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The girls on the train — and the boys — are listening to audiobook erotica

By Roger Packer

The girls on the train — and the boys — are listening to audiobook erotica

The next time you’re travelling to work on the train take a look around your fellow passengers — if they are listening on headphones there’s a good chance they’re listening to an erotica audiobook. Read more...

February 13, 2018 Filed Under: Blog

Two years on, Scribd returns to ‘unlimited’ ebook subscription service but avid readers may still get capped

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Two years on, Scribd returns to ‘unlimited’ ebook subscription service but avid readers may still get capped

Ebook subscription service Scribd has gone back to ‘unlimited’ access to ebooks and audiobooks for subscribers two years after ditching its original unlimited deal and capping members at three ebooks a month plus one audiobook. Read more...

February 7, 2018 Filed Under: Blog

Switch to suspense pays off again as Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer snaps up two new Teresa Driscoll thrillers

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Switch to suspense pays off again as Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer snaps up two new Teresa Driscoll thrillers

Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer imprint has picked up two new titles from Teresa Driscoll, the writer of the smash hit psychological thriller I Am Watching You. Read more...

January 29, 2018 Filed Under: Blog

Romance titles pick up the top prizes in KDP Pen to Publish self-publishing contest

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Romance titles pick up the top prizes in KDP Pen to Publish self-publishing contest

Two romance titles have won the first Kindle Direct Publishing Pen to Publish self-publishing contest in India which offered a prize of one million rupees for each winning author. Read more...

January 29, 2018 Filed Under: Blog

Kobo and Walmart check out with ebook supermarket deal

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Kobo and Walmart check out with ebook supermarket deal

Kobo has signed a deal with Walmart to set up an ebook and audiobook service for the US supermarket giant that will also see Kobo’e e-reading devices sold in Walmart stores and online. Read more...

January 29, 2018 Filed Under: Blog

Barnes & Noble slings its Nook with name change for self-publishing service

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Barnes & Noble slings its Nook with name change for self-publishing service

Barnes & Noble has integrated its self-publishing operation into a single platform that can publish ebooks or print books and it has changed the name from Nook Press to Barnes & Noble Press. Read more...

January 26, 2018 Filed Under: Blog

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Kindle Unlimited March 2018 KENP rate edges down to $0.0045

The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for March 2018 showed a small fall to $0.0045 from $0.0046 in Feberuary while the KDP Select Global fund hit a new high of $21 million, $1 million up from February but only marginally above January’s $20.9 million. Read more...

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