HarperCollins To Launch Digital-Only Imprint 0 4 HarperCollins To Launch Digital-Only Imprint Congratulations, fans of the Young Adult fiction, you're getting your own digital publishing imprint. It's called HarperTeen Impulse, and it's 100% digital. Even more surprising is the fact that the titles published under HarperTeen Impulse will be priced between $0.99 and $2.99 -- the well-known "sweet spot" for moving copies on Amazon. For years, traditional
New Paywall Models For News Websites 0 1 New Paywall Models For News Websites Newspapers are on the decline, sure... but when it comes to subscription content sites, there's a surge of innovation going on. Seriously, with Newsweek going digital, the new Vimeo paywall, and now a whole new concept for the Houston Chronicle, it's a paywall bonanza... Whether or not this surge will reverse the downward trend in
eBooks Sales Down In Second Half Of 2012? 2 3 eBooks Sales Down In Second Half Of 2012? While the trajectory for ebook sales is clearly on the way up in the long-term, that doesn't mean it will grow at a steady pace, month after month... That's what we're learning from the Q3 earnings reported by the Hachette Book Group. While ebooks made up an impressive 20% of Hachette's "adult trade book sales"
Amazon Authors Get No Respect, Says Tim Ferriss 0 2 Amazon Authors Get No Respect, Says Tim Ferriss As the publishing world tries to decide what it thinks about ebooks, Amazon is charging ahead with a brand new NY-based publishing house called New Harvest. I'm talking about a real publishing company, as in signing big name authors and distributing actual print books... as in the model that Amazon has helped to render obsolete...
Random House And Penguin Form Mutant ePub Hybrid 3 2 Random House And Penguin Form Mutant ePub Hybrid Call it a step in the right direction, or call it what it is... two of the "Big 5" publishers grasping at straws because they're EXTREMELY late to the party. Either way, Penguin and Random House have made the decision to join forces to become, drumroll please... Penguin Random House. Pretty creative, right? Yeah, I'm
Subscribers Pay The Bills For The NYTimes 2 2 Subscribers Pay The Bills For The NYTimes When it comes to transitioning from print to digital, there's no better case study than The New York Times. Not only has the NYT flipped the traditional newspaper model, but the scales are still tipping toward the subscriptions side... which is actually not 100% good news (and not just because it means you'll hit the
UK Amazon Publishers Face 20% Tax Hike 6 2 UK Amazon Publishers Face 20% Tax Hike To quote a line in Raising Arizona, "The government do take a bite, don't she?" The Amazon tax war has been a hot-button issue in the US for years now, as states seek new revenue streams to chip away at their massive deficits. Well, the same sort of scenario is playing out across the pond.
Weekend Roundup 10/22/2012 0 4 Weekend Roundup 10/22/2012 In honor of our newly revamped blog, I'm trying something new this Monday -- what I'm calling the "DM Weekend Roundup." The DM roundup is a short and sweet recap of all the smartest, hottest, or most kickass tech news from around the web... plus any other random cool stuff I feel like including. Why
Google Books Finally OK'd for Launch... 10 Years Later 9 2 Google Books Finally OK'd for Launch... 10 Years Later Nearly a decade after Google decided to improve literacy and bring the publishing world (kicking and screaming) into the digital age, the lawsuits preventing it from doing so have been cleared out of the way. In the meantime, Amazon and the Kindle platform have become a dominant force in the publishing industry... and ePub is
Google Wallet 2.0 Is Built For Publishers 8 2 Google Wallet 2.0 Is Built For Publishers At the end of 2011, the tech world was all atwitter about the enormous potential of "micropayments," i.e. the ability for users to make seamless, one-click payments while they're doing pretty much anything... you know, like when you're using iTunes or Amazon (with one-click payments enabled). Google's version, Google Wallet, has been slow to really
Will Kindle Serials Become The New Model For E-Books? 9 3 Will Kindle Serials Become The New Model For E-Books? Much like the Kindle Singles category that was launched to modest success last year, Amazon is launching Kindle Serials to breathe new life and commercial appeal into ongoing, episodic content. According to PaidContent, Amazon is investing some pretty decent money behind the effort. The serial novel model has been gaining traction in e-pub circles for
Author Writes A Novel Live In Real Time On Google Docs 2 0 Author Writes A Novel Live In Real Time On Google Docs Want a sneak peak at Silvia Hartmann's latest novel, The Dragon Lords? And by sneak peek, I mean read the whole unedited manuscript in its entirety, unedited, as she actually writes it... live. If you do want to watch a fiction writer at work, up close and personal, this is your chance. It really doesn't
Fake Review Scandal Rocks ePub 2 1 Fake Review Scandal Rocks ePub The so-called "Sock Puppet" scandal has exposed the one of the biggest threats to the legitimacy of e-publishing -- the temptation to create fake user profiles in order to post positive reviews for your own book... or to pay others to do it for you. According to Paid Content, the problem is much bigger than
Do You Like iBooks Or The Kindle App? 9 0 Do You Like iBooks Or The Kindle App? Hey iPad and Mac users: What app are you using to read e-books? While Amazon may be trying to vie for a bigger chunk of the tablet market, Bezos and company want you to know that they haven't forgot about you iOS users. On the heels of Amazon's big announcement last week (see here), Amazon
Massive Retailers Jockey For A Slice Of The E-Publishing Space 2 0 Massive Retailers Jockey For A Slice Of The E-Publishing Space Yet another massive retailer is looking to establish a foothold in the exploding e-book publishing industry. Hint: it's the third largest retailer in the world based on revenues. UK-based mega chain Tesco announced this week that it's purchased Mobstar, a smallish e-bookseller that will give Tesco (already the biggest bookseller in the UK) a tried
How To Smartify Your Blogflow Like A Mastermind 19 0 How To Smartify Your Blogflow Like A Mastermind You already know that blogging is an awesome way to boost the inbound traffic that visits your site on a regular basis. The biggest problem for most marketers is finding good topics and then actually taking the time to write about it. Lots of people try to outsource the task, with varying degrees of short-term
The Right Way to Appify Your Marketing 0 0 The Right Way to Appify Your Marketing Since the rise of smartphones, app marketing has moved through the novelty phase, to the passé phase, to the disappointing phase. Now that the marketplace for mobile apps has matured, we're starting to see something that most marketers (even those who were bullish on apps) thought would happen. Apps all across the board are seeing
3 Steps To Get Your eBook On The Amazon Best Sellers List 4 0 3 Steps To Get Your eBook On The Amazon Best Sellers List What's the best way to sell tons of e-books? Get that sucker in front of millions of Kindle users that browse the best sellers list on a daily basis, right? But what if you book isn't a best seller? What if it's brand spanking new; what then? It seems like kind of a catch-22 doesn't
DM Labs Members: Pimp My WordPress Q&A Session Next Week! 0 2 DM Labs Members: Pimp My WordPress Q&A Session Next Week! Last week in DM Labs, we held an exciting RAW Training, during which we pulled back the curtain and showed members how we trick out sites here at Digital Marketer. In the training, we covered all the best practices, killer plug-ins, and cheap tricks we know that will give your WordPress site the biggest boost
3 Essential Tips For Content Creation Managers 2 0 3 Essential Tips For Content Creation Managers By Josh Loposer Managing a content creation team is no walk in the park. In fact, it's a responsibility that's crushed many a creative directors throughout history... Sorry to crush your dreams of kicking up your feet and watching comfortably as your team turns out gold plated success time after time. That doesn't mean it
Google Play Goes Live With In-App Subscriptions 0 0 Google Play Goes Live With In-App Subscriptions In-app payments took a big step at Google this week. Android users now have the opportunity to pay for digital services on a recurring basis... More importantly, Android developers can now build subscription upgrades into their apps using a newer HTTP-based API, which makes Android a much more attractive platform for digital marketers who want
Two Ways To Benefit From Apple's iOS Stranglehold 0 0 Two Ways To Benefit From Apple's iOS Stranglehold There's no need to waste a bunch of words talking about just what a behemoth Apple has become over the last few years... especially when I've got this big ol' infographic (below) to do the talking for me. A picture's worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. What I'm more interested in, however, is
How Streaming Killed The DVD [INFOGRAPHIC] 0 0 How Streaming Killed The DVD [INFOGRAPHIC] The DVD is a zombie. It's dead; it just doesn't know it. So, are there really enough eyes out there for all the streaming video that’s being uploaded? It’s a question that can perhaps best be answered with another question, such as, “Is it really necessary that every individual in America own hundreds of DVDs?”
