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The Best Quotes From Businessweek’s Amazon Piece
Bloomberg Businessweek‘s January 30 cover story, “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Wants to Burn the Book Business,” includes rare interviews with Larry Kirshbaum, head of Amazon Publishing’s New York-based...
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Amazon Publishing shares some sales numbers in email to agents
In an email to literary agents, Amazon Publishing VP Jeff Belle shares some sales numbers from the company’s list. “We’ve been energized by the early results across all of our imprints,” Belle writes:...
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The serious business of Kindle Serials
With Kindle Serials, Amazon hopes to reinvent a format that already exists. Jeff Bezos dragged out the obligatory Dickens reference at the LA press conference, but serial fiction had a presence online...
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Amazon Publishing takes on Europe; Kirshbaum to head U.S. unit in reorg
Amazon is expanding its original publishing efforts to Europe and is also shaking up its publishing division’s structure, Publishing VP Jeff Belle announced in a letter to literary agents Wednesday...
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Amazon Publishing promises authors faster royalty payments
Amazon Publishing said in a letter to literary agents Monday that it will start paying its authors royalties on a monthly basis, up from every three months. “In this digital age, we don’t see why...
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Amazon’s fan-fiction portal Kindle Worlds is a bust for fans, and for writers...
Amazon lets aspiring writers use characters from popular series like Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries to write stories of their own. So why isn't Kindle Worlds catching on? Amazon’s fan-fiction portal...
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