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  How to Boost Your Online Book Sales With “Sales Nodes”

  1818 readers By Carolyn McCray, Author | @craftycmc Once a reader has bought and read your book, then what? Back to the well for another title? Not so fast, reader! Publishers and authors can use “sales nodes” to make additional sales to each reader. Related: Gaining Traction in the Amazon Ebook Marketplace | The Benefits of Dynamic Price Pulsing | Best

• Apple Joins Amazon in Quest to Establish Market for Used Ebooks

  694 readersApple filed for a patent yesterday for a system for ebook readers to buy and sell used ebooks, according to the New York Times. Apple joins Amazon in its quest to establish a marketplace for used ebooks. Amazon received approval for its patent for a used ebook marketplace in February. The two major digital content sellers, however,

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  Kindle sales figures leak; beats analyst estimates by 60%

  1676 readersBloomberg has a report from anonymous sources close to Amazon who are shedding some light on how well the Kindle devices have been selling. If the figures can be trusted, Amazon sold 2.4 million Kindles in 2009, and expects to have sold more than 8 million in 2010. That’s 3 million units or 60% higher

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  Espresso Book Machine to get Harper backlist

  2116 readers This is the type of thing that can lead to the Machine finally getting some traction.  From Publishers Weekly: On Demand Books’ Espresso Book Machine has had a difficult time gaining traction with just a couple of dozen booksellers using the printer, but the company hopes that will change now that it has reached

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  Why Apple’s New ‘Maps’ App Presents A Huge Opportunity For Google

  790 readersMany pundits are declaring the Apple’s new “Maps” application for iOS—which ditches Google’s mapping data for something developed in house—is a death knell for Google in the mobile mapping space. On the contrary, it actually presents a golden opportunity for Google to gain traction. Apple’s new mapping app looks great, with free turn-by-turn navigation (see right), and

• A Children’s Ebook Throwback: Me Books Shuns Interactivity

  113 readersA small children’s digital book platform is gaining traction in the UK by going in the opposite direction of its competitors.While other platforms, like RR Kidz, Ruckus, Amazon, Scholastic and nearly a dozen more, are offering children the interactive experiences that it is thought that they crave, UK-based Me Books is finding success doing two

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  Why haven’t Android tablets taken off?

  1244 readers Android tablets have nowhere near the market share that Adroid phones have captured.  Why is this?  Well, John Gruber, in Daring Fireball, speculates as to the reason: My hypothesis has long been that Android has very little traction in and of itself. What has traction is the traditional pattern where customers go to their existing carrier’s

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  Amazon vs. Big Publishing: 800 lbs vs. 798 lbs.

  2582 readers Last week’s issue of Bloomberg’s Businessweek included an article titled Amazon’s Hitman. If you haven’t read it, you should. It is enlightening. The gist of the article is that Amazon is gearing up to challenge the publishing world on its own turf: the signing of and creation of big-name authors who sell hundreds of thousands, if

• E-Books vs. Print Books to Stabilize at 50%?

  955 readers According to Mike Shatzkin, who spoke with an executive at a big-six publishing house, e-book growth is slowing down enough now to suggest that e-books and print-books could stabilize at 50% of the market each (Extending the Life of Bookstores Is Critical, But Devilishly Difficult): One Big Six executive told me that ebook sales in their

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  Bookstore sells book subscriptions with personalized recommendation service

  1120 readersOn Publishing Perspectives, Rachel Aydt has an interesting story about a bookseller who has decided to try to make use of the Internet in an unusual way to sell more books. Roxanne Coady, owner of R. J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut, has a personalized reading recommendation and subscription service called Just The Right Book.com. The