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Average Ebook Best-Seller Price Rises for Third Week as Self-Published Titles Drop Off List What is going on with ebook best-seller prices? After months of consistent declines to a low near $6.00, they're on the rise again. This week, the average price of an ebook best-seller is $9.48, up slightly from last week, which was the first time the price was north of $9.00 in all of 2013. The reasons that ebook prices declined over a period of months have been explained and long-discussed: -- The rise of some self-published works, all of which were priced at $3.99 and below, to the best-seller list. -- Given control over the pricing of ebooks from HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, Amazon and other retailers began discounting them at will from $14.99 and $12.99 to points lower. -- Publishers and retailers started experimenting with discounting back-list titles and old best-sellers in attempts to juice sales. So, why are prices going up? Read more. Ebook best-sellers from the week ending 6/23: -- Top-25 Best-Selling Ebooks -- Top Selling Ebooks: $10 and above -- Top Selling Ebooks: $8.00 - $9.99 -- Top Selling Ebooks: $3.00 - $7.99 -- Top Selling Ebooks: $0.00 - $2.99 Barnes & Noble Exiting the Device Business? (DBW) There is a lot of evidence to suggest that Barnes & Noble will be discontinuing at least its tablet business this year. The company declined to comment in light of its earnings report today. In fact, by the time you read this, you might already know the answer! Related: B&N Adds Nook App to Nextbook Tablets | B&N Adds Nook App to Fuhu nabi Kids Tablets Kindle Worlds Spawns First Imitator (DBW) Outlier Digital thinks that Kindle Worlds is a great idea. So great, in fact, that it's doing its own version of the fan fiction licensing scheme with slight differences from Kindle Worlds. An Introduction to SQL - New Course from DBW! Join DBW and Aerbook.com CTO Nick Ruffilo for a new course at DBW U! 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