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Amazon released its list of the bestselling books of 2012 on Friday morning. The list is a great summary of one of the key themes in book publishing in 2012: Self-published authors and traditional publishers need each other.…
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This weekly feature tells the backstory of how one e-book became a bestseller, and highlights bestselling titles that are selling better in digital than in print. This week: Marriage to a billionaire.…
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Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel that started out as Twilight fan fiction and that will now be re-published by Random House's Vintage,……
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