Sunday, June 19, 2011

As Bookshops close, Amazon clogs with spam

519 sacked at Angus & Robertson

Books






Angus & Robertson has axed 519 workers in the latest wave of job cuts to hit a retail sector battered by consumer apathy and high debt.
Business | Ben Butler | Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EST 2011


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Saturday, June 4, 2011

More Aussie Book Shops to Close

I gather even the Australian Tax Office has predicted the closure of many bookshops over the next financial year. Certainly retail analysts would not hold out any hope for existing bookshops to remain profitable.


Angus and Robertson Chain Stores
All Angus and Robertson bookshops owned by REDGroup Retail under administration are expected to close in the next month.

Book stores will close if no buyers

Borders bookstore. ADMINISTRATORS for the troubled book retailers Borders and Angus & Robertson have warned both chains may close if buyers can't be found.
No new stock is being accepted at any A&R company stores and "If we are unable to find a suitable buyer, the Angus & Robertson and Borders stores will be closed," said the administrator, John Melluish.
"Finding a buyer within a couple of months may be difficult with the overall retail industry stagnant as consumers hold off spending or increase their online shopping. The book trade has been among the most affected by the rise of internet shopping, with comparable products often found more cheaply on overseas websites". Read more
Angus and Robertson Franchised Stores
Since Head Office staff at REDGroup are also being laid off, the Chain Buying channel will cease and local franchises of A&R will be unable to complete with Dymocks monthly special prices on new stock.
Franchisees (will) exercise their right to terminate as a result of Angus & Robertson's "continued breach of the franchise agreement"..."This includes Angus & Robertson's failure to provide the services and benefits it is obliged to provide pursuant to the franchise agreement," she said, commenting as spokeswoman for the independents. Read more: 
It would make some sense for the breakaway group of 25 Angus & Robertson franchised stores to consider joining the Dymocks chain instead, but franchise fees for that change will be costly, and finance difficult to find, since bookselling has become such a precarious business.
  • Some of these stores may continue to operate under another name. 
  • Stores operating inside shopping centres with high overheads would be most likely to close down.
Dymocks Store Closures
  • At least one high-street Dymocks store is to close soon because the lease on the premises could not be renewed. 
  • Any Dymocks stores in expensive shopping centre sites could also be at risk of closure. 
The reasons for store closure are many but include
  • The downturn in Australian retail spending and the flow on effect to store income and profitability
  • Drying up of in-store special orders as consumers order for themselves on the internet instead
  • ebook sales lowering the turnover of printed books
  • travellers unwilling to purchase heavy books due to weight considerations
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Battle of the eBook Stores



Amazon eBook Sales Soar to $5 Billion Dollars in 2011 
It is no secret that the Amazon eBook store is the leading store on the internet! They currently have 4 authors who have toppled over 1 million ebooks sold and their business continues to do well. So well in fact that Caris & Co. have reported at an investors meeting that Amazon will see $5.42 billion in Kindle-generated revenue in 2011, and Caris analyst Sandeep Aggarwal predicts that figure will climb to at least $7.96 billion in 2012.
The revenue system Amazon has employed comes from a large wellspring of content totaling around 945,000 eBooks. This is a tremendous number and is increasing drastically on a month to month basis. In April 2011 almost 47,000 new eBooks were added to the system.
Amazon’s eBook catalog is not only publisher added entries but also incorporates user generated content via their independent submission program. The Amazon Digital Text Platform continues to be a highly successful revenue sharing system where authors can earn near 75% commission on the books sold.
In Aggarwal’s view, as the Kindle ecosystem expands, Kindle device users will not only continue buying more eBooks but also subscriptions, accessories, hardware warranties, and eventually use Kindle’s wireless and computing capabilities for other data and content consumption (e.g. pictures, music, videos, email, etc.).
Digital Comics Offerings Growing for Nook
While the iPad has been the most-talked about digital platform for comics, Barnes & Noble has recently expanded their comics offerings on their Nook eReader, and done so in a fairly unconventional way. While previous efforts to place comics on eReader platforms focused on converting the comics into the Kindle’s proprietary e-book format or into the open source ePub format favored by the rest of the commercial eReader devices, the Nook is now offering comics as apps. 

Barnes & Noble rolls out periodical support for Android tablets

Yesterday Barnes & Noble announced that a new version of the Nook for Android application was released with support for magazines and newspapers on Android tablets. This update works with 7 inch and larger tablets running Android 2.1 and higher and does not work on Android smartphones.
iPad owners already have support for magazines in the Nook and it is good to see support for Android tablet roll out as well.Barnes & Noble has more than 140 magazine and newspaper brands for Android tablet owners to choose from. The interactive Nook magazine experience, with ArticleView technology, was previously only available to Nook Color owners.

Using this capability you can view just the article’s text to make magazine reading an enjoyable and easy experience on a digital device. The Nook for iPad application does not yet support this ArticleView technology. 

What Separates The Kindle eBook Store From Their Competitors?

Almost any file can be converted to a Kindle-readable file, unlike other eReaders. What is really important is how available content is to you.With the Kindle eBook store you can download digital content on a Kindle, a Mac, a Windows Phone 7 device, a PC, any iOS powered device, any Android powered system and much more. The iBooks app is for iOS systems only, the Nook app is user-friendless, and the Amazon Kindle eBook app was far and away the easiest and the one with the most features.
The Kindle Store claims 850,000 books, the Nook 2,000,000, and the iStore a low of 200,000. The Nook has tons of books that were scanned in, and are almost totally unreadable. Besides, Nook has tons of free titles which are titles out of copyright that Kindle doesn’t count, but also has access to. And the Kindle Store experience is hands-down better, easier to use, and has tons of user driven extras. 

Digital sales could be 15% of total next year - Hudson


E-book sales could exceed 8% of trade publishers' sales in 2011, and could reach 15% next year, Random House UK's deputy chairman Ian Hudson told delegates at the World e-Reading Congress this morning (10th May).
Hudson also rejected headlines about the death of the app or enhanced e-book, arguing publishers needed to explore "the opportunities [rather] than sit back only to be flattened by the changes sweeping the industry".
He revealed that Random House's e-book sales in 2011 were outstripping 2010's by a factor of 10, but that growth wasn't uniform, with e-book sales of Kate Atkinson's Started Early, Took my Dog and Katie Fforde's A Perfect Proposal "a very creditable 9% and 10% respectively of total sales", while Jo Nesbo's The Leopard has seen e-books account for 35% of its overall sales.

Shift to digital will hit revenue, says Barnsley

Publishers are unlikely to be able to replace the revenues lost in the shift from print to e-books unless they can significantly grow volume sales, according to HarperCollins c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley.
In a keynote address this morning (10th May) to open a new conference, the World e-Reading Congress, held in London, Barnsley said she put the 7% drop in the retail value of paperback fiction so far this year "almost entirely" down to the sale of e-books, despite her belief that combined volume sales of print and e-books had probably increased.

"The signs are that consumers expect e-books to be priced considerably lower than physical books. There's no easier way to drive an e-book up the charts than by massive price reductions," she said. Whereas in a bricks and mortar environment other factors, like the look and feel of books and recommendations from booksellers, can influence choice, most of these factors are stripped away in an online environment, Barnsley argued. "So, not surprisingly, brand and price become the deciding factors."
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Big Three Publishers to take on Amazon with Bookish.com website

Amazon to get multinational competition for ebook sales


Consumer frustrations with ebooks are trumpeted by publishers as a reason to launch their own bookish.com website to sell directly to ebook consumers. 

“There’s a frustration with book consumers that there’s no one-stop shopping when it comes to information about books and authors,” said Carolyn Reidy, the president and chief executive of Simon & Schuster. “We need to try to recreate the discovery of new books that currently happens in the physical environment, but which we don’t believe is currently happening online.”

As bookstore chains like Borders have liquidated many stores, pressure grows on publishers to depend less on brick-and-mortar retail outlets to promote their books. But few have found easy and effective ways to communicate directly with readers, who are already confounded by too many choices in the book marketplace.
Backed by Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster (three of the major publishers who have been fighting with Amazon over its e-book pricing structure), the project is also getting support from AOL’s Huffington Post 
Typically Amazon and Barnes & Noble only sell U.S. ebooks on their websites, preventing world-wide customers from using Amazon.com or BN.com to buy locally published books. 


Australian ebook site Booki.sh
However for Australian ebooks, a similarly named website has already been launched: is this already doomed?
Booki.sh is both a bookselling platform, designed to connect publishers with independent booksellers, and a personal library application. If you buy a book from ebooks.readings.com.au (and soon, our other affiliated retailers), it will appear immediately in your library. 
Booki.sh books can be read on Macs, PCs, iPhones, iPads, the Kindle3, the latest Blackberry phones – in fact, on any device with a modern web browser. There’s nothing to install.
Readers can go from following a link on a webpage to buying a book to reading it in seconds. On most devices, you can read books whether you’re online or offline – check our compatibility guide for more.
Sign up for a Booki.sh account or start shopping with Readings Ebooks right away.                   
However I have encountered problems with Booki.sh.com not rendering ebook pages correctly in Google Chrome browser, so more work needs to be done to make the Aussie site entirely suitable.

Amazon has countered German criticism by launching a German ebook website. 
Now all you Germans can enjoy ebooks in German on your Kindle ereaders:
The other day, Amazon Germany announced the launch of theirGerman ebook service, in which they have launched a whole new range of German language ebooks on their German Kindle ebook store.
This is great news for all German readers, as it means as Amazon’s press release puts it:
More than 650,000 titles, 71 of 100 Spiegel bestsellers, and over 25,000 German-language titles with thousands of German classics downloadable for free only on Kindle.
Concurrently with this launch, Amazon also announced the launch of their Buy Once, read Everywhere Kindle Apps for the most popular devices, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices, in a German language version.
However Amazon.com cannot sell music or movie downloads to international customers either. How about it publishers, make the bookish site more comprehensive?
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E-Ink Readers going cheap due to imminent Amazon Tablet launch

Though 6 million ereaders were sold in 2010, experts predict it is all downhill from here for these devices, which will be edged out by the growing number of increasingly affordable tablets on the market.  By 2015, twice as many people will own tablets as do ereaders


Amazon has rocked the e-reader market with news leaking of up to 800,000 Android tablets being prepared for a U.S. Spring launch, showing that Amazon is switching priorities from e-ink to tablet e-readers. It can be no coincidence that Apple Tablet sales now exceed Amazon Kindle Sales.


Coincidentally the Kobo reader is being discounted in the U.S. and in Australia, no doubt due to the lowering of the Kindle price to US114 (with a line of advertising). The Kobo is being advertised at $99 at Best Buy in the USA. 


And last month, Barnes & Noble released an update to the Nook Color that pushed it more in the direction of tablets, adding its own app store with games such as Angry Birds, a native email app and a Nook Friends social network.


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So to read this new high technology ebook we need a tablet, not an ebook ereader. Tablet-enabled ebooks look exciting and very 'gee whiz'. 
"Tablets are far more powerful machines that not only offer the Kindle and Nook experience through apps, but include a wide range of other features within a similarly portable device."
“It’s between [ereaders] and tablet PCs, led by the advancing charge of the iPad.
"It’s a fight that ereaders will not win,” said a report from Forrester. “The reason is simple: Tablet PCs like the iPad are a new computing form factor -- a portable, comfortable, personal media and information device with the power to run whatever app developers can and will throw at it.” 
Fun and good old entertainment power the rush to tablets and away from e-ink readers. 

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Dymocks releases Android App for Australian ebook market


      Dymocks Android App

      The app is free to download and can be found in the Android Marketplace

      The Dymocks ebook application for Android enables you to search, browse, buy, and read more than 200,000 ebooks from Dymocks Online, including the latest Australian and international bestsellers. Dymocks Booklovers can earn reward points for every ebook purchase.

      The Dymocks ebook application for Android enables you to:
      • Search, browse, buy, and read more than 200,000 EPUB and PDF ebooks, protected by Adobe Digital Rights Management, including the latest Australian and international bestsellers
      • Store all your purchases in one handy bookshelf on your Android device
      • Access and read any EPUB and PDF ebooks you have bought from Dymocks.com.au
      • Earn Booklover Rewards Points with every purchase
      • Pay using all major credit cards, Dymocks gift vouchers, Booklover Rewards Points, and Acer eGift vouchers
      This Dymocks page also has an excellent overview of the whole process of ebook formats, reader software, setup and transferring between devices.

      Highlights:

      During installation, you will be prompted to setup an Adobe ID. Setting up an Adobe ID will allow you to transfer your eBooks to an eReader or to another computer.
      • DOWNLOADING Once you have purchased an eBook, you will be sent a download link via email, which will take you to the login page for your Dymocks Bookshelf. Once you have logged in, select 'Download eBook' and follow the prompts to download.
      Your download should automatically start in Adobe Digital Editions. If the download does not start automatically, save the .acsm file from the download link and double click to open in Digital Editions, which will start the eBook download.
      • TRANSFERRING TO AN EREADER First, connect your eReader to your computer. If you have not done so already, you will be prompted to authorize your eReader with your Adobe ID.
      Once authorised, your eReader will show as a new bookshelf in the Library view (click on 'Go to library view' in the top left corner). You can then drag items from any other bookshelf to your eReaders' bookshelf.
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