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 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.”
Posted in Announcements, E-publishing, News, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged barnes and noble, ebook, smashwords |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 13, 2009
With Amazon.com launching its Kindle DX last week, it seems E-reading isn’t going away anytime soon. It’s only going to get bigger and better.
Posted in E-publishing, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon e-publishing, DIY publishing, e-book, e-book formatting, E-publishing, ebook, ebook formatting, Kindle, lulu download, lulu ebook, lulu.com, mark coker, smashwords |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 7, 2009
Read an E-Book Week is March 8th through the 14th, but you don’t need a Sony E-reader or Amazon Kindle to participate. There are lots of Ebooks available from Lulu which can be downloaded right to your desktop as a PDF file.
Posted in E-publishing, Interviews, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged ebook, mark coker, read an ebook week, smashwords, word clay |
