishing Predictions for 2013

Mark Coker of Smashwords recently made the following predictions about ebooks and publishing for the upcoming year (2013). 1. Ebooks as a percentage of overall trade book sales in the US should hit 45%, up from what I’m estimating will probably be 30% in 2012. We’ll still continue to see ebooks take eyeballs from print […]

Amazon Adds New Amazon Author Rank

Amazon.com announced today that they’ve added a new feature to their website that should help book readers to find the top-selling book authors on Amazon.com for any genre or topic. The top 100 authors overall and the top 100 in selected genres will be displayed on Amazon.com. To locate your Amazon Author Rank, go to […]

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How the Business of Ebooks Is Shaping Book Publishing

Book publishers have jumped on the ebook bandwagon, but they still have a long way to go to embrace the technology of ebooks as well as ebook promotion. 4 out of 5 publishers now publish ebooks. For every 100 print books Amazon sells, they sell 114 ebooks. The Apple iStore is only the 4th most […]