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arnie Grossblatt

Amazon 'Glitch' Yanks Sales Rank of Hundreds of LGBT Books - PC World - 0 views

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    Amazon claims dog ate homework and glitch caused hundreds of lesbian and gay books to lose their sales rank.
arnie Grossblatt

An open letter to Jeff Bezos - 0 views

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    Discussion of Amazon's decision to remove sales rank information from LGBT themed content.
Melissa Dahne

News: Who Controls Journals? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    As more journals shift from being run by university presses and scholarly societies to corporate entities, the goal is better management, better sales (since packages of journals are frequently sold together) and economies of scale. The fear of some involved in journal publishing is that corporate interests will limit the role of scholars in making key decisions.
Michael Pogachar

Libraries Check Out E-Sales - 0 views

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    Public libraries across the U.S. are getting into the online book-selling business, providing convenience for patrons but also raising concerns that the sales threaten to commercialize taxpayer-supported institutions founded to provide information free-of-charge.
Natalie Barnes

Updates to Amazon's Book Ranking Algorithms: The Death of 99-Cent Ebooks? An End to KDP... - 0 views

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    Another factor in the pricing of ebooks--Amazon's ranking algorithms, which may result in price increases to indie books so that they will be noticed. Indie author Edward W. Robertson is a stats junkie who's been studying the e-seller's algorithms for a while.
EPublisher Confesses

Writer dumps publisher, launches self-publishing venture, over e-book royalties - 0 views

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    The argument between the author of a best-selling memoir and his publisher over the amount of royalties he was owed from sales of the digital editions of his work, has led to the author not only leaving the publisher, but going on to set up a new publishing house for himself and calling on other writers to join him.
Colleen Carrigan

Amazon Halts Sales of Macmillan Titles - 0 views

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    OUCH! OUCH! and TRIPLE OUCH! If you need another reason to boycott Amazon.com....
Lynn King

Google Says It's Actually Quite Small - 0 views

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    antitrust claims
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