Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) reports, “Stepping up its support of self-published and independently published books, the Apple iBookstore has launched a new category called Breakout Books.”
While the iBookstore has always accepted self-published works, the new iBookstore category gives publishers and authors a new platform for marketing and promoting their books and highlights both the growing sales of self-published titles and the increasing significance of the category.
From The New York Times (@mediadecodernyt):
“Apple is helping to shape a brighter, more democratized future for book publishing,” said Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, a leading distributor of digital books.
The bulk of the titles featured in the Breakout Books promotion are distributed by Smashwords. Read all about it on Mark Coker’s (@markcoker) blogpost, “Smashwords Authors Gain Seat at the Merchandising Table with the Apple iBookstore’s Breakout Books Promotion.”
Also see our previous blogposts, “Can Ebooks Succeed Without Amazon?,” “A New Publishing Ecosystem Emerges,” and “Guy Kawasaki's New Self-Publishing Instruction Book.”
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