Sentences with phrase «attempt at an ebook»

«Originally, I had put my ebooks up on Amazon because they were the only game in town, and I had some relative success with Amazon,» says Andre of her early attempt at ebook distribution of her titles.

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Well this is interesting but it is at least Microsoft's 3rd attempt to get into the ebook market, and one that's perhaps 8 - 10 years too late.

Assuming an agent / publisher's vetting, continue the print career (if you have one), while attempting to negotiate for your erights, or at least a higher ebook royalty... WHILE at the same time using ebooks to get out previous work, or recent work that went nowhere with your agent but was considered salable (as with my thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, now on Kindle and soon all the formats), and also perhaps some new work targeted for ebook format only.

A few times a year I'll find myself in a conversation with Laura Brady or some other expert in the world of #eprdctn and I'll attempt to explain how different the world of EPUB / ebook support looks when you review content and identify support gaps at a place like Kobo.

As more and more authors now attempt to go back to their publishers to gain access to the rights to their unpublished digital books, Rowling enjoyed smooth sailing in the world of ebooks as she had the foresight to keep those rights at a time when digital books were unheard of.

Virtually all books that are out of copyright are already available for free across the internet at various sites in most formats and you can use several apps to convert them into the Kindle ebook format.I can not support any attempt by Amazon to start charging for books that are already free.I do support the concept of a subscription based ebook service however and encourage all publishers to enter into such an agreement as quickly as possible before they become completely irrelevant.

The Kindle Voyage is Amazon's latest ebook reader and is their first attempt at what would be considered a premium ereader when compared to other Kindles.

Independent booksellers have been at the forefront of the attempts to bridge the gap between paper versus pixel, with initiatives like in - store ebook... [Read more...]

Independent booksellers have been at the forefront of the attempts to bridge the gap between paper versus pixel, with initiatives like in - store ebook tutorials for customers, while some publishers like Algonquin have experimented with providing the digital edition bundled with the print edition on individual titles.

Among the accusations the DoJ will now bring up in court is that Penguin was actually very instrumental in arranging the «agency model» with Apple in an attempt to force the price of ebooks higher than they were currently being sold for, namely, that Amazon was purchasing the ebooks at the original wholesale price and selling them for a marginal profit — or in some cases, an actual loss, which it is allowed to do as long as it can afford to — in order to sell Kindle e-reader devices.

The chair of the Society of Authors, Tom Holland, has hit out at publishers» attempt to seize control over electronic rights, calling ebook deals that lock authors in for the duration of copyright «not remotely fair».

Yet within the industry, there are also those attempting to explore subscription models, and in significantly different ways: Angry Robot offers its readers the opportunity to buy everything they publish over a six - or twelve - month period — a minimum of 12 or 24 ebooks — at a discount of a third on the cost of buying each book individually.

So just by looking at the dynamic nature of eBooks, it's actually quite easy to realize why it's a futile attempt to try and reproduce the exact same «look and feel» you get on a print book when creating eBooks.

Apple's software approach to delivering ebooks to their store is rather burdensome and convoluted; it puts this attempt at risk in a specific way, but Homeward, I: The Game Piece is now available though the iTunes store.

Is this their attempt at stalling the eBook revolution, by making consumers pay more for the convenience of a download?

(And with that noted, we could speculate as to whether any publisher attempt to standardize eBook sales at $ 9.99 would have been successful, especially as Amazon was encouraging self - publishing both as revenue stream for it and as leverage with publishers to drive down individual unit sales of eBooks.

I think Amazon taking a moment to opine that authors should get 35 % of revenues for their eBooks is a nice bit of trying to rally authors to their point of view by drawing their attention away from Amazon's attempt to standardize all eBook pricing at a price point that benefits Amazon's business goals first and authors secondarily, if at all.

Amazon's focus on ebooks might not matter particularly for a traditional publishing venture (although I think all publishers today should be at least thinking about establish online communities), but Kindle Worlds is attempting to attract the fan communities, who not only write, but also interact and read, online.

The Pandigital Novel Personal eReader is Pandigital's first attempt at a monochrome ebook reader instead of a ereader / tablet hybrid.

The Pandigital Novel Personal eReader is Pandigital's second ebook reader, and is their first attempt at an electronic paper ereader.