06-04-2012, 04:29 PM | #1 | |
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Amazon Publishing Acquires Avalon Books
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06-04-2012, 05:01 PM | #2 | |
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06-04-2012, 05:20 PM | #3 |
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Interesting.
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06-04-2012, 05:47 PM | #4 |
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Oh, cool. I had a hundred or so Avalon books, mostly x-lib, that I finally had to give away to make room on my bookshelves. Now I can buy 'em again, if they're priced right.
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06-04-2012, 07:11 PM | #5 |
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06-04-2012, 08:00 PM | #6 |
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The press release seems to indicate that Amazon will make these books available to Kindle only. I hope Amazon is finally going to sell ePub books as well.
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06-04-2012, 08:03 PM | #7 |
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I hope they are priced as backlist books - NOT at 11.99!
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06-04-2012, 09:01 PM | #8 |
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And I sincerely hope that you're not holding your breath whilst waiting for this... blue is a really unbecoming colour for skin...
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06-04-2012, 10:02 PM | #9 | |
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06-04-2012, 10:54 PM | #11 |
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06-04-2012, 11:11 PM | #12 |
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And the Amazon book empire grows ever larger. What say the Big 6 to that?
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06-05-2012, 03:36 AM | #13 | |
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And most of them are usually discounted from $9.99. The average (my estimate) price for Amazon Publishing ebooks are around $4-6. |
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06-05-2012, 08:08 AM | #14 |
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There was a report last year that pegged their averages at $9.92 for pbooks and $6.91 for ebooks.
http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/02/41...on-publishing/ |
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Can someone just let me know if the sky is falling or not? The dearth of Chicken Littles responding to this news doesn't give me enough data to decide.
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