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Content / e-books
Apple Books Bestsellers: Barack Obama's 'Promised' Bestseller
The first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, 'A Promised Land,' hit the top of the Apple Books store's bestseller list during its first week on sale, as was expected for what will likely be the year's biggest book.
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Content / e-books
Apple Books Category Bestsellers, November 22, 2020
The bestselling Apple Books in fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, health, mind & body, and more for the week ended November 22, 2020.
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Retailing
Writers Groups Protest Audible Exchange Policy
The Authors Guild and other writer organizations are gathering signatures on a letter protesting a policy by Audible that enables Audible Premium Plus customers to exchange audiobooks they have purchased within 365 days and deducts those returns and exchanges from authors’ accounts.
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Copyright
Court Shuts Down Pirate Sites for Educational Materials
The trademark and copyright infringement suit alleges that the operators of 231 websites were selling "illegal, unlicensed copies of test banks and instructor solutions manuals," resources sold only to teachers and not made publicly available or available to students by the plaintiff publishers.
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Retailing
Author-Funded BingeBooks Site Launches
More than 120 authors have come together to fund BingeBooks, an online community and book discovery site that launched November 18.
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Content / e-books
Apple Books Bestsellers: Connelly's 'Law' Rules
Michael Connelly's sixth Mickey Haller book, 'The Law of Innocence,' is #1 on the Apple Books store's bestseller list, with Boyd Morrison and Clive Cussler's 'Marauder' at #2.
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Content / e-books
Need to Spice Up Your PR? These Two Tools Could Help.
Recent developments in the tech world will help publishers license images and publicize books.
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Content / e-books
Apple Books Category Bestsellers, November 8, 2020
The bestselling Apple Books in fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, health, mind & body, and more for the week ended November 8, 2020.
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Content / e-books
Apple Books Bestsellers: Evanovich Finds 'Fortune and Glory' At #1
'Fortune and Glory' by Janet Evanovich is on top of the Apple Books store's bestseller list, followed by 'The Sentinel,' Andrew Child's first Jack Reacher novel after taking over for his brother, Lee Child.
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Content / e-books
Apple Books Category Bestsellers, November 1, 2020
The bestselling Apple Books in fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, health, mind & body, and more for the week ended November 1, 2020.