Amazon announced that their 70 percent royalty offer to authors and publishers using their self-service digital text platform and agreeing to a variety of conditions on pricing, availability and features is now available. (The offer currently applies only on sales to US customers.) They say that they have improved the platform itself as well, including “a simplified two-step process for publishing.”Release Toshiba has announced their Book Place ebookstore will launch “in the coming weeks,” to be powered by Baker & Taylor’s Blio. They promise syncing with up to five devices, including tablets and smartphones. Book Place will be pre-loaded on […]