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Amazon Publishing announces Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. For more information on Kindle Worlds visit: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1823219&highlight
NOOK® Introduces NOOK Press™:
Innovative New Publishing Platform for Authors Offers Authors Fast, Easy and Free Tools to Create, Collaborate and Publish the Highest Quality eBooks and Access to Millions of NOOK Customers. With NOOK Press™ authors can now upload a Microsoft Word file, then continue to work on the manuscript, editing it and also previewing it as an ePub file. For more on NOOK Press™ visit: https://www.nookpress.com/
Smashwords Supports EPUB Uploads With Smashwords Direct
One year ago in the 2011 annual year-in-review at the Smashwords Blog, they committed to support direct EPUB uploads to the Smashwords platform in the second half of 2012. Today they fulfilled that commitment with the launch of Smashwords Direct.
This new capability allows our authors and publishers to upload their own professionally formatted EPUB files for sale at the Smashwords store, and for distribution to the Smashwords retail distribution network.
For more see the Smashwords blog here: http://blog.smashwords.com/2012/12/smashwords-supports-epub-uploads-with.html
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Harper Collins Launches Digital Thriller Imprint
The William Morrow Imprint from Harper Collins has launched a new mystery/crime/thriller digital imprint called Witness. Witness authors will receive 25% royalties or 50% once their book has sold 10,000 copies. All royalties will be paid on a monthly basis.
Amazon is developing a cover creation tool for its Kindle Direct Publishing self-publishing platform, dubbed KDP Cover Creator. The tool is currently being tested by a limited number of KDP authors but the company expects to roll it out to all its KDP authors soon, an Amazon spokesperson told Digital Book World. For more on this story visit: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/amazon-to-launch-cover-creating-tool-for-self-published-ebooks-kdp-cover-creator/
Amazon has purchased social book review site Goodreads.com and it will come under Amazon control from the second quarter of this year. According to Amazon, Goodreads' 16m users bookmarked on average four books every second to their 'want to read list'. For more visit: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1801563&highlight=
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