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Diesel eBook Store forms partnership with Macmillan no comments
The Diesel eBook Store has formed a direct partnership with Macmillan that will enable the ebook merchant to sell the publisher’s titles directly through
its online store, rather than use third-party distributers for encryption and fulfillment as it has done in the past.
From the press release:
Under the terms of the agreement, Diesel will store the digital titles of Macmillan on its own servers and provide fulfillment and encryption on orders through Adobe Content Server 4 (ACS4). A new proprietary PubDesk interface, through which the publisher can access its inventory, run reports and modify its metadata, has been created and will launch shortly.
"We are so thrilled to be working with the prestigious publisher Macmillan directly since they represent many top-notch authors that our customers love to read – authors such as Lora Leigh, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lisa Kleypas, Robert Jordan, Orson Scott Card, Robert A. Heinlein and Jonathan Franzen, just to name a few.”
The Diesel eBook Store launched its new eBook retailing platform in December 2010 and is unique in the marketplace for their expanded categories and their ability to host customer created bundles. Their new site also boosts a suite of new features such as the “Deal of the Day”, social networking , video integration, access to over two million free eBooks via partnerships with Google and Smashwords and a new and improved search engine.
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Diesel eBook Store gets an upgrade no comments
Diesel has revamped its eBook Store and it definitely 
looks better than the last time I visited. Besides a better look and feel, there are more upgrades under the hood:
- Improved search, including a much better Advanced Search page.
- Expanded inventory: Diesel now claims to offer more than 2.4 million titles (includes 2 million Google public domain titles).
- User reviews and ratings with social networking capability.
- Publishers can now easily upload book trailer videos.
- Deal of the Day: Every day a specially priced ebook featured on the Diesel homepage.
- Expanded free ebook section.
- Bundles: Customers can now build their own ebook bundles around specific themes they create.
Diesel has a reward program that offers on average 3.5 cents for every $1.00 spent. Of course this is probably not going to fly with publishers using the agency model, but Diesel says that it does apply to over 400,000 titles. There is also a $0.50 credit for every approved ebook review customers write.
Most titles are available in Adobe ePub, with many also in PDF and other formats, including Mobi and Microsoft Reader.
“We have a lot of customers that are eReader agnostic. They all choose to read content differently. They’ve told us they don’t want to be shackled to any one specific reading device. This feedback has led to a robust, state of the art eBook website that will also serve as a flexible foundation upon which we’ll be rolling out many new applications and services all designed to facilitate the downloading of digital content,” said L. Scott Redford, founder and president of Diesel.
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Harlequin Launches Carina Press no comments
Harlequin has officially launched its Carina Press imprint. Carina Press is a digital-first publishing house selling its books directly to consumers and
through third party resellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Audible is also producing unabridged versions of many of the Carina Press titles.
From the press release:
Carina Press will begin by publishing 37 books in its first month—approximately 10 books a week—across a broad range of fiction with an emphasis on romance and its subgenres, including science fiction, fantasy, erotica, gay/lesbian, mystery, suspense and thriller. Carina Press ebooks vary in price from $2.99 to $6.99 depending on the length of the work, which can range from 20,000 to more than 100,000 words.
Carina Press ebooks are available on the Carina Press website (www.carinapress.com) and through third-party retailers such as Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Carina Press ebooks are published in the ePUB format and can be read on a variety of devices, including computer, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, nook, Kobo, BlackBerry and mobile phone. Carina Press does not utilize digital rights management so readers are able to share stories between devices. Carina Press also offers digital review galleys through NetGalley.
Currently Carina Press is offering a 20% off sale to promote the launch. Carina’s ebooks are unencumbered with DRM and are available in either EPUB or PDF formats.
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eBooks.com Discount Codes no comments
eBooks.comhas released some promotional discount codes that are good over the next couple of months. To use just enter the code in the Payment Details page during check out.
Coupon offers:
- Spring Coupon – SPRING$PROMOcp $15 off on $100 or more purchase. Valid until June 15, 2010
- Admin Professionals Coupon – admintreat15cp 15% off on eBooks purchase. Valid until April 30, 2010
- Mother’s Day Coupon – MOTHER$TREATcp $8 off on $50 or more purchase. Valid May 1-10, 2010
- May Coupon- SAVE$5MAYDAYcp $5 off on $50 or more purchase. Valid May 1-31, 2010
- National Share a Story Coupon – SHARESTORY15cp 15% off on eBooks purchase on the following category: Biography/Autography and Children’s & Young Adult Fiction. Valid May 1-31, 2010
- Adult Learners’ Week Coupon – ADULTLEARNERcp Adult Learners’ Week encourages thousands of adults, whatever their age and background, to give learning a go. Save $10 on purchase over $75. Valid May 15-21, 2010.
Category Coupon – categorysalecp
Use the coupon code 20% discount on ebooks in any of these categories:
Health and Fitness
Humor
Pets
Psychology and Psychiatry
Science
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On Book Discoverability no comments
Just read an interesting article by Cecilia Tan who is the founder of Circlet Press. Tan talks about her company’s transition from pbooks to ebooks and about getting new books discovered by readers, and how the process and methods are changing. Well worth reading.
What she says about piracy reminds me of what I was just reading in Cory Doctorow’s introduction to his book Little Brother. Not that I have any piratical tendencies myself mind you, nor do I encourage them in others; but these are interesting ideas. Chris Anderson expresses similar thoughts in his books.
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Summer Will Bring Six New Amazon Encore Titles no comments
Amazon announced this morning that it will be releasing six new books this summer through its imprint AmazonEncore.
From the press release:
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that AmazonEncore, Amazon’s publishing imprint, will be introducing six new books this summer: "Elizabeth Street" by Laurie Fabiano; "Herb ‘n’ Lorna" by Eric Kraft; "Double Bound" by Nick Nolan; "The Berry Bible" by Janie Hibler; "A King of Infinite Space" by Tyler Dilts; and "The Last Block in Harlem" by Christopher Herz. AmazonEncore also published a previously unannounced spring title this week: "How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying" by Lyla Blake Ward. The AmazonEncore editions of these forthcoming novels will be available in print format at www.amazon.com and as wireless digital downloads in less than 60 seconds from the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). For more information on AmazonEncore and upcoming titles, visit www.amazon.com/encore.
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Kobo Celebrating the End of Pre-Agency Days no comments
The agency ebook pricing pricing model should start to take effect at midnight tonight. Ebooks of three large publishers will be affected from midnight ET tonight and prices of titles from two more publishers are due to change on Saturday, April 3rd.
Kobobooks.comis having a “Party Like It’s $9.99” pre-agency party and says that yesterday was their best sales day ever. Kobo recommends purchasing as many ebooks as you can before the new pricing model goes into effect, and to that end they are offering a $2 off coupon good for as many ebooks as you like. The coupon code is 2party.
Kobo also has a demo video of the Kobo eReader up on YouTube. The new ereader is due out in the early part of May and Kobo announced yesterday that they were beginning to take pre-orders.
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Indie Book Publisher Signs Deal With Amazon 1 comment
Author Solutions today announced that it has entered an agreement with Amazon to publish all new black-and-white AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford Publishing and Xlibris titles for the Kindle ereader.
A default price of $9.99 will be set for every ASI title made available through the Kindle, but each author will have the opportunity to set his or her own price. E-book distribution through the Kindle will be included as a free service for all new black-and-white ASI titles.
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Read an E-Book Week 1 comment
This is Read an E-Book Week and there are a number of sales and free books to help you celebrate. Smashwords has a special section for the event and you can also visit the Official Read an E-Book Week page for a listing of other participating ebook stores and authors offering specials.
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New York Times to Offer Stand-Alone Book Review Section for eReaders no comments
The New York Times currently will cost you $13.99 per month to subscribe on your Kindle, Sony or Barnes & Noble compatible ereader. The NYT apparently plans to break out its Book Review section and make it available as a separate product at an undisclosed price.
PoynterOnline reports that Times director of marketing James Dunn referred to the plan during an interview at the Digital Publishing Alliance. The Sony Reader Store will get the Book Section first in a few weeks, followed by the Kindle store and Barnes & Noble.
