Breaking News: Amazon to Acquire Goodreads

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TGIF, WG2E-Land!!! Got some Breaking News for ya… Yesterday afternoon, I got an email from one of Amazon’s PR Peeps letting me know that Amazon has acquired Goodreads! Wow, right?! Here’s the official Amazon Press Release: Amazon.com to acquire Goodreads I luuuvvved this quote from the article: “I just found out my two favorite people [...]

WG2E-Land: Check Out Amazon’s New Author Rank!

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TGIF, WG2E-Land! Here’s a Brand New Feature from Amazon’s Author Central that’s just superfab fun and informative… Author Rank The October announcement from The Zon was as follows: Announcing Amazon Author Rank October 9, 2012 3:55 AM Today we have added a new feature, Amazon Author Rank, the definitive list of best-selling authors on Amazon.com.  This [...]

Amazon: Now Making “best tablet at any price”

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Happy Sunday, WG2E-Land! What an exciting day this past Thursday when Amazon unveiled its new Kindle Family! I took part in the event via ABC News dot com’s LiveBlog, which is a fabulous fun techno tool! Here’s the link: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/09/amazon-event-liveblog-new-kindle-fire-kindle-paperwhite-and-more/ ***Note: Thanks sooo much to ABC Reporter Joanna Stern for giving me a nice shout-out [...]

Kobo’s New Self-Publishing Platform Will Launch The End of June!!!

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Happy Sunday, WG2E-Land Peeps! Have y’all seen this announcement?! Kobo Announces Writing Life… Kobo made this announcement at BEA (Book Expo America) this week in NYC! And it means that they’ll soon be in the Self-Publishing Platform Biz right along with Amazon’s KDP and B&N’s Nook PubIt! Check out both their blog about it and [...]

For Microsoft and Barnes & Noble’s New Partnership It’s Not About Vacuum Cleaners and Redneck Wine Glasses!

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Happy Weekend, WG2E-Land! In my 2012 Indie Epublishing Predictions, I asked the question “What If…Apple Buys Barnes & Noble”. I was close to nailing it, but not totally right. It wasn’t Apple that was going to step in to save Barnes & Noble… It ended up being the other software giant… Microsoft!!! And no, this [...]