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By Shannon Yarbrough on July 24, 2010
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 .
Posted in E-publishing, Kindle, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon dtp, amazon kindle, amazon.com, kindle author, kindle device, kindle ereader, kindle for pc, kindle royalty, publish to kindle |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 8, 2010
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 [...]
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By Shannon Yarbrough on December 3, 2009
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.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on November 22, 2009
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.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, book agent, book pricing, book war, cheap book, ebook, ford county, internet book, john grisham, Kindle, print on demand publishing, traditional publishing, walmart books |
By Shannon Yarbrough on October 21, 2009
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.
Posted in Announcements, E-publishing, News, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon kindle, amazon.com, B&N nook, barnes and noble, ereader, Kindle, nook, nook ereader |
By Shannon Yarbrough on October 7, 2009
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.
Posted in Announcements, Kindle, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, international kindle, Kindle, kindle ereader, kindle wireless, u.s. kindle |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 20, 2009
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.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, News, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon.com, author central |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 2, 2009
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:
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, author blog, author central, author connect |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 18, 2009
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…
Posted in CreateSpace, Lulu, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, compare lulu to createspace, CreateSpace, ISBN, Lightning Source, lightning source to createspace, lightning source to lulu, lsi, Lulu, lulu and createspace, POD, print on demand book companies, print on demand books, self publish, self-publishing company |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 13, 2009
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.
Posted in CreateSpace, News, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, CreateSpace, POD, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
