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  Smashwords: Smashwords Year in Review 2011

  2575 readers Welcome to my annual Smashwords year in review. 2011 was another strong year for Smashwords and our authors. We’re ending the year with over 92,000 titles published, up from 28,800 at the end of last year. In my 2010 year in review post, 75,000 was my stretch goal for this year, so we beat it by a good margin. Smashwords

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  The new dawn of fiction – how reading can survive in the modern age

  1156 readersLast week, a consortium of Dutch publishers unveiled the so called “delay app”, which allows the reader to choose a story to read while waiting. It allows the user to chose a story from a we...

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  OverDrive App Has 16 M Downloads in 2012

  1800 readersOverDrive, a company that powers eBook distribution for schools and libraries, reported today that its number of registered user sessions was up 93 percent, in 2012 as compared to 2011. According to a new report from OverDrive, the company had 192 million registered visitor sessions last year, which was a huge spike from the prior year. According to the

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  Kobo Android app updated

  1320 readersFrom the Kobo blog. I just downloaded it to my new Samsung Captivate phone and will let you know how it works out. Further, we know that being able to read any eBook is important, and we’ve listened to your request. So what’s new? The ability to search, add and read Internet Archive ePubs –

• Kobo Ups Royalties Paid to Authors Through Writing Life, Sept. Through Nov.

  706 readers [Press Release] Self-Published Authors Can Earn Up To 80 Percent in Royalties Through Kobo Writing Life This Fall Easy-to-use portal catapults self-published eBook sales by 700 percent in single month Kobo Inc., a global leader in eReading, today announced that authors registered for its Kobo Writing Life self-publishing portal will earn an additional 10 percent on the sale

• Kobo Ups Royalties Paid to Authors Through Writing Life, Sept. Through Nov.

  374 readers [Press Release] Self-Published Authors Can Earn Up To 80 Percent in Royalties Through Kobo Writing Life This Fall Easy-to-use portal catapults self-published eBook sales by 700 percent in single month Kobo Inc., a global leader in eReading, today announced that authors registered for its Kobo Writing Life self-publishing portal will earn an additional 10 percent on the sale

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  Scholastic’s Aggressive Digital Moves

  571 readersChildren’s publisher and distributor Scholastic has been very aggressive in recent years making investments in digital publishing. Perhaps the best example of this is Storia, the ebook and digital reading platform that the company is growing and nurturing in a dense forest of competition – both from saplings like Me Books and MeeGenius and redwoods

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  Testimonial from an author

  581 readersGot this email fromMichael Solomon and I thought it was worth sharing: I am a self-publishing author who, three years ago, began offering (on my Web site and also onmininova.com, a bit-torrent site) free downloads of my books. I had decided that my main goal in writing was not sales, but readers. (I have a

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  Author Jeffrey Carver ends free downloads

  1583 readersAuthor Jeffrey Carver has decided to end his policy of giving free downloads. Here’s what he says: I’ve been running the free-downloads experiment for more than two years now. Here’s my conclusion: The free downloads have significantly expanded my audience, and enabled me to meet some very nice people electronically. But they haven’t done much

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  Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC: Transforming Sales Tools

  1205 readers To date, the Sotheby’s International Realty network has seen great success with its privately published iPad app, Anthology: The Collection of an Extraordinary Brand, created with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Enterprise Edition. In the first month the iPad app was available, the company saw more than 670 app downloads and nearly 5,500 individual folio downloads, which