Some of the Sci-Fi Spaceships Known to Man
Here's a treat for all science fiction fans – an infographic ambitiously titled All Sci-Fi Spaceships Known to Man.
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The Fire this time: new Kindles go beyond HD, triple speed, slash weight and add Mayday help
Amazon's new Kindle Fire HDX tablets slash the weight and triple the processing power of the present top-end Fires while adding free round-the-clock technical help at the touch of a button.
Kobo to pay double Amazon royalty rate on higher-priced ebooks
Kobo is raising the minimum price for an ebook to qualify for 70% royalties from $1.99 to $2.99 and has dropped the upper range limit, in effect, doubling the royalty offered by Amazon’s Kindle on higher-priced ebooks.
Hat-trick for Smashwords with series discovery tool, Oyster deal and 250,000 landmark
Smashwords has reached the milestone of its 250,000th ebook uploaded, added Series Manager to makes series books more discoverable and is linking up with ebook subscription service Oyster.
Lulu adds book templates and publishing options
Kobo is raising the minimum price for an ebook to qualify for 70% royalties from $1.99 to $2.99 and has dropped the upper range limit, in effect, doubling the royalty offered by Amazon’s Kindle on higher-priced ebooks.
PW Select self-publishing supplement doubles up to go monthly
Self-publishing has got a big boost as leading US trade magazine Publishers Weekly has doubled the frequency of PW Select, its self-pub specialist supplement, to monthly.
First US all-digital public library opens in Texas
Public libraries are increasingly turning to ebooks and the first all-digital public library in the US has opened in Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas.
MatchBook strikes out with bundling deal
Is book bundling becoming a burning issue?
Amazon’s new Kindle MatchBook scheme doesn’t look like setting the publishing world on fire although it may well inflame bookshop owners.
If you’ve got that feeling of being alone in the woods then may your goya be with you
A great infographic, courtesy of Visual.ly and originally from blog.maptia.com, looks at untranslatable words from other cultures. I particularly like the first one in the list, waldeinsamkeit, German for the feeling of being alone in the woods, which is a great title for a novel.
Amazon flips out with better book browsing in new Paperwhite
Amazon is aiming to improve book browsing in its new version of the Kindle Paperwhite with a Page Flip function and is also building Goodreads into the device.
Self-published novels make up a third of best-seller list
One-third of the books in the New York Times top 21 ebook fiction best sellers this week (Sep 8) are self-published, with boxed-set collections of books by different authors setting a high-selling trend.