As the market and competition starts to catch up with Amazon.com’s Kindle, it’s no surprise to see that they expanded their E-book availability beyond the Kindle device and also lowered the cost of the devices themselves .
Back right around the time when Amazon.com first bought CreateSpace, and Kindles were still on the drawing board, Amazon came up with a brilliant idea called Amazon Shorts. This program gave authors a chance to upload short stories and sell them for .49 cents each, and gave authors like me the chance to rake [...]
CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) group of companies, today announced a new agreement with Lightning Source Inc., the print on-demand unit of Ingram Content Group Inc. The collaboration between the two companies will expand CreateSpace’s distribution options for its members beyond Amazon.com and CreateSpace eStores.
For those who might have missed it, best selling author John Grisham was on the Today show this morning to plug his new book, Ford County, but also had a thing or two to say about the recent web war with book pricing that’s been taking place amongst Amazon, Wal~Mart, B&N, and Target. He believes printed books are an endangered species and that the surge in popularity of EBooks isn’t helping.
Well, we wondered how long it would take before someone else entered the Ereader race with Sony and Amazon. This week, we got our answer! For the past year, Amazon has owned the market with its Kindle, Kindle Deluxe, and the release this week of a new Kindle with U.S. and International Wireless access. With the latest version, Kindle also went global.
This week Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com, announced that Amazon’s Kindle E-Reader is about to go global. The Kindle with both U.S. and International Wireless will become available October 19th for $279.
I was excited to get an email from Amazon.com’s Author Central Team yesterday announcing they had finally given a bit more spotlight to the Author Central program. As you may recall, in the past if you had an Amazon Connect blog it could be found right at the bottom of your product page. Amazon decided that blogs probably ate up too much selling space, so they launched a new program called Author Central.
I posted about Amazon’s new improved Author Central pages this time last month. While setting up my own page, I decided to email Amazon and ask them about my Amazon Connect blog being removed from my book’s pages. I received a reply today:
I’ve been following a disccusion over at the CreateSpace Community called “How Does Lightning Source Compare to Lulu and Createspace?” While the information has been very good across the board, I thought a recent post from someone called Penumbra Publishing contained a wealth of information that I’d share here…
Finalizing your project at CreateSpace includes filling in your checking account information if you want direct deposit and answering a few questions on what kind of “publisher” you are: business, individual, etc. If you are publishing a book, you then receive the following message.
