From Createspace:
We’re excited to announce Expanded Distribution is now Free. You can make your books available through more channels including: online retailers, bookstores, libraries, and academic institutions within the U.S. at no cost. Enable these distribution channels today so you can reach a wider audience and increase the discoverability of your books.
Createspace normally lists your book on the Createspace website as well as Amazon.
Nate Hoffelder is reporting on his Digital Reader blog that France is going to be lowering taxes on DRM-free ebooks:
Hardly anyone likes DRM on their content, and its various opponents respond in various ways, whether by public advocacy or by voting with their pocketbook. And then there is France, which decided to express their displeasure with a new tax law.
France has amended their tax laws with a new lower tax rate for DRM-free ebooks (or a new higher rate for DRMed ebooks, depending on how you look at it). The new law won’t go into effect until 2015, but once it does Amazon, Apple, Kobo, and all the other major ebookstores will all be penalized for selling DRMed ebooks to French customers.
Under France’s new tax laws, DRMed ebooks will be taxed at a higher rate (currently 19.6%), while DRM-free ebooks will be taxed at the lower 5.5% rate.
You can read the whole post HERE.
You should really visit Nate’s blog; it’s chock full o’ useful eBook information! You can visit it HERE.
Thirty years. It’s taken Thirty FREAKIN’ years, but Calvin and Hobbes is no available in eBook form!
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, and The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes. Books I proudly have in my physical book collection can now be read on your Kindle, iPad, Nook or tablet.
Sorry, Scientific Progress Goes “Boink” isn’t available … yet.
The weekday comic strip has been available on gocomics for awhile. These new books, though, are the first time the books have been available to eReaders.
So take a trip down memory lane and relive a childhood memory today.
The books are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple’s iTune bookstore.
As an author, you’re not expected to know everything, just what you’re writing. Not all writers know the 10-codes that LEOs use, nor are the codes something you really need to memorize if you only need a squad to acknowledge a call or report that they’re 10-7 for lunch.
Oakland Public Library, in partnership with RBdigital from Recorded Books, launches OneClickdigital, an online service that allows customers to check out eAudiobooks and eBooks, and Zinio, a digital magazine service offering multi-user access to popular publications.
Oakland Public Library (Oakland, CA) has partnered with RBdigital from Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD) to deliver two new electronic resources: Zinio for Libraries and OneClickdigital. Zinio for Libraries, awarded Best New Database of 2012 by Library Journal, is billed as the world’s largest newsstand, offering multi-user access to popular publications. OneClickdigital is an online service that allows patrons to check out eAudiobooks and eBooks, including bestsellers, Recorded Books exclusives, classics, and selections for children and young adults.
