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Guides, case studies, market insights, and product updates for the digital publishing industry.
Archive Digitization for Publishers: Turning Backlists Into Revenue
Your publication's back catalog is a revenue asset hiding in plain sight. Learn how magazine and newspaper publishers are digitizing archives and turning decades of content into sustainable new income streams.
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Indie Bookshops Going Digital: 3 Models That Work
Explore three proven digital business models for independent bookshops — from curated storefronts to hybrid physical-digital experiences and niche community platforms.
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How to Curate an Ebook Catalog That Sells
Learn how to curate an ebook catalog that drives sales — from genre selection and metadata optimization to seasonal rotations and data-driven decisions.
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Payment Processing for Digital Bookshops: Taxes, Currencies, and Compliance
Selling digital books across borders means navigating VAT rules, multi-currency pricing, local payment methods like PIX and OXXO, and PCI compliance. This guide breaks down the key payment challenges for digital bookshop owners and explains how the right platform infrastructure makes cross-border sales manageable.
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White-Label Ebook Storefront vs Marketplace: What Bookshops Need to Know
Ebook marketplaces offer easy entry but strip bookshops of brand control, customer data, and margins. This article compares selling through marketplaces like Amazon with owning a white-label ebook storefront, making the case for why independent and online bookshops should own their digital customer relationships.
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How to Launch a Digital Bookshop: The Complete Guide
A step-by-step guide for independent booksellers and ebook retailers ready to build their own digital storefront. Covers platform selection, catalog building, reader experience, and go-to-market strategy — everything you need to launch and grow a digital bookshop that belongs to you.
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Interactive Magazine Content: What Readers Actually Use
Not all interactive features are created equal. Discover which digital magazine interactions actually drive reader engagement — and which ones publishers invest in but readers ignore.
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Zero-Party Data for Publishers: Predicting Best-Sellers with Reader Analytics
Learn how D2C publishers use reader behavior data — completion rates, highlights, search queries — to predict best-sellers and make smarter editorial decisions.
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ONIX Feed Integration: What Publishers Need to Know
Learn how ONIX 3.0 feed integration works, the key fields to get right, and why native ONIX support in your platform makes all the difference.
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How AI Narration Is Changing Audiobook Production Costs
AI narration tools like ElevenLabs and Amazon Polly are slashing audiobook production costs by up to 80%. Here's what publishers need to know.
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5 Metadata Mistakes That Kill Ebook Discoverability
Most ebook discoverability problems trace back to metadata. Here are the 5 most common mistakes publishers make — and how to fix each one.
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KDP Revenue Share vs D2C: What Publishers Actually Keep
A clear breakdown of KDP's royalty tiers versus direct-to-consumer platforms — and why smart publishers are using both, with D2C as the anchor.
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