Sentences with phrase «about ebook business models»

In the first article, we looked at why school librarians need to know about ebook business models.

However, LCA was able to make some points about ebook business models that the task force took seriously.

Not exact matches

«When it comes to eBooks, people talk about the technology a lot but they don't spend much time looking at business models.

Today, Editor in Chief Michael Kozlowski and Senior Editor Mercy Pilkington talk for an hour about the Digital Book World Conference that transpired this week and discuss the business model of eBook Subscription websites, how Libraries are acting as retail... [Read more...]

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.

I don't even know how to say what I feel about publishers at this point — part of the problem is that they insist on acting as if we are still in the 1800's — they haven't changed their business models in a long time and they really are almost clueless when it comes to looking at the future of books — I wouldn't mind paying more for an ebook or even a paper based book if the author was getting more revenue but it's not about the author at this point it's all about the publisher.

In this issue you'll still find news about new Kindle features, other ebook readers, benchmarks in the ongoing Kindle Revolution, and insightful analysis by Publetariat founder (and Kindle Nation general manager) April Hamilton on ebook business - to - consumer models.

Sorry, but when no other ebook retailer charges an ebook download fee and Amazon charges one that, based on its AWS fees, indicates a markup in excess of 10,000 %, I don't think about business models.

The key objection voiced about SELF - e is its business model: the service is free to independent authors who submit their ebooks but offers no royalty payments to those authors for checkouts of their ebooks.

In the first article, we looked at what a business model is and at the four main kinds of ebook business models that K - 12 librarians need to know about.

We've all been down this copy protection road many times before with music and then video... and now eBooks... The publishers need to realize that change is not only inevitable, but inherently good and we're quickly moving to a dis - intermediated world... Darwin was right about who will survive (i.e. adapt or die) and the technology has been (and always will be) ahead of legislation and emerging business models... Sharing among trusted friends is basically «free marketing» and there's plenty of empirical evidence out there to support a complementary effect on book sales.

Many here have talked about the business model changes that are necessary for publishers to survive the eBook business.

If you want to read more about the existing business models in the ebook industry, take a look at our previous blog post here, where we discussed ebook pricing models in greater detail.

There was nothing illegal per se about the contracts the publishers had with Amazon or that the publishers were able to set the retail price under those contracts (Apple was doing business under an agency model for years before they got into ebooks and continues to for its app and music sales).

Look, I'm be big Amazon user and I like their consumer - focus business model, that said, Amazon can self proclaim all they want about ebook profit growth, until they release actual numbers nothing is real.