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News from the Dead Zone FEARnet.com Which brings us to "Mile 81," an 80-page eBook from Scribner that contains the 17000-word novella and an excerpt from King's upcoming novel, 11/22/63, available for Kindle, Nook, iBook and other readers/apps. Klout.com made the eBook available to … and more »

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If Amazon gets public libraries on board, it would be the death of ePub. Well, if there was any doubt Amazon has totally vanquished everyone else, there’s no doubt now. From OverDrive: A user will be able to browse for titles on any …

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In life as in death, it seems, getting your hands on an iPad 2 is no easy feat. Reuters is reporting today that paper replicas.

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by accent on eclectic

The paperback is dead ? long live the ebook!

Many of us like to cuddle up with a book. There is something comforting about the rustle of paper. Memories of childhood flood back as we turn the pages. We tell ourselves that there’s no way the paperback is going to die: there are too many people, like us, to keep it alive.

It’s time for a reality check.

Bookshops are closing and it’s not because people have stopped reading. They haven’t. The success of Dan Brown and other celebrity authors puts the lie to that. Bookshops are closing because paper books are appallingly expensive to distribute.

As with all other products, it comes down to price. Charge too much and people stop buying. Ignore the protests of those who say that royalties and printing costs are the killers. They’re not. Authors of paper books receive a pittance for their labours in percentage terms and printing costs are relatively small, particularly for big runs.

Give a moment’s thought to distribution. The books have to be taken from the printery to a warehouse where thousand upon thousand of titles are stored. From there they go to the individual bookshops where they are placed on shelves. If they fail to sell the bookshop staff must rip off the covers and send them back to the distributor for a refund. It is an immensely costly process.

Think of your local supermarket. Do you remember the days when there were two or more brands of olives (salad cream etc) on the shelves? Even that small range was judged to great and supermarkets cut back on choice.

Now think of the bookshops. They are expected to offer hundreds of titles in dozens of different categories. That can’t be done without pushing prices to a level where people stop buying. It’s not surprising that many big chains have adopted the supermarket approach and are confining their main effort to a few blockbuster titles and a few established authors. That way the books can be distributed in containers – much in the same way as baked beans.

As an author, I would find all this intensely depressing if it were not for the advent of the ebook. In a single stroke the distribution problem has been solved. Books can now be delivered from the publisher to the reader at the click of a mouse. That means book prices can be brought down to levels where readers will start buying again. The development and upgrading of the iPad, Kindle, Nook and other user-friendly devices will hugely speed the process.

I have converted one of my novels, Curtin Express, to digital form. As a paperback, it retailed for . The ebook has just gone on sale at Amazon for . It is illustrated by over 130 photographs. Readers can see the forbidding terrain that my young hero battles as he flees from his pursuers – not just read about it. The electronic version is a superior product at a far lower price. Yet, despite this very low (opening) price, my royalties are not significantly less than when the novel was published as a paperback.

To see what I mean, go to:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004J8HRIW and judge for yourself.

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Print isn't dead, yet District Paperback publishers were young, not as well-versed, middle class and accessible. Sound familiar? Chances are, your grandparents weren't the first people you knew with and iPad or a Kindle. So has the e-reader just created an evolution of book buying … Living SinglesNew York Times all 11 news articles »

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) – Raising the Dead. By. Gina. – February 8, 2011 Posted in: Free Stuff, Kindle, books. Don’t have a Kindle or a Nook? Don’t worry! You can read all the free and cheap ebooks right on your PC, Mac, Iphone, …

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Who says that money cannot buy life? OK, so we’re dealing with digital life here in terms of data, but [...]

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Instead, we’re going to recommend that you download Dead Space for your iPhone/iPod Touch or iPad and get down to the Dead Space-ing. Use stasis to freeze an enemy, switch to the plasma cutter, orient it vertically, sever his arm and …

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by JorgenSmith

Arbor Books Publishing E-book: “Six Reasons the Anti-Self-Publishing Movement Is Dead”

(New York, NY)-Is the new world order in publishing leaving the old guard behind? Many industry experts seem to think so, though there are those on the periphery who persist in trying to stop one of publishing’s greatest movements: the hundreds of thousands of independent, self-published authors.

First some background. There is no doubt about it: publishing is going through a massive change, both rapid and permanent. E-books are the new reality and traditional bookstores are closing en masse. Bookstore operators are bereft of ways to bring in buyers as Kindle and iPad owners simply bypass them for an easy and instant purchase experience.

The same is happening on a nationwide scale with one of the publishing industry’s largest traditional customers: school systems. Digital books may, within a decade, replace all textbooks in America because they are cheap and don’t require massive storage space or shipping costs.

The dislocation is unsettling but inevitable as the publishing industry undergoes nothing less than an evolutionary change. One era has ended and a new one is dawning.

One group that may benefit greatly from this change is independent authors, until now kept in check by the dominance of the “big six” publishers. Trying to destroy this independent movement has been the sole focus of a tiny but vociferous cadre of defenders of the publishing status quo. They are the anti-self-publishing pack-or, to quote William Safire, the “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”

Under the pretense of consumer advocacy, for years and with little or no evidence, these demagogues were quick to accuse people who worked in independent publishing as scam operators or worse. “Heretics beware” seemed to be their motto as they labeled selected targets in the independent publishing movement as frauds. They hounded their targets with enthusiasm and malevolence, usually in forums and blogs.

But despite this tiny group’s best efforts, the independent publishing movement, while never nurtured by the mainstream publishers, was often embraced by them. It wasn’t unusual for them to cherry-pick self-published titles for their own lists. And it was always good for a headline.

The independent movement, spurred first by vanity publishers and then by POD, was always welcomed by Bowker, Baker & Taylor, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders.

It seems that the objection to self-publishing by the cadre of modern-day inquisitors had less to do with truth and more to do with ideology-how to control how book buyers chose to spend their dollars and how to keep authors from going independent and wrecking the status quo.

But now the independents are here, and they may be the vanguard of a revolution thanks to the Internet. More than any other factors, the growth in e-books and the sales and marketing potential of the Internet are shaping the future of publishing. That is the indisputable reality. Consider the facts:

* Literary agents are now seriously contemplating charging fees for their services-once a mortal sin in their eyes and still a bugaboo for the four literary agent associations.

* Ten times as many independent authors were published last year as those published by mainstream publishers, according to Bowker.

* Amazon is offering a whopping seventy-percent royalty to e-book authors, compared to the five and ten percent offered to the mainstream publishers.

* The Internet is now a vital resource for promoting books; there are even Internet virtual book tours, and bloggers have the power to drive the sales of hundreds of thousands of copies.

* Many mainstream authors are already deciding to go straight to e-books.

* Many established authors are also buying up their old rights so that they can promote their books online, without the help of publishers.

For more information, please feel free to visit Arbor Books, Inc. at www.arborbooks.com or call 1-800-877-2500.

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http://www.1888pressrelease.com/arbor-books-publishing-e-book-six-reasons-the-anti-self-pu-pr-263025.html