22 Tuesday May 2012
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Amazon’s KDP Select introduced a new tranche of self-publishers to the upper reaches of the charts for the first time. For the first couple of months of this year, a new seam had been discovered in this self-publishing “gold-rush.”
It didn’t last too long, however. By the end of March, even those newly minted authors were openly considering leaving KDP Select, despite how successful it had been for them.
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Here’s a pretty novel use of Twitter: follow the Titanic on its voyage towards impending doom – by following @TitanicRealTime. This account …
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I finished marking some PUB310 semester tests. In one of the questions, I ask students to suggest criteria that would …
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Jenka Eusebio from Appazoogle considers when kids will start saying: “My grandmother reads those paperwhatchamacallits. I think they were called …
Claire Schultz from Appazoogle reports on a Nielsen survey that indicates tablet users are willing to pay for content. It’s …
