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. Ebooks have no more peaked than digital music or social media usage has peaked. While it is certainly true that some publishers have seen a softening of sales in 2013, that is mostly because 2012 was such a huge success in ebook terms, especially for certain titles like Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games. Sadly no titles have quite grabbed readers like those record- breaking books did, so sales have suffered.

but for earlier this Fall Amazon started a year long pilot with the University of California – Davis bookstore. UC Davis Stores has a dedicated portal page on Amazon.com (davis.amazon.com). The portal launched in mid-September and offers a selection of Amazon’s stock similar to what the bookstore would stock (in other words what a student is inclined to buy). This portal is functionally a part of Amazon (and not UC Davis Stores’s servers or stock system), and any order placed there is filled by Amazon via their network of warehouses and partners. The school collects an affiliate fee on any sale

“Readers loved the idea of a regular e-mail featuring flash sales on e-books, but we soon realized that the service would work best if it featured titles from all publishers and authors.” So, in early 2012, he and Nicholas Ciarelli, who has a background in digital media, founded BookBub, a daily deal site for e-books based in Cambridge, Mass.

Bezos: The Internet is disrupting every media industry, Charlie. You know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. Amazon is not happening to book selling; the future is happening to book selling.

Mit „BILD eBooks“ gibt es ab heute eines der größten Angebote an deutschsprachigen eBooks: Über eine Million Titel stehen auf www.bild-ebooks.de zum Download zur Verfügung. Damit erweitert BILD.de seinen Entertainment-Bereich mit „BILD Music“, „BILD Movies“ und „BILD Tickets“ jetzt auch um die Sparte Bücher.