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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Scribd and Oyster offer better value than Kindle Unlimited for avid readers of popular books


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Scribd and Oyster offer better value than Kindle Unlimited for avid readers of popular books (USA Today)

Amazon makes plea to authors to quiet down (Publishers Weekly); 

Survey: book buyers leaving Amazon because of Hachette dispute (Forbes)

Indie publisher releases what it claims to be the first legally sound book by Salinger to be published in 50 years, and the first to appear in ebook and audiobook (Publishers Weekly)

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