Here’s the story I wrote for this week’s National Business Review, a round up of the interesting times we’re living in and my pick of the winners and losers — so far.
When Apple launched its long-rumoured iPad tablet computer late last month, it fired a major salvo in the battle for control of media [...]

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Just a day after opening its Kindle store to non-US publishers, Amazon has responded to emerging competitive pressures and cut its slice of Kindle sales income from 70% to 30%, meaning publishers and authors using its self-service Digital Text Platform will now get the lion’s share of the sale.
There are hooks. The old 30% royalty [...]

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Until this week, you needed a US business address to get your ebooks into Amazon’s Kindle store via their self-service Digital Text Platform (DTP). They’ve now extended this to international publishers and authors for books published in English, French and German.
It’s aimed at the small publisher and self-publisher market with fairly minimal requirements. Here’s a [...]

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