I went to update the Kobo app on my iPad this morning but stopped when I saw what has changed. The main reason for the update is to cut access  to the Kobo ebookstore from within the reading app. Instead, you have to fire up a separate browser, go to their store and make the purchase outside the [...]

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We’ll be running a workshop in Auckland next month on how to use social media, especially Facebook, to market books and ebooks. Love it or hate it, social media – with Facebook and Twitter to the fore – are taking over more and more of the discussion around books. Books are a traditional word-of-mouth sale [...]

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Many companies treat their website and Facebook page as if they were completely separate, like having two independent websites. In a sense they are but there are plenty of ways to integrate Facebook activity into your own website, and vice versa. It makes sense to do this now that Facebook is so big — 670 [...]

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The Association of American Publishers released its US book sales figures for February 2011 and it looks like 2011 will be the year the trade book business has to finally confront serious declines in its core print business. Up until now, print sales have largely held up while ebook sales boomed, giving the industry the [...]

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The following article was published in the No. 1, 2011 edition of News on Bookselling, the official journal of the Australian Booksellers Association. Since it was written (mid February), another ebookstore with plans to offer its system to Aussie booksellers has launched. I’ve added a footnote to the original story.   By Martin Taylor Booksellers [...]

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