Not exact matches
Also being asked to accept significant changes are authors and publishers,
as Amazon and other
electronic retailers attempt to rewrite the way
book sales dollars are divided up.
The disappearance of Borders likely will hurt e-book
sales as well, since some e-book readers visit bookstores to see what
books they might like to read before buying the
electronic version, Norris added.
If Dymocks posts an ebook for
sale on its website, it will have done enough under the contract to earn its exclusive right to the work worldwide for the author's lifetime plus 70 years — and not just in
book form: all subsidiary rights such
as film, and other
electronic forms are included.
There's a lot that publishing
as a whole still needs to work out about territorial boundaries in a world of
electronic books and
sales.
After another year or so, (note, we were about three years in at this point) what started to become clear
as electronic books exploded in
sales was that readers were buying
electronic books in place of mass market paperbacks, the pocket - sized
books that sold around $ 7.99.
Even putting the loss of physical
sales aside, the customers and community members we've talked to who have bought e-book readers or who buy e-
books have been largely guided in what to read by their online sources; they've restricted or pared down their reading lists to accommodate what they can get online; and they've stopped giving
books (in physical or
electronic form)
as gifts to their friends and their children.
Advances are way, way down
as the paper
book sales collapse and the
electronic book sales are not counted much at all by agents and writers except indie writers.
If a library can buy one
electronic copy of a
book being used
as a course text with a unlimited multiple simultaneous user license, then no student in the class has to go buy the
book and the publisher loses all those
sales.
E-
book technologies will increase the awareness of titles and stimulate
book sales, while new portable e-reading services will boost
electronic book sales in selected countries such
as Japan, the US, and the UK,» says Ujjwal Doshi, a lead analyst at Technavio for publishing and advertising research.
Additionally, B&N is not really out to make a profit on the hardware
sales as their business is and remains...
books — whether they are
electronic or not.
The vast majority of traditional - published
books follow the basics I laid out above and price their
electronic books to a profit and loss calculation, trying to predict
sales and time of
sales just
as I did above.
The worry they (legacy) seem to have is the
electronic format «stealing» their print
sales... I might have that wrong though... but that worry is also irrelevant
as well because the
sale of a
book is the
sale of a
book... right?
As the number of mobile phones and
electronic tablets continues to grow, applications — probably even more than
books — have an opportunity to experience unbelievable spikes in
sales over a very short time.
Amazon.com said on Monday that its Kindle
electronic book reader posted its best
sales yet in the month of November,
as rivals struggle with fulfilling their customer orders.
(9) Divide a transaction into multiple transactions,
as determined by the commissioner, such
as by attempting to sell or selling any publication, including, but not limited to, any
book, pamphlet, or
electronic or computer guide, related in any way to improving a buyer's credit record, history, or rating, to a buyer and, directly or indirectly, through any affiliate, subsidiary, related person, or otherwise, providing services to the buyer to assist him in utilizing or implementing the information or directions contained therein, unless all charges and fees related to such
sale and service combined do not exceed the bona fide costs for publishing the copy of such publication.
As we have posted numerous times recently, Your Pet Space will be building a collection of pet - related
electronic books for
sale on our site.