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Marwa Rakha’s free e-publishing does not censor and does not have any guidelines for manuscript acceptance whatsoever. Rakha says that “if you think you are a writer, if you think you want people to hear your voice, if you do not want to be at the mercy of a publisher who will make you pay, will not print the number of copies he promised, will not distribute the book properly, and will not market the book or author, then… you have a home with me.

The eGen Platform The eGen platform is the only technology to automatically generate large volumes of high-quality eBook-ready content at a dramatically reduced cost. This offers publishers a truly flexible solution for distributing their content to eReaders including the Amazon Kindle, SONY Reader, Apple iPhone, and a variety of new devices, such as Barnes & Noble’s Nook. Convert your content assets for a multitude of eReaders with eGen and benefit from:

O’Reilly Media and Microsoft Announce Plans to Expand Microsoft Press: O’Reilly to Distribute Microsoft Press Titles and Launch New Ebook Initiatives O’Reilly Media, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a joint arrangement to support and expand Microsoft Press from production through distribution, co-publishing and content development, marketing and management. Through this strategic relationship, on November 30, O’Reilly will become the distributor of Microsoft Press titles in North America with a global roll out in a phased approach.

New Dan Brown novel tops 2 million mark - Yahoo! Finance Doubleday announced Tuesday that hardcover, audio and e-book sales for “The Lost Symbol” topped 2 million copies for its first week of release in the United States, Britain and Canada. The total is “well over” 2 million for English-language editions worldwide, according to Doubleday spokeswoman Suzanne Herz, who declined to offer a specific number. Herz did say that around 5 percent, or 100,000 copies, of “The Lost Symbol” were sold as e-books.

Kindle Nation Daily: Kindle edition of The Lost Symbol outselling Amazon hardcovers! As of 10:30 a.m. EDT today, September 15, the Kindle edition is ahead of the hardcover edition in Amazon’s own hourly-updated sales rankings. Может быть, это и не надолго. И, конечно, это только относительные данные продаж самого Amazon. Но факт исключительно примечательный.

University of Michigan Press to go digital | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year — currently in book form — to be released only in digital editions. Readers will still be able to use print-on-demand systems to produce versions that can be held in their hands, but the press will consider the digital monograph the norm.