eBook Analytics

The major new players in e-book publishing—Amazon, Apple and Google—can easily track how far readers are getting in eBooks, how long they spend reading them and which search terms they use to find books.

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Product Categories Purchased Online [CHART]

Online consumers spent 33% to 45% of their monthly beauty and personal care budgets online, according to a March 2012 survey of online buyers in North America conducted by A.T. Kearney. Shoppers are using both etailers and brick-and-mortar stores to purchase these types of consumer packaged goods, meaning that brands need to step up multichannel…

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Harry Potter eBooks Free For Kindle Prime Subscribers

Amazon has just begun to offer free eBooks from the Harry Potter series through it’s Kindle Lending Library that is available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime members pay $79 a year for free shipping, free access to many of Amazon’s streaming video titles, and free eBook checkouts from the company’s lending library program. Found…

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eBooks & Self-Publishing

Publishers Lorena Jones (Chronicle Books) and Kevin Hunsanger (Green Apple Books) and author Larry Jacobson discuss how the eBook and self-publishing revolution are transforming the publishing industry and even the very notion of the book.

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