Michael R. Hicks » Digital Text Platform http://www.kreelanwarrior.com Tales and Musings Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Mobipocket No Longer Accepting New Publishers http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/10/mobipocket-no-longer-accepting-new-publishers/ http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/10/mobipocket-no-longer-accepting-new-publishers/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:23:22 +0000 Michael R. Hicks http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/?p=737 If you’ve visited the Mobipocket site recently with the intention of setting up a new publisher account, you no doubt encountered this message on the publisher welcome page:

Effective September 2009, we will no longer open new accounts for publishers to sell titles through the Kindle Store or MobiPocket.com. If you have an existing account, there will be no change and you can continue to upload and sell titles using Ebookbase. New publishers with a US address and bank account can sign up to sell ebooks in the Kindle store via our self-service publishing channel at http://dtp.amazon.com.

While I haven’t seen any confirmation, this certainly looks like the first big step in Amazon absorbing Mobipocket into the overall Digital Text Platform (DTP) service, which is the other route – besides Mobipocket – for getting book into the Amazon Kindle store (note: for independent publishers; mainstream publishers have their own distribution channel for Kindle).

So, the upshot is that if you have an existing Mobipocket account, you’re fine for now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some changes in the next year. The big question will be if Amazon will continue to use Mobipocket as a distribution platform for the many independent ebook retailers out there. Stay tuned!

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