Amazon Encore the publishing imprint of the internet retailer has signed a deal with JA Konrath to publish his next ‘Jack’ Daniel title, Shaken. This is pretty big news, as Mike Shatzkin points out: this is a significant jolt to conventional publishing economics. Sales of Konrath’s $2.99 ebook will deliver him about $2.10 a copy … Continue reading Amazon Encore Signs JA Konrath
You have to wonder just how many books Amazon Encore has to publish before we consider it a fully fledged book publisher? I wrote a long post about the implications of Amazon Encore here some time ago. In it I said: Sure this can be extended and it is clearly being set up to do … Continue reading Amazon Encore: Again, Again, Again
As well as being a distributor and retailer Amazon IS a publisher of size and merit. Just in case that wasn’t obvious before, they made it so with the announcement today: Amazon and The Toby Press today announced that Amazon plans to acquire the publication rights of up to 121 books currently published by The … Continue reading Go Read This | Amazon Media Room: News Release
In many ways this is a fairly sensible move from Amazon: Similar to AmazonEncore, Amazon’s first publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing uses customer feedback and other data from Amazon sites around the world to identify exceptional books deserving of a wider, global audience. AmazonCrossing will acquire the rights and translate the books and then introduce them to … Continue reading Amazon Creates Translation Publishing Imprint: AmazonCrossing
Eoin Purcell Quiet moves Lost amid the launch of Amazon Encore which I spoke of a little earlier in the week, was the announcement that Amazon are offering sign up to the Kindle platform for any blogger who wants the opportunity. At first glance this seems a pretty genius option for the blogger, access to … Continue reading Bloggers: Amazon will eat your lunch
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