In Germany, where fixed price laws
demand a level playing field, Amazon's KDP gave its self-published authors an
edge when it came to ebooks.
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A German art foundation is
experimenting with an open-access self-published monograph as an ebook. Could
this be a model for other institutions looking for greater exposure?
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More News from PP:
Publishing Perspectives' Dennis Abrams
remembers his friend Barbara Park, the late author of the 55 million copy
bestselling Junie B. Jones series.
Talk about a dirty book: herpes
was found on a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey at the Antwerp Library;
meanwhile, all of the top ten borrowed books had traces of cocaine.
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From the Archives:
German Thalia, Weltbild,
Hugendubel, as well as Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom, have launched
Tolino, a new ebook platform to compete with Amazon.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
How Self-Publishing Led Amazon to German Ebook Dominance
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