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  Unbridled Books now Offering 25 eBooks for $.25

  1992 readersUnbridled Books is running a 3 day sale right now, and if you like eclectic literary fiction you can pick up some titles today for just a quarter each.  The sale runs through June 11th, and you can find all titles in Google Books. But it’s a lit...

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  25 ebooks for 25 cents – through independent booksellers

  2540 readersAccording to Publishers Weekly, Unbridled Books is teaming up with the American Booksellers Association to offer 25 of its titles in ebook form for 25 cents.  They can be bought exclusively through the 250 independent booksellers who are part of the Google Books/ABA platform. The 25 titles on sale for 25 cents include some of

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  Bookstores may not carry Amazon-published print books

  1640 readersThe Boston Herald looks at the decision bookstores have to make over whether to carry printed books from the new publishing imprint Amazon has launched. Dana Brigham, co-owner of Brookline Booksmith, an independent bookseller in Brookline, has doubts about carrying books bound by Amazon at her Coolidge Corner shop. “They are a huge competitor, and they

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  A Glimpse at Australia’s 2011 Book Market

  807 readers Booksellers New Zealand has published a brief report on the 2011 Australian book industry that details some of the major developments, particularly in bookselling. Australia’s book industry weathered some major disruptions in 2011, most importantly the closure of REDgroup-owned bookstore chains, Angus & Robertson and Borders. The report says that 130 bookstores closed, leading to a

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  Google’s indie-bookstore reseller plan stumbles on reseller price issue

  3459 readersEbooknewser has pointed out one of the unmentioned problems with Google’s much-vaunted plan to allow indie bookstores to “resell” e-books on their websites: price variability. Whereas Google is matching Amazon on pricing, including $9.99 for many e-books, indie stores may have to charge higher rates in order to make a profit. For example, for the

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  UK bookstore owner calls for e-book/print book bundling

  1469 readersOn the Bookseller blog, UK bookstore owner Tim O’Kelly looks at the impending rise of e-books and fall of bookstores, the purchase of The Book Depository by Amazon and the general upheaval in the publishing industry and calls for action to strengthen publishing and slow down bookstores’ demise. What action does he call for? Bundling

• Retweet: The New York Times Company earnings call

  1755 readersIt's earnings time and in the newspaper industry no earnings presentation is listened to as closely as that of The New York Times Company. Yesterday the company reported their earnings and if you were a media site that lives off of rewriting press releases then the news was good: net income rose to $42.1 million.

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  Local Bookseller Argues Vital Role For Bookstores in E-Book Age, Move to Consigment Model (Video)

  896 readers Digital Book World: What is your take on the idea of “bookstore showroom,” which insinuates that people still like to come into the bookstore – still like to touch, feel, look – and then perhaps buy online or somewhere else? Michell Kaplan, owner of bookstore chain Books and Books in South Florida: One of the reasons

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  54 Developers Collaborate Insanely Huge Indie Game Sale

  1258 readersIf you’ve got some spare change rubbing together in your pocket then you might want to pull it out. A huge sale was launched today which spans over 200 games on many different platforms, including iOS, OSX, Android, and Windows. So, why the sale? The developers don’t really give a reason other than they’re putting

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  Best-Read Cities, According to Amazon

  384 readersI had to write about this since the number 1 spot was taken by my neighboring city, Alexandria, Va., and the 18th was also a Virginia city, Richmond, where my son is in school. Go VA! Here’s the complete list, compiled by Amazon, and based on sales numbers of books, newspapers and magazines, both print and