Stefan Wolpers's List: Self-publishing

The Ultimate Guide to Publishing Your eBook on Amazon’s Kindle Platform

For some publishers, eBooks are a scary brave new world. To help these folks navigate the waters of the digital publishing revolution and learn by example, we’ve put together a list of some of the leaders in the eBook world. It is worth exploring the work of these leading digital publishers. We’ve listed 5 innovators whose work we are watching.

The tidal wave of content being published online is astronomical. As more content continues to be produced, new methods for sorting, filtering and displaying content have come into being. As the astute AJ Kohn put it, AuthorRank is Google’s attempt at “fusing the web of people with the web of documents and creating a more savvy view of Internet influence.”
For the average writer, marketer or content producer, AuthorRank presents a great opportunity for personal branding, but also makes us individually responsible for the quality of work we produce. Evaluating the quality of content is Google’s job, and moving into the future it’s clear Google seeks to evaluate the substantive quality of authors. By understanding AuthorRank now, authors can establish themselves and their aggregated body of work as worthy of being ranked.

eBook Sales to Mobile Devices Will Approach $10 Billion by 2016, Says Juniper

Welcome to the U.S. ISBN Agency, the official source for ISBNs in the United States.

After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust investigation in to whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.

"Eine kleine Geschichte der Aneignung der Produktionsmittel durch den Autor nebst Überlegungen, die Zukunft betreffend"

What Mr. Seaman, who lives in Birmingham, England, did not anticipate when writing his crime novel, “The Killing of Emma Gross,” a murder mystery set in Weimar-era Germany, was that his readers would have to pay a hefty tax that was not levied on any printed book.

The division of the consumer’s dollar across the publishing value chain has a history of change. When I came into the business 50 years ago, discounts from publishers to retailers often topped out at 44% and even wholesalers seldom got more than 48% off the retail price on hardcover books. Today discounts into the mid-50s for big retailers and for wholesalers are common.

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Seit Jahren sind Selfpublishing-Seiten im Netz ein Ort literarischer Selbstverwirklichung. Nun soll mit den Hobbyautoren endlich Geld verdient werden.

Comparing E-Readers And E-Reader/Tablets: Kindles, Nooks, Sony, Kobo

If someone told you that there was a quick and easy way that many of you could improve your SERP CTR for minimal effort, you'd all stop in your tracks and give them full attention. Yet, Schema.org and rich snippets are still horribly under-utilized.

The eBooks on Demand (EOD) search makes currently available over 1,5 Mio records from 11 libraries - giving direct access to already digitised items as well as books offered for digitisation on demand.
However, only a part of all records available for the EOD service have been ingested into the search engine so far. To order also the other items for digitisation, please also search in the individual catalogues of the participating libraries.

If you believe in karma, it should come as no surprise that e-readers are slowly killing off print books — perhaps in retaliation for all those trees murdered over the years.

This is absolutely brilliant! She fools people into thinking that her books are really cheap, but like Apple's in-app purchases she is getting (almost) full value on each "complete" book.
This is the true story of the 99 cent book. You use the 99 cents to lure people in, cut up your product to the size of snacking, and get people to buy the full price for all the snacks combined.
That is the true power of the 99 cent book.

Ebook sales are now counting for 17% of revenue at Simon & Schuster. That’s up slightly from last quarter, and it’s also about double whart S&S reported last year.

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High-tech e-book gadgets are one thing that is revolutionizing publishing. If companies like Silicon Valley startup FastPencil get their way, new social-networking-based self-publishing services will be another. FastPencil is what CEO Steve Wilson calls a "next-gen" publisher, which uses social networking and an arsenal of widgets to take authors through their book projects from the drawing board to the bookshelf, potentially for as little as $10. The key, says Wilson, is that FastPencil gets involved with authors as they write their books -- not after, as traditional and other online publishers do.