It's called Matchbook, and
it allows authors and publishers to agree to give e-books away at a huge discount to anyone who bought the physical book.
Ganxy also
allows authors and publishers to track where their sales are coming from.
Findaway Voices is to Findaway what ACX is to Audible: a platform that
allows authors and publishers to create and sell content in audiobook format.
This simple widget
allows authors and publishers to increase views of their books and
The Digital Text Platform allows authors and publishers to release books in English, French and German through the Kindle store.
The Digital Text Platform allows authors and publishers to release books...
The feature also
allows authors and publishers to get the books into the hands of non-reviewers (i.e., regular readers), who are then encouraged to post a review, usually before the book's publication date.
But they're also a huge benefit to readers, both because of the free borrowing highlighted in the next article and because KDP Select
allows the authors and publishers to offer the thousands of -LSB-...]
Amazon also offers a self - publishing platform that
allows authors and publishers to format and upload their own books to the Kindle Store.
It takes some of the most important elements of HTML5 and CSS3 and
allows authors and publishers to make great content.
GoodeReader spoke with Jason Freeman of the startup site Libboo, a platform that
allows authors and publishers to submit their titles for discovery.
GoodeReader covered the news this week that ebook distribution platform Ganxy
allows authors and publishers to more easily bundle their ebooks, but that is only one of the features for bookselling.
«A short 90 - day commitment
allows authors and publishers to experiment at very low risk.
The technology of e-reading
allows authors and publishers to incorporate these features into... [Read more...]
Although, this could be a preeptive move to combat Google Editions, which
allows authors and publishers to DIRECTLY sell eBooks from their website and eliminate the 2nd party.
While there are clear steps, benefits, and drawbacks to the distinctly separate models of self - publishing and traditional publishing, hybrid publishing
allows authors and publishers to take what they want from each model in order to create a tailored, innovative approach to publishing, which offers mutual benefits to all parties involved.
This simple widget
allows authors and publishers to increase views of their books and potentially increase their sales by placing a sample of the book directly onto their website rather than having potential readers go to the Amazon page to read a sample of the book.
Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based on sales ranking; partnered with the new Pricing Manager which
allows authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.
Sponsored Book Review Program In addition to the services we may provide for General Submissions, Portland Book Review's Sponsored Book Review Program is a service that
allows authors and publishers to receive an honest review of the book with a guaranteed review on our website (www.portlandbookreview.com).
SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Oct. 31, 2013 --(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon today announced a new program for Kindle in the US and UK that
allows authors and publishers to reach more readers in a compelling way: Kindle Countdown Deals.
It is an innovative tool to
allow author and publisher to become more reader centric.
IngramSpark helps close the gap between independent publishing and traditional publishing by
allowing authors and publishers access to the same global book distribution and quality enjoyed by traditional publishers at prices self - publishers can afford.
In the last few years, Amazon and Barnes & Noble began ushering in a program that
allowed authors and publishers... [Read more...]
Allow authors and publishers the opportunity to start marketing the book earlier since the production and distribution process can take a long time.
This was brought about when Amazon, under pressure from the Authors Guild,
allowed authors and publishers to disable text - to - speech in their materials if they wished.
MatchBook fixes this problem by
allowing authors and publishers to bundle their print and digital books as one sale.
For those interested, the tool is available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000765261 Thanks again, Mark, for
allowing authors and publishers to upload their own ePub files.
Our new library pricing option will
allow authors and publishers to control library pricing.
Not exact matches
Some scientists
and publishers say that journals should not
allow authors to recommend reviewers in the first place.
But Dekker says Gold OA acknowledges that
publishers provide a valuable service —
and a problem with Green OA is that many
publishers allow authors to self - archive a new paper only after a months - long embargo.
The policy makes rights sharing with
publishers and self - archiving the default, while
allowing faculty to waive Harvard's license on a case - by - case basis, at the
author's discretion.
I got a free consultation from a lawyer about a contract I was being offered by a
publisher and he gave me two key pieces of advice: an audit clause means they have nothing to hide
and allows you as an
author to play IRS
and look at their books if you think you're being cheated (an expensive process, but a good
publisher wouldn't be afraid of you using it)
and believe their BBB rating if they have one.
At the moment, at least in the ones I have seen, a lower level of sales only
allows the
author to «ask» for their rights back
and the
publisher can cure.
The truth has always been that most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has
allowed authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents
and publishers think they want to read.
It would also
allow amazon to set up a second hand market place
and provide a counter point to
publishers who are enriching themselves at the expense of consumer
and authors both.
Google is planning on launching a new mobile feature for smartphones that will
allow publishers and authors to instantly sell e-books at the click of a button.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Ingram Content Group today announces the acquisition of Aer.io, a service that
allows publishers, retailers
and authors to sell
and fulfill print
and digital books directly to readers via their websites, blogs
and social networks.
I went to an
author talk by a trad pubbed
author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't
allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the
publisher.
Having already surrendered the
publisher - reader relationship
and knowing how difficult it will be to regain traction in that arena, to
allow Amazon to insert itself between the
author and the
publisher would be fatal.
My latest
Publishers Weekly column announces the launch - date for my long - planned «Shut Up and Take My Money» ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for their publishers, selling their ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25 % the publisher gives back to them later in
Publishers Weekly column announces the launch - date for my long - planned «Shut Up
and Take My Money» ebook platform, which
allows traditionally published
authors to serve as retailers for their
publishers, selling their ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25 % the publisher gives back to them later in
publishers, selling their ebooks direct to their fans
and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25 % the
publisher gives back to them later in royalties.
An open - ended clause that would
allow the
publisher to spend profligately on producing a new edition
and debit the amount from the
author's royalties should be avoided if at all possible.
POD
and electronic publishing is
allowing authors to become both writer
and publisher and electronic distribution is
allowing readers to find more work from their favorite writers, often either new work, dangerous work, or work long out of print..
As the deadline draws near for
authors and publishers to opt out of a proposed legal settlement
allowing Google Inc. to forge ahead with plans to scan millions of books, more opponents of the landmark deal are stepping forward,
and the local literary world is growing more perplexed.
Picture this: In the future, as the risks of publishing shift from the
publisher to the
author,
publishers will be able to invest in technologies that
allow them to bypass
authors completely, developing sophisticated algorithms to scrape their content from the Internet, repurpose
and repackage it for non-discriminating readers,
and charge advertisers fistfuls of money for their wandering eyeballs!
There's a good chance we'll see this trend continue, as it
allows publishers to sign on lesser - known
authors and test the product with less risk before moving forward with a physical product.
We have a lot of prove as
publishers, but we do also have an infrastructure
and a team
and computer systems that
allow us to help
authors in important ways.
If readers can accept that it's important that
authors and publishers profit from the sale of a book since it's their profit that
allows them to continue this great service of providing books, then everyone can be happy.
ePub creation
allows for a ton of flexibility
and different
publishers /
authors have different methodologies.
This new capability
allows publishers or
authors to upload their own professionally formatted ePub files for sale at the Smashwords store,
and for distribution to the Smashwords retail distribution... [Read more...]
All of the Big Six
publishers who had previously
allowed their titles to be borrowed through OverDrive's catalog to public libraries pulled their digital editions in 2011 amid concerns about ebook piracy
and the interests of the
authors.