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In the latest sign of this disruption, author John Locke — who earlier this year became the first self - published author to sell a million ebooks — has signed an innovative deal with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance of power.

I point you over here, at AuthorEarnings.com, where they're talking about how there is a strong shift in ebook purchasing over to indie - published and Amazon - imprint - published ebooks.

At yesterday's IDPF event, BiblioBoard's Mitchell Davis sat down with Good eReader to talk about the new feature that was just launched with Library Journal that will offer libraries a way to feel confident about including self - published ebooks in their lending catalogs.

A little about me: I have two ebooks indie published (one available in print), a contract with a small press for a digital serial style series with the option of print on demand copies later, and more ideas and drafts then I know what to do with other then publish them one at a time myself.

First, I took a look at the eBooks Compiler at http://www.ebookscompiler.com because someone asked about it on one of the self - publishing lists.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Your emotional response just now is a contrast to that, and is also signified by my article focusing on ebooks while you immediately launched a defense of self - publishing, which wasn't what the article was about at all.

In addition we are hoping to present over 100,000 commercial eBook titles from our friends at Digital Pulp Publishing, & eBooks About Everything and other fine commercial eBook sources... for a grand total of nearly 3/4 million eBooks.

Pressbooks.com founder Hugh McGuire shared his ideas about how ebooks can serve readers better at the International Digital Publishing Forum Digital Book 2015 conference.

Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am

Bowker, a company that has released some vital reports on studies conducted across various aspects of the publishing industry, spoke to GoodEReader at Digital Book World about the staggering growth of ebooks in the market, the metadata requirements that help a reading audience find the books that are being produced, and the overall buying and reading preferences of consumers.

Good e-Reader sat down at the Frankfurt Book Fair today with Theresa Horner, Vice President of Digital Content at Barnes and Noble, to talk about the current state of the Nook division, the associated Nook Press self - publishing platform, and the upcoming affiliate drive to help authors receive an additional benefit for driving their own fans towards ebook purchases that offer a return on the transaction.

About three years ago, then - VP, Digital Content and GM of Barnes and Noble's Nook Press division Theresa Horner sat down with GoodEReader at the Frankfurt Book Fair to discuss the state of the company, namely its self - publishing option and its ebook self - publishing platform.

Check out the Smashwords blog, where you'll be the first to learn about ebook publishing best practices, and exciting new developments at Smashwords.

Now she's finally published a tell - all memoir about her life — and at least until midnight on Sunday, it's available as a free Kindle ebook!

At last month's FutureBook Conference, Soucebooks» CEO and publisher Dominque Raccah sat down to speak with GoodeReader about the newly launched Put Me In The Story platform, an interactive ebook publishing model that lets parents and educators use the readers» own pictures and names in the bestselling children's... [Read more...]

John Donatich, Director, Yale University Press was the first speaker and said «When we look at the range of our publishing activities in all four of our lines, only about 7 % of the business involves eBooks.

In January, GoodeReader interviewed Vook VP of Business Development Matt Cavner at Digital Book World about a digital publishing model that Publisher's Weekly has called a «game changer» in the world of ebooks.

My blog at http://peajayar/blogspot.com is about self publishing, both as ebook and print book and about my reading, so I hope it fits okay here.

There's lots to learn though and reading about those who've found success self - publishing eBooks will hopefully mean I can avoid (at least a few) mistakes along the way.

This was my first year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the annual trade show that brings over 200,000 publishing professionals to Germany, so I can't say whether the event had more of a digital focus than in years past — but I assume that it did, because there was plenty of news about ebooks and digital publishing coming out of the fair.

Author U — Your Guide to Book Publishing focused on eBook strategies with author Mark Coker who will present the opening session at the Extravaganza on Friday AM — you don't want to miss it... and make sure you listen to the radio show with him — an amazing array of info was delivered about eBooks.

Author U — Your Guide to Book Publishing focused on all things publishing today and new ways to target your reader market with author Dan Poynter who will present the opening session at the Extravaganza on Friday AM — you don't want to miss it... and make sure you listen to the radio show with him — an amazing array of info was delivered aboPublishing focused on all things publishing today and new ways to target your reader market with author Dan Poynter who will present the opening session at the Extravaganza on Friday AM — you don't want to miss it... and make sure you listen to the radio show with him — an amazing array of info was delivered abopublishing today and new ways to target your reader market with author Dan Poynter who will present the opening session at the Extravaganza on Friday AM — you don't want to miss it... and make sure you listen to the radio show with him — an amazing array of info was delivered about eBooks.

After all, why would give up 70 % of the takings for less than 25 % of the takings - I'll refer you to Amy Shojai's blog post about legacy Ebook publishing for the numbers: http://amyshojai.com/2011/05/17/tuesday-tips-kindle-ization-2-brass-ring-or-lead-balloon/ Now if someone comes along, and can help me increase my sales by x % at y % cost, so that I increase my profits by z % as Joe put it, I'd be crazy not do go with them.

And Sebba's remarks (her Amazon author page is here for you) may have revealed at least as much about the suspicion and dislike many in the publishing community still harbor for ebooks as about their concern for how today's books are sold.

I am just at that stage — published by a tiny New Zealand publisher, about to release my fantasy novel as an ebook and dreaming about being «discovered» so that my physical book will be available worldwide and everyone will know about it!

But I wrote a small ebook about them and you can pick up a copy of my SHORT FUSE GUIDE TO BOOK PUBLISHING RIGHTS at Smashwords by clicking here.

I then got challenged by writers in my country to publish an eBook and look at it from the other side... (hmm why did they push me out of the boat first...) What you write about puts into perspective what I have been mulling over for a while.

Ask your questions about choosing book and ebook covers by attending a free Published & Profitable book coaching call, Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 4:00 PM Eastern.

Below you'll find links to most popular articles about this topic we published so far at Ebook Friendly.

So my advice would be to do this all by yourself: Publish your comic either as an app or as a ebook (Amazon Kindle store, iBook store,...) and you will pay at the most 30 %, and this 30 % means you won't have to worry about handling credit cards, doing paybacks, distributing your comic, etc., and you get very good exposure as well.

I love meeting writers at these events and I've always enjoyed presenting my various workshops about ebook publishing best practices.

Gordon Burgett presents Our best practices for general market book publishing in mid-2013 posted at Gordon Burgett's Blog, saying, «The order in which we submit our books in mid-2013, to paperback and ebook houses — plus some words about BookBaby»

The Verge, The Guardian, and The Telegraph have all published articles about the blog, where bored citizens of the internet can go to laugh at beautifully awful ebook cover designs.

Amazon's focus on ebooks might not matter particularly for a traditional publishing venture (although I think all publishers today should be at least thinking about establish online communities), but Kindle Worlds is attempting to attract the fan communities, who not only write, but also interact and read, online.

-LSB-...] Important Publishing Developments Authors Should Know (Jane Friedman) It's commonly said that in the United States, overall trade book sales are divided about 70 - 30 print - digital, and that ebook sales at traditional publishing houses are flat to Publishing Developments Authors Should Know (Jane Friedman) It's commonly said that in the United States, overall trade book sales are divided about 70 - 30 print - digital, and that ebook sales at traditional publishing houses are flat to publishing houses are flat to declining.

A couple of quick items: First, I took a look at the eBooks Compiler at http://www.ebookscompiler.com because someone asked about it on one of the self - publishing lists.

Following on from the previous article about Amazon eBook publishing and being specific with your Amazon tags, let's take one step further and look at how you can use these tags to increase your book's discover - ability in the Amazon ecosystem.

(I know that this, like much of publishing, is changing, but in June 2009 most traditional publishers were adamant about not publishing print and ebooks at the same time.)

In his recent New Insights on eBook Unit Sales from Nielsen, Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch had a couple of explanatory paragraphs about how the traditional publishing market action is reported.

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

I'm going to talk about metadata, foreign markets, cover designers, book promotion, ebook formatting, and a whole slew of other things that will make you better at the business of self - publishing.

Yes, authors will be looking at those clauses about digital rights in contracts very closely, especially with the high royalty rates for the self - published ebooks.

At present, about half the top hundred list for ebooks in each genre of fiction are self published.

At the All - New uPublishU at BEA (formerly known as DIY Authors Conference & Marketplace), aspiring writers and authors will learn from industry experts tips and tactics and all about the tools and technology to help them self - publish a print book or an ebooAt the All - New uPublishU at BEA (formerly known as DIY Authors Conference & Marketplace), aspiring writers and authors will learn from industry experts tips and tactics and all about the tools and technology to help them self - publish a print book or an ebooat BEA (formerly known as DIY Authors Conference & Marketplace), aspiring writers and authors will learn from industry experts tips and tactics and all about the tools and technology to help them self - publish a print book or an ebook.

With the eBook market share stabilizing at about 30 % of sales and the decline in the number of retail bookstores new publishers have forsaken traditional inventory based publishing for digital publishing and print on demand (POD).

Happy Tails Books published the Mill Dog Manifesto as a free eBook to help people learn about rescue and at the very least recognize the signs indicating that a puppy is coming from a mill and not a reputable breeder.