Macmillan ups the number of
backlist eBooks available for lending to ~ 11,000.
Not exact matches
Starting today, over 800
backlist eBook titles will be
available in English.
Smashwords joined up with OverDrive to make indie authors» titles
available in libraries around the world, and Simon & Schuster provided access to a massive
backlist of
ebooks to... [Read more...]
All O'Reilly
ebooks released in 2013 are now
available in EPUB 3 format, and in the coming weeks, we will be updating and rereleasing our
backlist ebooks in EPUB 3 as well.
Most of the
eBooks available are considered
backlist titles, which means they are older and have been around awhile.
McGraw - Hill Professional is offering more than 4,500 new and
backlist eBooks,
available to lend on multiple devices.
Smashwords joined up with OverDrive to make indie authors» titles
available in libraries around the world, and Simon & Schuster provided access to a massive
backlist of
ebooks to two of the top subscription - based reading platforms.
Blackhall aims to have all its new trade titles
available in
ebook format by the end of 2011 and is working on a plan for its
backlist.
A lot of established traditionally - published midlist authors are seeing huge success (as well as increased income) by making their
backlist available as self - published
ebooks.
«Examining the proportion of the Booker
backlist digitized prior to 1940, Bilbary found that the number falls to 11 per cent, with only one title from the first Man Booker winner, P.H. Newby's archive
available as an
ebook.
Most publishers have enormous
backlists, built up over decades — if not centuries — and making these
available in
ebook formats is no quick or easy task.
In the past two years, Gollancz has not only made more than 2000 of its
backlist titles
available as
ebooks, but has also built a website, SF Gateway, to promote them.
Macmillan announced last week that it is adding its frontlist titles to its
backlist pilot for public libraries, making its complete
ebook catalog
available for the first time.
Hachette Book Group was making only its
backlist available; Macmillan and Simon & Schuster were not in the library
ebook business at all.
Another one of her comments that was clearly a big takeaway based on the Twitter chat was that the
ebook users want the authors»
backlist if it's
available.
My entire
backlist is
available either in print or
ebook format.
(More about why that happens in this post: KDP Select & Kindle Unlimited: Why
Ebooks Not Enrolled Are at a Disadvantage) In 2015, I found that I sold less of each title overall for my
backlist books (specifically my Emperor's Edge books, which are part of a series I completed over a year ago), most likely because the permafree Book 1 is being downloaded a lot less now — there are more free titles
available at Amazon and elsewhere, and also I believe KU has siphoned off some of the deal seekers who used to peruse the free lists.
Effective January 1, 2016, all Penguin and Random House adult and children's frontlist and
backlist ebook titles will be
available under the one -
ebook, one - user, no loan cap perpetual licensing model that has long been employed by Random House.
While it is true that the number of
available ebooks with sales continues to decline — from a high of 88 % in 2014 to just 54 % in 2016 — some of this might be due to the growing number of digitized
backlist titles.
Possible factors contributing to these changes could be the continued digitization of
backlist titles, thereby increasing the overall volume of
available ebooks in the market, as well as the 2.1 % decline in
ebook sales between 2015 and 2016 in the Canadian market, according to regular consumer surveying by BookNet Canada.
In 90 days an author's
backlist works can be brought to market with new digital covers and promotional materials and made
available widely on all
ebook reading devices.
Harlequin emailed back right away to say that all frontlist and
backlist ebooks would be
available in every format, NOT JUST KINDLE's proprietary format which is
available only to Kindle purchasers.
Oyster claims all new releases, including runaway bestseller The Girl On the Train by Paula Hawkins and pre-orders such as Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman and Jonathan Franzen's Purity, are now
available through its
ebook shop, plus
backlist titles.