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.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on August 30, 2009
Friday, Smashwords authors received a lengthy email from Smashwords CEO Mark Coker announcing that distribution through major retailers is in the works, “the first of which is Barnes & Noble and their various properties including Barnesandnoble.com, Fictionwise and their eReader app.”
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By Shannon Yarbrough on April 2, 2008
Based on sketchy information posted in the Lulu Forums, it looks like Lulu.com has probably agreed to Amazon’s ultimatum. Due to the fees I’m sure Amazon will be slapping publishers with for having to use its Booksurge printing services, we can probably look forward to increased fees to be passed on to users as well. I chatted with a Lulu representative today through their online chat support hoping to get some info for you, but was pretty much given “blanket” information that anyone would already be privy to.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on March 31, 2008
Thanks to Veinglory over at PodPeep again for bringing this letter from Amazon to our attention in regards to the recent matter addressed in my previous post about Amazon monopolizing the POD printing industry by requiring all POD publishers to use their BookSurge company for printing or the BUY button of their books would be taken down.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on March 28, 2008
Although I had already planned to blog about it when I got home from work today , and I’m sure most of you have heard about it by now, per Veinglory’s request I’d like to voice a bit of my outrage about Amazon’s recent approach to Publish America to use Booksurge as a printing source or else! Or else what? Or else the BUY buttons would be removed from the PA books on Amazon.com and the books would only be available through third party sellers.
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