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Apple & Audible Release Six Public Domain Audiobooks for Free
Apple kicked off a new ebook marketing push yesterday with a new affiliate toolbox, and as part of that marketing effort it has also released six audiobooks in partnership with Audible. The books are...
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How to be a Better Podcast Guest
Virtually every marketing expert agrees that if you want to get your message out there in 2018, podcasts are the way to go. We're told we need to launch our own podcasts, or at the very least be...
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DC Comics Now Available in Kindle Unlimited, Prime Reading, and Comixology...
The Warner Brothers-owned comic book publisher DC is jumping in to the subscription market with both feet. DC announced today that they will be distributing titles to Kindle Unlimited, Prime Reading,...
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You Can Now Have Alexa Play a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Audiobook
Around this time last year I read about a startup called Select a Story that was developing interactive fiction stories for smart speakers like Alexa and Google Home. Interactive fiction is a thriving...
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Amazon is Still Selling Pirated POD Textbooks
Over the past three years I have reported no fewer than four times about Amazon's ongoing problem with counterfeit and pirated books in its POD service, Createspace. Here is report number five (and...
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Pearson Sells Off Its K-12 US Textbook Division for $250 Million
Pearson announced on Monday that they had agreed to sell its US K-12 textbook business to Nexus Capital Management for $250 million. Nexus will pay an initial $25 million and a further $225 million in...
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Seven Places to Listen to Free Audiobooks
The internet is overflowing with nearly as many free audiobooks as ebooks. There are dozens if not hundreds of sites with free audiobooks, and I have pulled together a short list of seven sites where...
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Marvel Comics Now Available via OverDrive Marketplace
Overdrive announced on Monday that it had expanded the availability of its comics selection. With Avengers: Endgame hitting theaters in a few weeks and Black Panther & Into the Spider-Verse...
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Bookbub Branches Out, Now Offers Audiobook Deals in Partnership with Findaway
Bookbub has launched a new deals service to sell publisher audiobooks. On Tuesday they announced they had partnered with Findaway to launch Chirp, a site where you can buy discounted audiobooks. The...
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What is the Appeal of Audiobooks?
Last week's launch of Bookbub's new audiobook deals site, Chirp, inspired me to give audiobooks another try. I love deals (who doesn't) and I wanted to give the new service a careful test so I could...
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B&N Press Now Offers eBook Coupon Codes
B&N Press continues to add features, lending credence to rumors about an impending sale of the Nook division. I just got an email from B&N, informing me that B&N Press now offered users...
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Audible Settles Several More Class Action Lawsuits
A little over two years ago Audible was hit with several class action lawsuits that alleged that the Amazon subsidiary had engaged in bait-and-switch tactics and false advertising and violated...
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Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip...
When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice. Google has slowly been improving...
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Findaway Launches Wonderbook, a Hybrid Print-Digital Audiobook Player
Cleveland-based Findaway gets most of its attention on this blog for its audiobook distribution (as well as services like Chirp) but in the library market it is better known for Playaway, a pre-loaded...
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Couple Accused of Stealing $10k in Textbooks from College Bookstore
A pair of thieves have been arrested on the charge of stealing $10,000 worth of textbooks from Fayetteville Technical Community College, which is located in North Carolina. Brandy Marie Yarbrough is...
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Pokemon Manga Titles Now Available Through OverDrive
Overdrive announced on Tuesday that Pokemon digital graphic novels are now available for libraries to purchase through Overdrive. Patrons and students of participating public libraries and schools can...
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Audible Renames Audible Romance Package as “Audible Escape”
Audible launched its Netflix-style subscription service in late 2017, the focus was strictly on romance audiobooks. Now it is beginning to look like Audible will be expanding the program to include...
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POD Giveth, and POD Taketh Away (Piracy)
About four years back I uncovered a massive textbook piracy operation running unchecked in Createspace. Enterprising scammers were stealing dozens of digital textbooks, then pirating them in...
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Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Get One Year of Audible for $119, and Add an...
Amazon has a deal right on a one-year Audible subscription, and it's only available to Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime subscribers who do not currently have an Audible subscription can pay for one...
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Audible Launches Fix for SF, Fantasy Audiobooks
I have probably told you this once or twice, but one reason I don't listen to audiobooks is the authors I like to read often use made up names that are almost unrecognizable when spoken aloud. This is...
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