Amazon

How Amazon Works

by Sabrina Publishing

Today is a day of posting links to really interesting articles. First up, Eugene Wei wrote an interesting analytical blog post about why Amazon’s business model is one that aims to have low margins: Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins And secondly, The Guardian posted a piece on how Amazon struggles with its customer book [...]

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All About Amazon

by Sabrina Publishing
Amazon aggregator, distributor, publisher

Amazon is best known for selling books, but the company is more than that. They aggregate, and in doing that they’re able to offer almost any product.

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What Editors Think About Self-Publishing

by Sabrina Editing

Recently I attended the SLICE Conference, where I got to hear all about the ups and downs of self-publishing–from editors’ perspectives. 

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Self-publishing ebooks: Why maximizing distribution matters

by Sabrina Distribution

New technologies and startups have made it easier than ever to self-publish ebooks. But they don’t make it any easier to make a living writing. The most important thing you can do as a self-published author, however, is to make sure your ebook is available through as many retail channels as possible. (FYI, ebook sales [...]

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The New Kindle Format 8 (KF8)

by Sabrina EBooks

Part 3 of the Understanding EPUB 3.0 webcast series was called An Alternative to EPUB 3.0: Inside the New Kindle Format 8 (KF8). The presenter was Joshua Tallent, president of eBook Architects. (To read my other posts on this series, see EPUB 3 and EPUB 3.0 Workflow).

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Writers, Readers, Publishers: Present Tense, Future Bold

by Sabrina Publishing

Tonight I went to a talk about ebook marketing. I’m part of a group, called Writers, Readers, Publishers: Present Tense, Future Bold that meets once a month to hear guest speakers talk about the state of the publishing industry. The first meeting was a talk with Robert Gleason, Executive Editor at Tor Books, a division of [...]

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Kindle Owners Lending Library

by Sabrina Publishing

There have been rumors, scary rumors that may have put some publishers on edge, but it turns out things aren’t so bad. Amazon announced the launch of the dreaded Kindle Owners Lending Library, where Amazon Prime members can borrow books. But this service does not include any books from the Big 6 publishers, and members [...]

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The Future of Publishing…We’re In It

by Sabrina Publishing

Three interesting articles about the publishing industry caught my eye today. But first, I’ve found that reading and thinking critically about articles goes more smoothly with music, so I invite you to play the video below and enjoy the sweet sounds of “Stereo Love” while reading the rest of my post. (And yes, I may [...]

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing

According to this blog post, the death of print media is coming sooner than we think. Amazon recently said it’s now selling more e-books than paperbacks, and “for every 100 paperback books they’ve sold this January, they’re selling 115 ebooks…” This means ebook sales are 45 percent of all Amazon book sales. But what about [...]

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing
digital publishing

Photo by Toby Hudson, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The next big step for e-books seems to be its lending capabilities. Up until recently, e-books could not be lent to friends, at least not without many restrictions, and it was a huge drawback compared to print books, which could be easily shared. But a New Jersey-based [...]

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing
Penguin group

Penguin Group is embracing new technologies. They’ve started a TV and Radio Satellite Media Tours department, so that they can “produce TV and radio satellite tours for Penguin authors,” according to Publisher’s Weekly. Penguin Brings TV, Radio Satellite Tours In-House Amazon has been working to make it easier and more profitable for authors to self-publish. [...]

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