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Pronoun Launches Free eBook Distribution Service

September 28, 2015
By Michael Cader

The relaunch of a pivoted Vook/Booklr/Byliner under the new name Pronoun.com that was announced in May is now live, at least for “early access” authors. The company’s author terms are posted; they require exclusive distribution to Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play as a group while authors work with them, but promise to […]

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Scouting the Bad and the Very Bad in Kindle’s Reader-Powered Platform

March 18, 2015
By Michael Cader

Katy Waldman at Slate has a look at some of the featured titles in the recent Kindle Scout initiative, where readers are supposed to sample excerpts from unpublished manuscripts and recommend them for publication through Kindle Press. Her theme is: “This kind of writing is unabashed. It is breathtakingly, gloriously bad. And it raises a question: […]

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Malcolm X Estate to Self-Publish eBooks

February 20, 2015
By Michael Cader

The Malcolm X Estate will issue an ebook edition of The Autobiography of Malcolm X on their own in May, rather than work with longtime print publishing partner Ballantine, the AP reports. L. Londell McMillan, an attorney for the estate, notes that “Malcolm X was a fervent advocate for self-help, self-reliance and self-respect.” He added, “Today’s technology […]

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Digital: News from KU, Kobo, Scribd and Curtis Brown UK

December 12, 2014
By Michael Cader

Amazon has launched Kindle Unlimited in France and Brussels. Kobo is bringing “three-for-two” deals from the trade paperback tables to the ebookstore — starting with a promotion in the US with Hachette Book Group, good only through December 15. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is now participating in Scribd‘s ebook subscription service. (HMH is one of the […]

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Today’s Amazon News: Kindle Scout, Pop-Up Stores, and More

October 14, 2014
By Michael Cader

Amazon officially went live with “Kindle Scout,” the service we already reported on that invites writers to submit manuscripts for review by readers and then Amazon Publishing editors, for consideration under a templated publishing deal. (The company has been referring to it as a “reader-powered” publishing program.) They are looking for submissions in the romance, mystery […]

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Seth Godin Direct — and In Print Only

October 3, 2014
By Michael Cader

Author, entrepreneur and “ruckus maker” Seth Godin has unveiled his latest experiment in a long line of efforts to publish directly: His new forthcoming book WHAT TO DO WHEN IT’S YOUR TURN [And it’s always your turn] is available online for discounted direct, pre-order through October 8, while Godin closes his first printing. The trade paperback […]

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