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  Breakdown of categories in the Kindle Lending Library

  752 readers Here is the listing of categories and book totals from the Kindle Lending Library.  This is from my Kindle 4: All books: 5,156 Fiction: 1,346 Non-fiction: 3,865 Advice and how-to: 734 Business & investing: 480 Politics & current events: 90 Literary fiction: 78 Biographies & memoirs: 223 Religion & spirituality: 456 Science fiction: 68 Fantasy: 30 Mystery & thrillers: 149 Romance: 330 Science: 189 History: 271 Children’s ebooks: 294 Reference: 481 Travel: 247 Sports:

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  Morning Roundup: A journalist’s guide to navigating fair use of copyrighted material

  598 readersSelf-Published eBooks Account for 12% of Entire Digital Market (Good e-Reader) Bowker Market Research is reporting today that self-published eBooks now account for 12% of the entire digital publishing market. In some cases, the number actually rises to a very respectable 20%, but is fairly genre specific to crime, science fiction and fantasy, romance and humor.

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  E-Reads cuts deal with Gollancz for UK publication of 400 SF ebook titles

  1310 readers From the [e-reads] blog: E-Reads has signed a deal with UK publisher Gollancz to publish e-book editions in the UK and Commonwealth of almost 400 science fiction and fantasy titles as part of Gollancz’s Gateway initiative. Orion deputy CEO and publisher Malcolm Edwards and Gollancz digital publisher Darren Nash negotiated the deal, which includes

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  Diesel eBooks announces partnership with E-Reads

  1338 readersFrom the press release: The Diesel eBook Store , one of the world’s largest independent eBook stores, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with E-Reads, a leading publisher of quality fiction and nonfiction reprints. Richard Curtis, founder of E-Reads and president of a leading literary agency, is a highly respected and

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  Quirk Books is “Looking for Love” with $10,000 unpublished love story fiction contest

  333 readers[PRESS RELEASE] Quirk Books has announced its “Looking for Love” fiction contest and invites writers to submit unpublished novel-length manuscripts containing a love story. The prize is publication by Quirk Books and a $10,000 advance against royalties. Since 2009, Quirk’s fiction program has introduced readers to YA fantasy (including the #1 New York Times best seller Miss Peregrine ’s Home

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  E-Reads acquires Brian Aldiss backlist

  1063 readers From the press release: E-Reads, a leading independent e-book publisher and a powerhouse in fantasy and science fiction, has acquired US e-book and print rights to fifteen titles by British science fiction Grandmaster Brian Aldiss, winner of two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Included in

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  Competing with Free: eBooks vs. eBooks

  925 readersMy to-be-read pile of ebooks keeps growing. Unfortunately for publishers, however, it keeps growing with free offerings from both publishers and self-publishers. I admit that a lot of the free self-published books should never have seen fingers on a keyboard, but I also have to admit that I am finding a lot of good reads

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  Group looks to create Rabble Reads, an aggregated book review site for indie and traditional books

  1586 readersBeing able to trust a book review on popular sites such as Amazon and Goodreads is getting difficult. These sites have fake reviews—some good and some bad—designed to work the system by raising and droping books in the rankings. Amy Holman Edelman and those at IndieReader are looking to help readers with this problem. They recently created a Kickstarter campaing to

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  Google Maps now Shows 3D Buildings

  1986 readersHave you tried the Google Maps Android app lately?If you haven’t, go check out the new 3D buildings in London, Paris, and Barcelona. When Google updated Google Maps back in December, the new version brought a quiet little feature along with the usual tweaks and bug fixes. gMaps 5.0 broke with the previous generation of mobile

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  Amazon Publishing launches sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint – 47North

  1131 readers From the press release: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of 47North, the seventh imprint from Amazon Publishing, focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror. 47North launches with 15 books, including “The Mongoliad: Book One,” the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these