Sentences with phrase «about ebook retailers»

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Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.

I can understand this when talking about ebooks, whose distribution is - entirely - separate from the rigor of retail space (and from landlords and property tax passthroughs and shoplifting and etc).

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After iBooks comes Barnes & Noble's Nook store, which despite its steepening downward slide over the past two years, still remains the number three eBook retailer with about 7 - 8 %.

Without indicating what was so frustrating about Smashwords that its company is the «long - awaited alternative,» Draft2Digital does provide a little healthy competition in the free ebook uploading marketplace, while still distributing the book to the typical retailers.

Starting January 1, my ebooks will retail for about 25 % more than they sell for in the U.S. in every EU country but France and Luxembourg.

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If you have an ebook, visit our page on how to price your ebook to learn about determining royalties and setting a retail price.

While I'm very excited about the opportunity to use iBooks Author as a single tool to create fixed - format ebooks for the three major retailers that accept them (Apple, Kobo, and Amazon), I'm less sanguine about using the app to create reflowable ebooks — unless I'm creating a separate version for use on B&N, Smashwords, and the rest.

It's not something you would normally worry about, but recent unsavory events surrounding a particular eBook retailer have brought to light the importance of these clauses.

Specifically, we get to talk about DRM - free ebooks, the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), and retail innovation.

Five of the biggest publishers were so worried about the impact of ebooks on their hardcover sales that they risked an antitrust lawsuit in an effort to control the retail price of ebook bestsellers by linking their prices to the price of hardbacks.

Click here to visit the main page about the book, available now as a paperback from all good retailers, and as an ebook for Kindle from Amazon.

But while self - publishing can be surprisingly fast and easy — one could take a Word document to retail ebook in about three minutes, if pressed — it's definitely not a fast and easy path, and there's lot of effort and knowledge required to be successful.

On ebooks, industry standard is 25 % of NET — the price HarperCollins gets paid by the retailer, typically about half the cover price.

There is also an even deeper level of detail you can give on format and packaging, but unless these are critical qualities that you know are essential for retailers and distributors to know and to distinguish among various editions, then don't worry about specifying a more precise format beyond print hardback, print paperback, ebook, and so on.

The online retailer is selling ebook svia its digital store Flyte, which as of now has about 100,000 titles to offer.

The major ebook distribution retailers are notoriously tight - lipped when it comes to giving out specific information on their ebook and e-reader sales, but Amazon was recently forced to disclose some highly sensitive information to Parliament's PAC, or Public Accounts Committee, alongside fellow giants Starbucks and Google over disputes about the amounts of taxes owed.

When stores like the Borders chain collapsed or when B&N's sales figures plummet, concerns are raised about what ebooks and online retailing is doing to bookstores, but that discussion largely focuses on the major players, and less on the mom - and - pop physical bookstores.

When stores like the Borders chain collapsed or when B&N's sales figures plummet, concerns are raised about what ebooks and online retailing is... [Read more...]

Following the backlash from both sides of the publishing industry last fall over the removal of so - called «offensive» content from ebook retail websites, booksellers have become more cautious about the titles they let slip through.

King, along with nearly 900 other authors, signed a letter in support of publisher Hachette, who is in a revenue - negotiation struggle with the online retail giant about ebook profits.

The new Reader will retail for about $ 300 and come complete with a USB cable; eBook Library PC companion software; and a color - coordinated, protective soft cover.

I also don't know if you've been following my point about a single source controlling pricing now (Amazon) vs six publishers and two major retailers interacting (the big six plus Apple and Amazon), but I can't help believing that leaving the entire process of ebook pricing and market setting in the hands of single source is less desirable than allowing all the market players to interact.

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«We are working with Brazilian publishers and closing sales agreements with retailers, as well as a large chain of bookstores to distribute the eBook readers,» said Humphrey, which was excited about the digital book market in Brazil, «In over 5 years, 50 % of digital books will be in Brazil «bet.

The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.

Rachel Willmer, the founder of Luzme who recently spoke at the FutureBook Conference, spoke to GoodeReader this week about the creation of what is essentially a highly - accessible search engine for retailing ebooks directly to consumers.

«Apple is our No. 2 e-book retailer over the past year — and a strong No. 2,» said Matt Cavnar, co-founder of Vook, which distributes about 5,000 ebooks for authors, small - and medium - sized publishers and its own publishing operations.

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...]

Today on the show we talk about Libraries as Retail with the Simon & Schuster mandating that libraries sell eBooks in order to carry digital titles.

Starting in 2008, e-books sales accounted for just 2 per cent of the US book retail market but rose steeply to about 10 per cent last year, said Mark Tanner, Google eBooks representative in Australia, who like Mr Neil and others, is forging links between his company and local publishers.

From the remaining ten percent of the market that Apple shared with virtually every other retailer except Amazon, Apple now apparently holds about 20 % of the ebook market, according to website MacRumors.

While ebook sales accounted for only about $ 250 million for the retailer last year, their current projections are putting ebook sales at more than $ 2 billion by 2015.

I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up ebook prices, which they've always wanted to do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about what ebook buyers are willing to pay.

As you say in your concluding section, «With Judge Coteâ $ ™ s decision in, however, itâ $ ™ s possible that Amazon could get more aggressive about offering these discounts, which Apple and other ebook retailers might then try to match.»

John was interviewed by CNN about the rise of ebooks and its impact on traditional retail bookstores.

With Judge Cote's decision in, however, it's possible that Amazon could get more aggressive about offering these discounts, which Apple and other ebook retailers might then try to match.

The coming month is when the 60 - day wait period on the settlement will expire, meaning hopefully as early as next week there could potentially be discussions between the retailers and the publishers about a reduced cost for ebooks.

The tech magnate obviously doesn't think so, and has fired back in court briefs about the abusive requests the DOJ is making, requests which include steps that prevent Apple from working in the agency model — one of the major sources of these allegations in the first place — for five years rather than the proposed two, as well as insisting that Apple allow retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble to sell ebooks through their iOS - capable apps and receive a commission on those sales like an affiliate would.

Paying authors about 10 - 20 % less than most other ebook retailers, a typical scenario, actually works out to about twice the profits for Amazon in comparison to almost all other retailers.

Obviously, a number of publishers are upset about this and feel it's just another example of Amazon using its considerable status to make demands on the publishers; another contract term that has raised ire is the requirement that the publisher inform Amazon before offering its titles to another retailer at a lower price, despite the fact that this requirement is actually in accordance with a German law that requires all booksellers to sell each specific title at the same price throughout the country, including ebooks.

In terms of books, «It's the information you provide about your book or ebook to help retailers and librarians sell or catalog it, and to help potential readers learn what it's about.»

• Amazon dominates ebook sales — traditional and self - published combined — with nearly 80 % of the market in the U.S. and more than an 80 % share in the U.K. • Apple is the next largest ebook retailer, but with a mere 9 % in the US and about 7 % in the U.K. — no one else has any meaningful share in the two current largest English - language markets.

To learn more about how to set up your ebook on the different retailers, read our master guide on ebook publishing platforms.

Friday's #FutureChat about author experience in digital - first didn't debate slowing growth in the ebook sector, nor the question of ebook - price control in major online retail settings per Author Earnings.

Pricing and Availability The new Reader will retail for about $ 300 and come complete with a USB cable; eBook Library PC companion software; and a color - coordinated, protective soft cover.

In the first paragraph of the so - called article, Kozlowski talks about self - published authors with «insistent need to spam social media and pump out a copious amount of horrible ebooks...» He complains that self - published books are found right there along with what I assume he thinks are «real» books on Amazon and other online retailers.

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.

A little known fact about eBook distribution is that each retail channel has their very own set of requirements for accepting content that your eBook must meet before it can be sold.