Amazon announced another changed in how they will compensate self-published authors who participate in the Kindle Unlimited subscription payment pool. In July the system switched from paying for every download to paying based on pages read — and now those per-page rates are becoming much more complicated, international, and opaque. Starting with the November fund […]
Archives for October 2015
Subscription Service Blloon Closes
It’s no big surprise that European-based subscription service Blloon is officially closing at the end of October. The subscription program was spun out of ebook technology provider and platform txtr — which went insolvent earlier this year, before pieces of the operation and some of its personnel were picked up by retailer Media-Saturn — and both […]
PW’s 10 Best of 2015
Also following tradition, PW goes early with their list of the 10 best books of 2015. Always a little quirky, this year’s list leans male (seven of the titles) and international (including three novels in translation): Nonfiction Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau) The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea […]
Indie Next Lists Will Feature Highlighted Backlist “Revisit & Rediscover” Picks
The ABA announced a new initiative “to showcase and support favorite backlist titles,” as selected by panels of independent booksellers. Starting with the December picks, the Indie Next monthly and kids’ lists will feature the Revisit & Rediscover selections. For December’s Indie Next List, they are touting: Wild Swans, by Jung Chang (Touchstone) About Grace, by Anthony […]
People
Mitch Hoffman will join the Aaron Priest Literary Agency as senior agent on November 30. Previously he was executive editor at Grand Central Publishing. Priest said in the announcement: “Mitch is a superb and caring editor with great knowledge of all aspects of the publishing business. All of these qualities will serve to make him […]
In Supreme Court Filing, Apple Claims Appeals Court Decision “Will Harm Competition And The National Economy”
Per the prescribed deadline, Apple filed its petition for a writ of certoriari with the Supreme Court late Wednesday, asking it to review the 2-1 decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the verdict finding Apple guilty of antitrust violations in launching the iBooks Store. Though the docket does not reflect the updated […]