If you’re an independent author moving into digital publishing — and you should be! — this is a must-read editorial from The Naked Book. He provides good insight into how ebooks are sold and makes a solid case for why authors need to pay attention to the industry now while it is still young. 

In a burgeoning market, nothing is carved in stone. Now is the time to make noise, not later when two or three online retailers have all the power to make decisions about how your books are bought and sold!

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Over the past three years we’ve seen electronic reading grow at an incredible rate. I mean that literally: a few years ago, no one would have believed this was possible. At the same time we’ve watched physical bookstores close at a rate equally as incredible; in that case, we wished it weren’t…