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September 14, 2011By Michael Cader

Looking for Facts About Self-Published eBooks

September 14, 2011By Michael Cader

With abundant stories of self-published success via Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes & Noble’s PubIt and other outlets–and growing concerns as to whether self-epublishing opportunities and increased acquisitions by Amazon’s own imprints poses a challenge to established publishers–we made self-published ebooks the topic of our latest proprietary consumer survey. As with the insightful look at where Borders customers might take their book-buying dollars, the data was compiled exclusively for Publishers Lunch by Bowker PubTrack, through their regular online survey of book buyers. In this case, answers come only from the 11 percent of people surveyed who bought ebooks during the […]

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