On a separate note, JD Nixon's book - Heller - is currently listed as Book of the Week
at iBookstore.
First, take a look
at the iBookstore Asset Guide for Apple's current specification.
Books
at iBookstore are protected by Apple's own DRM (Digital Rights Management)-- FairPlay that prevents duplication of books.
Selections
at the iBookstore were greatly improved this year when Random House Inc., publisher of Stieg Larsson and John Grisham among others, agreed to sell through Apple after resolving differences over pricing.
I hope this provides you with an overview of the pieces and parts that are necessary to publish your book
at the iBookstore!
I've been able to see the progress and the reviews on B&N and Amazon, but I can't see what's happening
at the iBookstore - my current budget doesn't allow for an i anything.
The world's largest publisher, Random House can now take comfort from the fact that their e-books can now be seen listed
at iBookstore, opening up the... [Read more...]
If you don't sell many copies
at the iBookstore, then it could turn out that, over the lifetime of the book, you'll do better with Smashwords.
Apple, for instance, gives you 70 percent of the proceeds for sales
at its iBookstore; Barnes & Noble provides 65 percent of the list price of e-books priced from $ 2.99 to $ 9.99 that are sold on its online store.
Down
at the iBookstore, it looks like The Walking Dead have taken over; gone are the multiple issues of My Little Pony that usually share the space.
«E-book sales grew 100 % last year
at the iBookstore and it had over 100 million customers,» Moerer said, per Publisher's Weekly.
Not exact matches
Dover also offers eBook versions of thousands of titles, available
at a variety of online retailers, including the Apple
iBookstore, Google, and Amazon.
At least monthly, Apple bounces one of my ebooks because I am using what they told me to use, i.e. the
iBookstore, and now they don't allow that.
All of my books can be found online
at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the Apple
iBookstore, Google eBookstore, Diesel Books, Books A Million, Sony as well as other retailers and libraries.
There is no cost
at all to upload a file to Kindle, B&N, Kobo,
iBookstore, and Smashwords (which then gets your story out to Sony and others).
The minimum criteria are: - ISBN (except: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Casa del Libro)- a proper copyright page - quality book cover in jpg - format (note: the
iBookstore requires a width of
at least 1.400 pixels) The requirements do not reflect a judgment of the quality, marketability or topic of your eBook.
We're looking
at sales of Smashwords - distributed titles aggregated from the Apple
iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Baker & Taylor, Kobo, Diesel, the Smashwords store, as well as future channels we add.
Titles also go up each month
at the Apple
iBookstore, ARe, Kobo Books, etc..
Titles also go up each month
at the Apple
iBookstore, ARe, Kobo Books, OmniLit, etc..
Taking the witness stand
at the antitrust trial between Apple and the DOJ on Wednesday, Apple executive Keith Moerer revealed that the company obtained a 20 % share of the e-book market shortly after launching its
iBookstore in 201, and has maintained that share in the two years since.
At Smashwords, as of this writing, we distribute to 32 Apple
iBookstores.
Here's what we tell our clients: your best look
at your eBook sales is by reviewing your eBook distribution accounts with KDP, Nook Press and
iBookstore.
Any epub published through Lulu will continue to be distributed to the
iBookstore and other channels (
at the author's discretion of course).
Mark Coker presents Author R. L. Mathewson On the Secrets to Her Success posted
at Smashwords Blog, saying, «This author's book was selling a respectable 5 or 6 copies a day
at the Apple
iBookstore, and then a single update of her cover image sparked an explosive increase in sales, topping out
at over 1,500 copies a day.
Self - publishing authors will be able to offer their titles on Apple's
iBookstore for the iPad
at almost no cost, potentially breaking down the barriers for independent writers who want to sell their work across the globe.
The
iBookstore continues to be dominated by My Little Pony, and interestingly, it's the only platform where this shows up
at all.
You can get your gratis copy
at from any eBook retailer: Booksamillion, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple
iBookstore, Kobo, Google or Sony.
Carla King presents Blurb Offers New Tools for Color Book Authors posted
at PBS MediaShift, saying, «Blurb recently added an offset color book printing service, warehousing and fulfillment, distribution to Amazon.com and Apple's
iBookstore, with rumors of Ingram distribution to come soon.
I am looking to publish «Poem Packages» on the
iBookstore — 6 - 9 poems / song lyrics that all center on a genre / specific content / style, ex: «Love
at a Distance» or «Friendship during Turmoil» — so it's not a full book, but as a result I don't expect to receive more than a dollar (closer to $ 0.25 - $ 0.50) per sale of each «package.»
If you haven't already done so, look
at publishing on Kobo Writing Life and
iBookstore (through Bookbaby / Smashwords) because they are entering new markets faster than Amazon.
In addition to selling books
at its own online store with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's
iBookstore, the Sony eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.
Kobo and
iBookstore swept out over the planet and now have stores in
at least 50 countries each.
Also on January 11, 2010, Apple separately emailed to Penguin and two other Publisher Defendants charts showing how the Publisher Defendant's bestselling e-books would be priced
at $ 12.99 — the ostensibly maximum price under Apple's then - current price tier proposal — in the
iBookstore.
If you go to Smashwords
at http://smashwords.com you'll see their distribution partners on their home page as Apple
iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony Reader Store, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store.
ISBN Number: We issue your book an ISBN number so your book can be listed for sale
at apple
ibookstore and many other bookstores that require an ISBN.
All along, Apple has maintained that it began the
iBookstore simply to meet the needs of consumers and that each of the five publishers investigated by the DoJ had separately decided to switch to a different system of pricing, all of which resulted in Amazon no longer being able to sell bestselling ebooks
at $ 9.99.
When Apple was going to launch the
iBookstore they convinced all of the head honchos
at the largest publishing companies to standardize e-book pricing.
Although the lack of new books
at all on the
iBookstore is pitiful, things may change towards the end of the month when the iPad sees more international exposure.
Exclusivity — Our eBooks are only available on manning.com, in the Apple
iBookstore, and
at Safari Books Online.
This makes it such that until new deals can be struck with assorted retailers and the Big 5, a bunch of books will only be available
at the newly launched
iBookstore.
At the low price range, Kagi's bite of the sales price is about the same as that from Smashwords, Amazon, and the
iBookstore, but those customers are your customers.
Under current terms, the publishers would distribute approximately $ 162.25 million to customers who bought e-books
at any digital outlet between the
iBookstore's launch on April 1st, 2010 and May 21st, 2012.
It would seem
at this point that Apple rejected the app in an attempt to curb in competition for their own
iBookstore.
In addition, far more important than Apple's Style Guidelines (which
at least leads to an updated page) is their «
iBookstore Asset Guide» which is not even listed here.
As with similar sites, you can publish a digital book free, and then put it on sale
at many online retailers, including Smashwords's store, Apple's
iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Sony.
Apples
iBookstore comes in
at 9 with 14 votes and Books on Board with 13 votes.
On January 24th, publisher Toni Weisskopf said in her section of Baen's forums, «I am able to announce informally that we'll be selling books
at the Apple
iBookstore pretty soon.
Major publishers are going to begin dispensing refunds to people who purchased eBooks from Apples
iBookstore at agency level prices.
«Apple has not licensed Adobe Content Server for their
iBookstore,» Nick Bogaty, senior business development manager
at Adobe, told Computerworld.
Thank you to Lulu, who lead the world and now thank you to Apple
iBookstore who have caught up
at last and is striding abreast!