Some
pricing on digital books is in a range of sizes rather than having a different price for every different size, but that only helps a bit.
But, if they would develop the screens that should be available on competing devices within 3 years, they would continue have THE
hold on the digital book marketplace.
The new vote could feasibility eliminate the
VAT on digital books and put them on par with the ones found in bookstores.
The full results will be presented at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo in January 2015 and published as a series of blog
posts on the Digital Book World website, offering free analysis and commentary on a range of subjects captured by the data.
Briefly Noted Reduced VAT
rate on Digital Books under Scrutiny by the Commission — Chartered Accountants Ireland
Well, not only do the stores make money from selling the tangible hardware devices but Kobo cuts them in for a unknown percentage
on digital book sales.
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Well, the company is said to be
working on a digital book library that will be not too different from that of what Netflix is offering with their e-book subscription service.
I spoke with Kevin Sayar, Senior Vice President of Workflow Solutions, and we discussed what the acquisition means and what Proquest is
doing on the digital book front.
The Commission has sent letters of «formal notice» to France and Luxembourg after they reduced rates
on digital books as of 1st January 2012, thereby infringing EU law.
And Hugh Howey, Data Guy and their Author Earnings site are definitely on her radar, as witnessed by her repeated discussion of
same on the Digital Book World site.
Perhaps the best description of Amazon's
impact on digital books is Oscar Wilde's comment about people who «know the price of everything but the value of nothing.»
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It reminded me of an essay I read in Wired a couple of weeks ago that has generated a lot of
comments on the Digital Book World group on LinkedIn.
Germany and France prohibit the kind of deep
discounts on digital books relative to print that have lifted e-book sales in English - language markets.
You could call this Barnes & Noble's take
on the digital book club, and it will be interesting to see users» response to it.
The president of Bolivia Evo Morales has signed a new law today that removes the 16 % tax
levied on digital book and physical book sales.
I want to know what he is doing to increase the royalty rate given to authors,
especially on digital books, whether the author is just breaking in or has been around for years.
On the review side, GalleyCat
ruminates on digital book review sites, i.e., sites devoted to reviewing eBooks, and the possibility of an IMDB for books.
Greg Bateman, an
expert on the digital book world, columnist at PublishNews and founder of Hondana, a «digital books» service provider based in São Paulo, told me yesterday that his company is converting / producing between 200 and 300 titles a week during these last months of the year.
An interview with Michael J.
Sullivan on Digital Book World might give you some clue what hybrid authors can do to prosper.