Scribd has been busy this week. Following its survey of international reading habits, it has achieved the considerable coup of signing up the entire range of "For Dummies" titles for its ebook subscription service.
Thinking about the centenary of Dylan Thomas, which is being celebrated this year, led me also to consider where writers like to write.
Here's some good news for authors who have a series of books as Amazon is making changes to how it lists series books in the Kindle store to make it easier for customers to find the books.
Ebook subscription service Scribd has come up with the intriguing fact that the firm's German's subscribers are the fastest readers worldwide.
Kobo is aiming to give its ebook store a much needed burst of speed after linking up with content delivery network Hibernia.
Ebook subscription service Oyster has signed up a couple of interesting publishers to add to their titles on offer.
Self-publishing photo book specialist Blurb have come up with some software that claims to be capable of producing files for an ebook and printed book at the same time, a holy grail of sorts for self-publishers. The firm is also offering a distribution deal where it will print, store and sell your books through Amazon.
Writers love using one or more initials in their author name. It can perform a number of functions, such as disguising gender, adding a perceived sense of authority or differentiating a common name. What’s much less common, however, is the use of repeated initials. For example, starting at the sharp end of the alphabet, A A Milne.
Amazon has shown again that content is its real business in the ebook sector rather than selling pesky Kindle hardware and has also revealed that around a quarter of the ebooks in the Kindle store are exclusive to Amazon.
Amazon has added a useful Sales Dashboard feature to the back end of the Kindle Direct Publishing set-up so authors can now see at a glance their worldwide sales and royalties in a graphic format and supposedly in real time.
Amazon Publishing is using its promotion power to send its own books to the top of the Kindle charts before they're even published.