Sentences with phrase «about ebook stores»

We talked about ebook stores being like search engines, right?

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple, as it prepared to launch its own ebook store, persuaded publishers to price ebooks at $ 13 and $ 15, or about $ 3 more than the same books being sold through Amazon and other outlets.
I heard about pressure from physical bookstores to increase ebook prices, or they would refuse to stock the titles in their stores.
One of the most other common problems we hear about at Good e-Reader is the LENDME functions that allow you to share select ebooks you purchase from the Barnes and Noble eBook store.
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 %.
With that as my mindset, I made some observations about the iTunes Store channel vs. the Amazon.com channel and suggested the two are the only viable mass merchants of eBooks.
I sold about 2700 copies of it during the month (not including those who purchased through my eARC offering in August) and about 6,000 ebooks across all of my titles and all stores (over 5,000 came from Amazon U.S.).
I wrote not that long ago about the new version of the WH Smith eBook store, and when Kindle launched I compared the prices of a selection of books — essentially looking at those I've bought, and comparing what the price would be to buy the whole collection again for Kindle, or just to buy them all now, if I were starting from scratch.
I wrote not that long ago about the new version of the WH Smith eBook store, and when Kindle launched I compared the prices -LSB-...]
That's because we have learned a lot about the different quirks of all the different digital book stores, so we always start with this generic review copy of your ebook, but we actually process that file and convert it into a customized version every time we deliver it to one of our partner stores.
Last year I read 45 ebooks and 8 paper books, but I actually spent more on those physical books as I did in the Kindle store (a total about # 70 on the paper ones, and # 44.82 on ebooks — all the ebooks I've bought and not read yet [if I ever will, as I continue to buy faster than I read] pretty much equal the total spend though).
Fact is though — not everyone will want to opt for an investment in an eBay store, whereas — everyone can in fact create an eBook about some topic they are interested in.
Jim and Bryan are back with news about 2016 author data, audiobook monopolies, Microsoft's new ebook store, and more!
You can get just about any format you want for your device of choice at All Romance eBooks, though, and for the remainder of today they're offering a 50 % rebate on everything in their store — that means you can get Unlocked for effectively 50 cents.
The interesting thing about that is that if that is true today, when happens over the next year or two as ebooks close on 50 % market share, Borders goes away, and B&N closes most of the rest of their stores?
The way Google is going about their new ebook store concept is allowing the publishers to set the price of their ebook, and this a tremendously riveting.
The online retailer is selling ebook svia its digital store Flyte, which as of now has about 100,000 titles to offer.
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This morning, Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store, spoke about the horizontal and vertical shifts of Amazon, beginning with the initial bookselling in 1995 and moving into other offerings beginning in 2007, including ebooks and e-readers, grocery, fashion, and more.
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...]
One of the misunderstandings authors have about the sale of ebooks abroad is that customers in countries that do not have their own dedicated Amazon stores are still often able to use a «neighboring» Amazon.
Originally posted at BookGorilla.com Over at his Kindle Review blog Abhi has been doing his usually fine job of following events in the Kindlesphere, and he turned his focus today on something we've been thinking about too: the effect of the Kindle Store's wildly popular Sunshine Deals promotion on ebook prices generally.
More importantly, there was a lot of discussion from some of the industry leaders about why children's books are slower to be adopted as ebooks than adult fiction, namely factors like the file size necessary to store an illustrated and interactive book, considerations which have led to the popularity of book apps.
«We got a new contract that states that we must directly give information about the buyer if some anti-piracy agency (BREIN) finds an ebook file online,» said Kurt Roeckx, who operates the Dutch ebook store E-webshops.
Payhip may not have any ebooks currently in its library or any type of store setup on its main webpage, but we were told this is not what the company is all about.
The titles that Amazon will acquire from Avalon have not yet been converted to digital, so both parties are excited about the transition to ebook and the ability to make these titles available in the Kindle store.
How about this, imagine an ebook store with no ebooks.
If you have purchased an ebook, entered your payment information in Chrome or purchased something in a store — you know what I am talking about.
In Malaysia, ebook stores are just about one year old, but they started in Indonesia in 1999.
Today Michael Kozlowski and Jeremy Greenfield talk about the hottest topic in self - publishing right now, the bulk deleting of erotica content from major eBook stores.
The company is setting its sights on being the world's biggest digital magazine store catering to the booming tablet market, but has also dropped hints about getting into the ebook business at a later stage.
One of the best things about the Nook is that you can purchase ebooks from anywhere that sells ebooks with Adobe DRM, which most ebook stores do — except Amazon and Apple.
Taking a specific example, iBook store sold about half a million eBooks in a period of one month.
Yesterday the The New York Times had a fascinating piece about how ebook sales, contra Aggregation Theory, are actually declining even as publishers and book stores are thriving on the back of print: 1
Amazon's best at this right now: you can browse the Amazon store, buy an ebook, and be reading it within about a minute, anytime, anywhere.
There's over 117 different ebooks about the Declaration of Independence for sale in the store — but they'll all cost you at least 99 cents.
Then you may need to inform Amazon by going to your ebook's Kindle Store page (the one on the front end of the store that buyers see), and click on the «Tell us about a lower price» link just below the book's rankStore page (the one on the front end of the store that buyers see), and click on the «Tell us about a lower price» link just below the book's rankstore that buyers see), and click on the «Tell us about a lower price» link just below the book's rankings.
If you look at the books in a book store, or in your bookcase — no, I'm not talking about your Kindle ebooks — you will find they usually have a very similar structure.
There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.
One of the most exciting features is Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction and don't forget about the built in support for the Google eBook Store and thousands of apps from Android Market.
They also sell your ebooks on their own online store and make your ebook available for sale in just about every format that exists and to top it off they do all of that for free!
But the pieces of the Scribd store I'm most excited about is the real - time reporting (compared with a lag of a month or more with most ebook resellers, including Amazon), the option to easily provide free updates to existing content, and the variety of adjustable display options — like preview amount, refreshingly optional DRM, and purchase - link images.
The numbers I've seen thrown around as «conventional wisdom» (as opposed to hard data, which you are citing) is 4 % of print fiction is sold through Amazon, which makes them the single largest print outlet in the world per store (counting them as one store), and about 75 % of ebooks are sold through Amazon.
Update 2: Andrew Savikas of O'Reilly Publishing (that has 650 ebooks posted on it) is highly complimentary about the Scribd Store:
To learn more about Read an E-Book Week, and to keep up with the ebook stores, authors, and publishers offering discounts and freebies in this year's event, check out the Deals and Steals section over on the Read an E-Book Week website.
Various ebook stores, newspaper sites, MobileRead, and TeleRead are atwitter about the changes the Agency Model will bring.
Other optimisations of Sony's are largely about hooking you into Sony services: Sony Video Unlimited is a movie store that lets you rent and buy digital movies; Music Unlimited is a Spotify - like streaming service; and Reader by Sony is an ebook reader that also handily nudges you towards buying books from the Sony Reader store.
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Another free mobile game developing ebook that help designers to learn about mobile game development, hidden techniques, SDk's and how to publish on mobile app stores.
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