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• Webcast: Self-Publishing Ebooks In The Flourishing Digital Book Market

  312 readersJoin Jane Friedman and Digital Book World Tuesday, April 23 at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT for a live webcast where you’ll get an unbiased look at the independent ebook publishing scene.Self-Publishing Ebooks In The Flourishing Digital Book Market Today’s self-publishing market has been transformed by new distribution tools

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  The UK eBook Market grew by 39% in 2010

  1470 readersThe Publisher’s Association has released new data on the eBook market in the UK. Sale of academic and professional eBooks increased by 29% in 2010, and they still account for more than 70% of the digital market. eBook sales to consumers hit £16m...

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  Digital Book World: what’s the future for brick-and-mortar bookstores? – from an analysts perspective

  752 readersModerator, Sarah Weinman; Michael Cader, Publishers Lunch; Marianne Wolk, Amazon Analyst, SIG Susquehanna Financial Group; Matt Fassler, B&N Analyst, Goldman Sachs Wolk: Amazon seems to have little or no profits for their ebooks in order to get market share. Amazon has the luxury of the very profitable cloud computing business that can subsidize the ebook

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  Digital Book World: Will territorial sales become obsolete? An update on rights issues

  2864 readersCullen Stanley, moderator, Janklow & Nesbit Associates; Jean Arache, Belfond & Presses de la Cite (Paris); Carolyn Savarese, Perseus; Andrew Franklin, Profile Books (London) Arache: France is a fixed price digital market. Protecting the publishers and the bookshops, all with the approval of the government. Going to a fixed price for digital books controlled by

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  Digital Book World: a CEO’s view of the future

  1743 readersJane Friedman, Open Road; Mike Hyatt, Thomas Nelson Publications; Brian Napack, Macmillan; David Steinberger, Perseus Book Groups Friedman: state of industry – vibrant, vital, in midst of secular change. No change in the past like what is happening now. Not a storm, but a tsunami. Nothing will be the same again. 2010 was the end

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  Future of ebook publishing

  1936 readersJoint BEA/IDPF event. Director of Strategic Partners, Google: moderator. Agency model not new.  It was invented originally by the magazine business and was very successful for them. Have some of Google’s best engineers working on what happens when a consumer walks through a bookstore. David Steinberger, Perseus Books Group: big question is how to discover

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  BISG – Keynote – Introducing World Book Night, with Madeline McIntosh

  945 readers Madeline McIntosh is President of Sales, Operations & Digital, Random House World Book Night – doesn’t exist yet, but it will.  Will be April 23, 2012,  World Book Day this already exists, especially overseas.  In UK it was transformed to World Book Night, where gave away 1 million books in one night.  Want to turn this

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  J.A. Konrath Earns $100k From Self Pub Books In 3 Weeks

  1220 readers In another ode to self publishing, DIY author J.A. Konrath posted a blog this week where he revealed that he earned $100,000 grand on Amazon in the last three weeks. Here is more from his post: “This is just for my self-pubbed Kindle titles. It doesn’t include Shaken and Stirred, which were published by Amazon’s imprints. It doesn’t include

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  Bridging the yawning chasm, by Meredith Greene

  3240 readersFor awhile, it seemed, the key words for selling over a million dollars’ worth of eBooks appeared to be “an author with” (insert name of publishing house here), such as “James Patterson, an author with the Hachette Book Group apparently sold over $2 million worth of eBooks in the last 11 months.” Until, that is, a

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  Why an ebook piracy awareness drive is a waste of time and money

  1215 readersThe UK’s Guardian site is running a story with the title “Authors demand drive to raise readers’ awareness of book piracy’s cost“. It’s basically a lot of authors and publishers whining about ebook piracy. They are demanding “someone” do “something” about it and let readers know that it’s bad – maybe via a publicity drive. From