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Copia Offers Turnkey Storefronts to Lure Indie Booksellers
As its launch date approaches, Copia, a book-focused social network and e-commerce platform, is unveiling a new partnership program offering independent bookstores a turnkey online retailing solution with digital fulfillment supplied by Copia. However, some independent retailers have questioned the proposed service, concerned that affiliating with a large international retailing and merchandising company will undermine their independence.
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New Owners, New Business Model at Wowio.com
Acquired by new owners in June 2009, Wowio.com, a formerly financially troubled Web site offering downloadable and online comics and prose e-books, has managed to pay off its creditors and revamp its business plan around digital distribution and online syndication.
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B&N's PubIt Newest Self-Publishing Entrant
Barnes & Noble's official launch last week of PubIt, its self-publishing digital platform, makes the bookstore chain the latest industry player to offer some sort of service for the rapidly growing self-publishing market. PubIt will allow authors and independent publishers to load e-books into its system for free.
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Fictionwise to End Branded Stores
According to a post on agent and e-book publisher Richard Curtis' Web site, Fictionwise will close its branded stores by the end of the month. The store-fronts are hosted by Fictionwise and enable customers to view only a publisher’s own titles rather than the list of all e-books sold by Fictionwise.
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Samhain to Close My Bookstore & More
Samhain, the mostly digital publisher of romance in all its permutations, is going to close the My Bookstore & More e-book e-commerce site toward the end of the year, according to the romance book blog Dear Author. Samhain purchased My Bookstore and is going to use its shopping cart software to sell exclusively Samhain titles.
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Publishers Back Amazon on E-book-Hardcover Figures
Ever since Amazon released the news Monday that it was now selling more e-books than hardcovers, the industry has been examining the veracity of the claim. Amazon, after all, has a tradition of releasing selected figures while withholding total sales numbers, just as it did in this case by not releasing actual sales for e-books, hardcovers or Kindles. Some suggested that Amazon's e-book to hardcover sales ratio was only for customers who shop in the Kindle store, not for all customers. But Amazon was adamant the figures included all customers of its U.S. book business, and the e-tailer's claim has been supported by publishers.
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NetGalley Hits Pay Dirt
NetGalley has gone through several incarnations since it was launched just before the 2008 BookExpo America, but its current phase is the most encouraging—it has paying customers. "We're not in a trial period anymore," said marketing director Susan Ruszala.
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B&N, Blackboard in Pact to Offer NookStudy, e-Textbooks
Moving to combine its expertise running college bookstores with its increasing share of the e-book retail market, Barnes & Noble announced a partnership with Blackboard, an online teaching and study platform used by colleges across the country, that will allow students to purchase and download B&N study content through the Blackboard platform. The new partnership will integrate the Blackboard platform with NookStudy, a forthcoming software application from B&N that will let students buy, aggregate and customize digital textbook content on their Macs or PCs.
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The Price Is What?
Thanks to the agency model, e-book prices get a little wacky
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Books-A-Million Launches E-Bookstore
Books-A-Million executives had promised to enter the e-book market this summer and the retailer has quietly launched an e-bookstore and digital audio site at booksamillion.com. According to BAM, the e-bookstore has "hundreds of thousands of downloadable titles" that "are compatible with a wide variety of reading platforms including PCs, Macs and various eReaders." The site includes an e-book bestsellers list and a wide variety of prices.
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U.S. Publishers Join Canada's iBookstore
Apple has opened an iBookstore in Canada and Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins are among the U.S. publishers that are selling their titles in the digital store front.
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Amazon Puts 70% Royalty in Place for DTP Publishing
Amazon, as it had promised, is now offering a 70% royalty rate for authors who publish their work through its Kindle Digital Text Platform. The move means authors who publish the digital edition of their books through the e-tailer will now, as Amazon noted in its announcement, receive 70 percent of the list price of their title, net of delivery costs.
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Amazon.com Crashes
Although it isn't clear when it happened, Amazon.com appears to have crashed.
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B&N Sees Strong Growth in Consumer Books, Led by Digital
In an investor conference Tuesday morning, Barnes & Noble executives painted an upbeat forecast for both the consumer book market in general and B&N in particular. The company forecast that the consumer book market will grow from $23 billion in 2010, to $27 billion in 2013, with all the growth coming from e-book sales.
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IOBA Takes on Amazon in Europe
As Melville House's Dennis Johnson blogged about, the Independent Online Booksellers' Association is confronting Amazon across the Atlantic.
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B&N Does eReader App for iPad
Barnes & Noble has announced a free reader app for the iPad called the BN eReader. With the app, users can buy and read ebooks, magazines and newspapers from B&N's ebookstore, as well as accessing their personal digital libraries on the site. The app also allows users to share their ebooks with friends, a feature which the retailer says is a first for an app like this. With the sharing technology, users can select certain titles from their library to lend to friends with a Nook, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (as well as a PC), for a 14-day period.
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BookMasters Offers Digital Distribution
The BookMasters Group is the latest distributor to offer conversion and digital distribution for its clients and other publishers.
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MediaNet the Latest to Enter e-Book Distribution Marketplace
Digital music and video distributor MediaNet announced plans to expand its digital content offerings with the launch of an e-book catalog and distribution service for as many as 200,000 digital book titles from a range of major publishers.
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Presse Bookstore Launches E-Commerce Site
For every Irene Némirovsky, Isabel Allende, and Stieg Larsson, there are dozens more unknown international authors who Harvetta Asamoah thinks have the potential to captivate readers in the same way. Asamoah, who owns Presse Bookstore in Washington, D.C., just took a step toward making that happen, by launching an e-commerce site that will hopefully bring a world of visitors to her little shop.
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First Agency Model Casualty: Amazon Not Selling New Penguin e-Books
The lack of a new agreement over terms of sale has resulted in Amazon deciding not to sell new Penguin e-books as the industry adapts to life in the new agency model era.
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