Tag: Kindle Worlds

News & Notes — 8/03/13

News & Notes — 8/03/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: vs. “Overstock Goes After Amazon”, then “Extends Pricing War”, making this a good time… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/29/13

News & Notes – 6/29/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Barnes & Noble is getting out of the tablet business.  The company hopes to… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial” and Publishers Weekly‘s Andrew Albanese summarizes both… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/25/13

News & Notes — 5/25/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon plans to publish fanfic — and pay royalties to both the original rights… Read more »

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Amazon to publish fanfic

Amazon to publish fanfic

Amazon plans to publish fanfic — and pay royalties to both the original rights holder and the fanfic author.  The platform is called Kindle Worlds, and they’ll be kicking it off with stories from established authors like Barbara Freethy and Trish Milburn.  Only worlds for which Amazon has secured a… Read more »

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