Category Archives: Amazon

The Two Towers: Apple iBooks Author EULA vs Amazon KDP Select

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

Before the announcement on January 19, the hope was that Apple’s iBooks Author program would somehow kick Amazon where it hurts. Assuming that anyone can find a location that actually causes Amazon any monetary angst, that is – hunting expeditions … Continue reading →

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Brilliance Audio, Amazon, and the Great Un-downloading

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Marlene Harris | 3 Comments

On January 4, OverDrive sent an email to all of its libraries with a bombshell announcement, (quoted here from Infodocket) “Effective January 31, 2012, as instructed by the publisher, BrillianceAudio will suspend the availability of all download audiobook titles for library purchase … Continue reading →

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Amazon and the library redux

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of commentary in the library world about Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library. Most of the the library and ebook pundits go over the nitty-gritty details of the Kindle Lending Library, compare the extremely restrictive … Continue reading →

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Amazon wants to be your library

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Marlene Harris | 2 Comments

We’ve all read the news by now. Amazon has gone into the library business. And as the Baltimore Sun described it on November 3, this is bad news for libraries. Amazon’s announcement on November 3 of the Kindle Owner’s Lending … Continue reading →

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Amazoogle Affiliates

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

Not too long ago, a friend asked whether I was planning to include the “buy from Amazon” link in my blog posts. I had recommended several books that he wanted to buy, and he thought I should get some credit, … Continue reading →

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The hits to the book just keep on coming

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

There  have been a lot of announcements this week that have made an awful lot of folks in an awful lot of places sound like Chicken Little announcing that, “the sky is falling, the sky is falling!” In Publisher’s Weekly, … Continue reading →

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Snowball careening downhill–look out below!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Marlene Harris | Comments Off

In the April 27 Industry News from Publisher’s Weekly, Amazon reported that sales in their ebook division jumped 63% in the first quarter of 2011.  That was pretty much their good news.   Their bad news, underlaying a certain amount of spin, was that even … Continue reading →

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