Kobo picks Pocket to integrate save-for-later service into new range
Kobo is the first company to integrate Pocket, the leading save-for-later service, in its new range of ebook readers and tablets.
Self-publishing Blog
Classic Pearl bucks the trend to hit top spot
A 1940s classic novel about a Chinese family in pre-communist China has soared to the top of the Kindle best sellers.
The 10 best Elmore Leonard novels
For any author to write enough good books to make a selection of their best 10 is a fantastic achievement. Elmore Leonard wrote over 40 books and they were all somewhere between good and great.
Using the Nikon Coolpix A for macro photography
The Nikon Coolpix A is one of the new category of compact cameras with a big sensor to match the picture quality of DSLRs. It's a very stylish camera, not as sleek as its rival the Ricoh GR V, as it has a slightly more boxy shape and the lens mount protrudes further, but it's nevertheless a lovely camera and perfectly pocketable.
Backlist to the future
Traditional publishers are starting to wake up to the ebook potential of their backlists and this week sees Simon & Schuster republishing Martin Cruz Smith’s 1980s’ best seller Gorky Park plus other books in the Arkady Renko series.
Supernatural sales as ebooks beat hardbacks
Orion Publishing has seen a title’s ebook beat hardcover sales for the first time with Ben Aaronovitch’s supernatural crime novel Broken Homes.
Cinderella turns down offer to go to the ball with Amazon Publishing
A self-published author has turned down an offer from Amazon Publishing to take over her latest best-selling book and has revealed the advance offered was less than she made from the book’s first month of sales.
Amazon imprints pick up grit-lit and romcom self-published successes
Amazon Publishing has signed up two successful self-published British authors covering the suspense thriller and romantic comedy genres.
Plus points as Midnight mystery tops the best sellers
Sue Ann Jaffarian’s Hide & Snoop has leapt to the top of the tree on the Kindle best-selling list.
A plus-size paralegal has knocked J K Rowling off the top of the Kindle best sellers’ list (for a short while at least). The new book in Sue Ann Jaffarian’s Odelia Grey Mysteries series has rocketed to No 1 place three weeks before the official publication date.
Wimbledon winner is back with some aces
Alienation in Suburbia: They Came From SW19 by Nigel Williams.
It’s great to see Nigel Williams’ very funny Wimbledon Trilogy being republished in print and ebook form.
Self-published is now one of the Big Five
DBW’s Power Publishing list illustrates that self-published is now an established best-selling force.
The latest power publishing report from Digital Book World shows that self-publishing is now a major commercial force in the world of ebooks.