Sentences with phrase «early ebook authors»

When I assign that number I imagine my book getting assigned in a «Critical Review of Early Ebook Authors» class or some such and it motivates me to do the best job I can.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, Author Solutions acquired another one of its competitors, Xlibris; entered partnerships with traditional publishers Thomas Nelson and Harlequin to create self - publishing imprints; and partnered with Sony to make all of their books available as eBooks.

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.

That's not to say it was ever easy, but the authors who were early to the eBook market in particular enjoyed an advantage that authors just now entering the market do not enjoy.

Authors who made a mint in the early stages of the rise of eBooks are now being forced out of business, simply because there are better, or cheaper books out there.

But readers were all over those early 99 - cent ebooks because they were such a bargain, and numerous self - published authors leaped to the tops of the bestseller lists.

But all this is assuming (A) ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for ebooks, or any content, in five years.

Amazon mentioned in an earlier press release that five fiction authors, Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts, have sold over 500,000 Kindle eBooks each.

Here is Part I of my tips for my earlier self and therefore, all new indie authors who are about to publish their first ebook (or even afterward).

Unfortunately, a report that was released earlier this year showed that one way publishers are looking into protecting authors is to ban off - site or remote ebook lending, thereby requiring patrons to come into their local libraries in order to borrow ebooks, essentially destroying one of the key advantages to e-reading, namely, the portability and anywhere access to ebooks.

Since ebooks burst onto the market in the late 1990s - early - 2000s, determining the price for an eBook has been at the forefront of an ongoing debate for authors, publishers, and readers.

Jeanette is not just the author of today's book, When It's Right (reviewed here), but also one of the books on my Best Ebook Romances of the Year list over at Library Journal, Take What You Want (reviewed earlier this year).

The current system they employ of letting the market decide only seems to result in early adopters getting stung with poor eBooks, and in authors simply redistributing their books once they get a bad review.

A separate option, audiobook production company Common Mode, is now broadening its model from its early days of producing ebooks for the traditional publishing industry into serving the needs of indie authors and small presses.

Earlier this year, Author Earnings released a report showing Amazon is far and away the leader, with more than 80 percent of English - language eBook sales worldwide — both indie and traditionally - published — and 91 Continue reading «Choices for Publishing, 2017 Edition»

Evan Jacobs started Kindlegraph in early 2011 with a unique system that connected authors with their fans to digitally autograph ebooks.

One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her ebooks available exclusively through her own website, forgoing the percentage that would have gone to the major ebook distribution retailers.

«It's too early to distinguish between global trends and seasonal trends, but the percentage of ebook dollars going to indie authors has crept up for two straight quarters.

One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her ebooks available exclusively through her own website,... [Read more...]

It's best to get your catalog added now so that you can join the early wave of authors as libraries excitedly try to incorporate ebooks into their physical catalog of books.

Important note: As Dana Delamar points out in the comments section, some authors are better off with an earlier proofing process — one that starts before ebook design and file prep.

I started offering my services to authors and publishers as a side business in early 2008, and by the end of that year I had decided to quit my job and start eBook Architects.

Like early bloggers who have built massive traffic online, authors of all kinds of books have the opportunity to find their own audiences, and ebooks just make that whole effort more direct and more efficient.

She spent her early days formatting for eBooks and now handles all formatting and uploading for authors.

I was so sadly disappointed by the limitation that I discussed the advantage of eBook and was eventually invited to attend the Writer's Day early next month to talk about eBook solution for authors.

Note from Jane Friedman: Earlier this month, I featured a guest post on how self - published authors can distribute their ebooks to libraries, through the SELF - e program from Library Journal and BiblioBoard.

Right this report basically reports what they stated early on — no money in writing unless you are one of 5 authors per year in ebooks.

Being tipped by Joanna Penn earlier yesterday on The Alliance of Independent Authors» private Facebook board, this recently posted piece from BBC about eBook sand self - publishing again clarifies what self - publishers are known for; that is, connecting directly with their target audience and imposing a strict quality check.

This 105 - page eBook, authored by Steven Spatz, BookBaby's newly - announced president, is an updated and expanded version of a guide that thousands of NaNoWriMo writers downloaded earlier this year with the kickoff of Camp NaNoWriMo.

Back in the old days, circa 2009 when Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing was in its infancy, authors were publishing books left, right and center, barely able to keep up with the sudden demand for ebooks, which quickly led to the initial Tsunami of Crap populating Amazon's earlier online offerings...

Some of his best articles and publications include «Author Blogging 101», «Book Title Pages: 500 Years of Inspiration», «Five Free Must - Use Tools for Professional eBook Authors» and «10 Ways to Get an Early Feedback on your Manuscript or Book Idea».

Early on in the ebook revolution, Amazon enacted a policy charging authors a small fee for every ebook sold and downloaded that had a file size larger than 1 MB — mainly targeting graphic - heavy ebooks such as graphic novels and children's books.

In earlier times, before ebooks and print - on - demand technologies, vanity presses required the author to purchase a substantial number of copies of his or her book upfront.

Just my, 02 We kicked around the pricing of our own ebooks in the author support group that I belonged to early on, and pretty much agreed that $ 2 - 5 was the sweet spot for relative unknowns.

Established in early 2014, Prosaic publishes New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors in eBook, print, and audiobook format, and is expanding into German and French in 2016.

Just a brief but, I hope, worthwhile follow - up my post earlier today about ebooks from the author's perspective....

As I said earlier, there's no hard and fast rule when pricing eBooks and not every author will have the same experience, depending on which genre they write in, how many books they have on the market and current industry trends.

In early 2011, he began to use Amazon to reach international readers through his ebooks and became one of the leading independent authors in the world with more than 100,000 books sold in his first year.

Howey and Guy mean by «definitive» is, as Vanessa Amorosi's song has it, «absolutely everybody» is in their sights now: they've moved beyond their earlier surveys» focus on bestsellers to create a wider data set, which they describe as «a complete picture of Amazon author earnings — ebook, print, and audio sales combined — for every single author, traditionally published or indie, who is making any significant Amazon sales today whatsoever.»

Speaking earlier this month, a few days before Amazon announced its MatchBook plan to offer «bundling» of low - cost or free ebooks with print book purchases, self - publishing entrepreneur and hybrid author Hugh Howey was — as seems usual — a bit ahead of the game: «Ebook - plus - audio or ebook - plus - print,» he told Publishing Perspectives in an interEbook - plus - audio or ebook - plus - print,» he told Publishing Perspectives in an interebook - plus - print,» he told Publishing Perspectives in an interview.

Or, to put it another way, the Defendants lost millions of ebook sales over the past couple of years to indie authors, small presses, and the innovative publishers we mentioned earlier, including Amazon Publishing and its imprints.

Thad: This same Author Earnings report includes the assertion that the «Big Five ebook market share has fallen precipitously in early 2017, to just 20.8 %.»

It at least seems likely there are more genre authors making a living than the early 7000 ebook report showed.

The triptych of slides below make that case with glaring starkness: in them, we can see Big Five debut authors dropping from 22 % of ebook sales by debut authors in early 2014, down to barely 9 % of those vital, career - launching initial sales in early 2016.

An early 2017 five - country, 15 - retailer report from Author Earnings shows that Amazon.com owned a startling 65 % of all ebook unit sales in those English - speaking countries including the USA.

Perhaps, it is too early to predict what the bestselling eBook authors of 2013 industry would write and succeed.

The Smashwords link - up with ebook subscription service Scribd has got off to a strong start, with early sales exceeding expectations and continuing to grow, and now showcasing indie authors on the Scribd website front page.