Category: eBooks

Tablet and eReader Ownership Doubles in US

Tablet and eReader Ownership Doubles in US

Our recent post on how well the Kindle did over the Christmas period has been reinforced by new figures released by Pew Internet and American Life. As you can see from the graph above, e-reader ownership jumped from 10% of U.S. households to 19% of those queried for both types of devices, while as many [...]

New Tools for Comic Book Self-Publishers

New Tools for Comic Book Self-Publishers

Graphicly is excited to announce the expansion of its innovative digital distribution platform to better meet the needs of authors and publishers of all types. The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBooks, [...]

Amazon Sets up $6 million Royalty Fund

Amazon Sets up $6 million Royalty Fund

Amazon has set up a $6 million annual royalty fund designed to encourage self-published authors and publishers to do two things: Make their work available exclusively in the Kindle Store for 90-day periods, and include their work in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Those who agree to both terms are eligible to take part in [...]

Socialise Your eBooks

Socialise Your eBooks

The BookPulse platform enables publishers to instantly turn every book into a ‘social eBook’ which enables readers to share their reading experience; connect with their favorite social network; share annotations; discover new books and interact with their friends. The platform puts the publisher/author in the center of the community, by giving them tools to interact [...]

eBook Sales Expected to Reach $9.7 billion by 2016

eBook Sales Expected to Reach $9.7 billion by 2016

Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016, more than three times the $3.2 billion the category is expected to generate this year, according to one forecaster. Strong demand for tablets will drive the growth, UK-based Juniper Research said in a report published Thursday. Nearly 30% of all ebooks in 2016 will [...]

‘Confessions’ is e-Book of the Year

‘Confessions’ is e-Book of the Year

The Friday Project’s Confessions of a GP has been crowned the top-selling UK e-book of the year, according to FutureBook’s weighted digital bestsellers chart. The Benjamin Daniels hit that has been in and around the the weekly chart for much of the year has sold just 8,500 copies in UK in print, but has been [...]

UK Government Holds Firm on e-Book VAT

UK Government Holds Firm on e-Book VAT

he UK government has reiterated its view that it cannot bring down value added tax on e-books despite moves by the French and Luxembourg governments to cut tax rates on digital books so they are charged at the same level as those imposed on print books. Last week, Tom Blenkinsop, the Labour MP for Middlesbrough [...]