Google eBookstore, Amazon BookScan & Kickstarter Books: Weekend Reading

By Jason Boog 

As we head home for the weekend, we wanted to make sure you had plenty of publishing headlines to keep you busy. Email GalleyCat to get all our publishing stories, book deal news, videos, podcasts, interviews, and writing advice in a daily email newsletter.

We created a giant directory of eBook Summit Speakers & Attendees–“like a who’s who of digital and print publishing.”

Google eBookstore opened for business.

Amazon gave authors free access to Nielsen BookScan sales data.

We showed you how to use Kickstarter to fund your publishing project.

We listed the Best YA Books of 2010 in a collection of free samples.

Michael Chabon was named chairman at the MacDowell Colony.

We pondered what publishers, authors & journalists can learn from indie rock and music blogs.

A Borders Group investor suggested a Barnes & Noble and Borders merger.

We saw how a single father & self-published author went from poverty level to earning $18,000 in a quarter.

Oprah Winfrey made a double Dickens Book Club pick.

We showed you how Postertext prints an entire book’s text on single poster.