Saturday, January 31, 2015

Amazon Takes Over Textbook Business of the University of Massachusetts

Amazon has ironed out an agreement with the University of Massachusetts to take over the schools textbook business from Follett. Starting this fall students will be able to order print books and have them delivered for free to their homes or an Amazon-staffed storefront in the campus center that's set to open in June. Each student will be [...]

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New Dual Screen e-Reader Concept

e-Readers have always employed a single screen and the companies that manufacture them have traditionally been risk adverse. A new dual screen concept has just surfaced which may very well be the future of e-readers. Fabrice Dubuy, who works in France and self-deprecatingly refers to himself as an "(almost) designer," has spent the long gap [...]

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Amazon Announces a New KDP Select Perk: Amazon Marketing Services

Authors who’ve enrolled their books in Amazon’s exclusive program KDP Select might have noticed a new feature in their dashboards, tucked in among the various clickable topics. Amazon Marketing Services allows authors to setup an ad campaign for their exclusive titles, one that is designed to put their books in little “ahem” boxes next to [...]

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PressReader Unveils New Videos on Managing Newspaper Collections

PressReader is one of the most popular digital newspaper and magazine companies in the world. They have built their business around the notion of being able to subscribe to over 4,000 publications for a low monthly fee. In order to show consumers how accessible their apps are, they have just unveiled a series of new videos that [...]

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