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Seth Godin: How Much Should an Ebook Cost?

Guest Post by Seth Godin How much should an ebook cost? This is the wrong question. The right question is: How much will an ebook cost? Because the answer isn’t up to one author or one publisher or even a price-fixing cartel. It’s up to the market, which is a far more complicated entity. There are […]

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Ebook Marketing: Who Reads Ebooks?

Here are a few facts about ebook readers . . . Over a fifth of American adults have read an eBook. 63% of ebook readers are women, 37% are men. 60% of ebook readers are under the age of 45. 66% of ebook readers have a college or post-graduate degree. 40% of ebook readers earn […]

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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 […]

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Ebook Publishing: The Best Deal for Book Authors and Novelists?

Author’s Question: Does selling rights to a novel make sense anymore? Or should I simply publish ebook editions of my new novel? Publishing ebooks may well be the best answer for any book author, fiction or nonfiction. #ebooks Click To Tweet John’s Answer: Novelists are starting to realize that signing deals with major book publishers […]

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