While a book layout designer may be able to create the text -
based eBook edition (and some may offer that as an additional service), usually choosing someone who can do simple textbook formatting in a Word document will usually be less expensive.
Not exact matches
The Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc., a leading publisher
based in San Francisco, is running a kindle
ebook promotion that is the first of its kind — they are giving everyone who purchases the Kindle
edition of the Amazon memoir Inside the Giant Machine: An Amazon.com Story the print version of the book for free.
This is partly out of experimental interest to see if this improves my numbers any, and partly just because I've been hand - selling the
ebook editions for five bucks each — and bringing the
base price down to $ 4.99 USD is more in line with that.
BookLogix will consult with author to determine the selling and list price for the print and
eBook editions, assisting the author in determining the price of the book
based on genre and page count.
For
ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited
edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription -
based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lacked.
Because we need to show people that good quality content is worth paying for, I would be against free, advert -
based editions, which would devalue and cheapen
ebooks.
While Kno has already seen laudable results from its recently released interactive, feedback -
based student study dashboard Kno Me, Kno's Advance platform allows publishers to create an
ebook edition from PDFs or print
editions of their books while maintaining the scale of the book.
These three forms work together to allow publishers to create a digital
edition in minutes
based on a print file, while Enhancer and Assessment allow Kno's team to incorporate so many of the features that users have come to expect from fully interactive
ebooks.
One of the most energetically expanding startups in publishing, Vancouver -
based Shelfie — which began life in 2013 as BitLit Media — has some 1,400 participating publishers now in its
ebook bundling scheme, which uses smart phone apps (Android and iSO) to capture the interests of print - book owners and offer them
ebook editions of those print books.
To date, the format wars in
eBooks have undermined the most important feature of a paper book, the ability to point to a part of the text on a certain page of a specific
edition, which is the
basis of academic and professional citation, which is the key to dialogue taking place through books.
As with just about everything Google does, Google
Editions takes a browser - centric, web -
based approach to the issue of
ebooks.
Even now, working with a conversion supplier I'm proud to partner with, who does a good job of stretching the ePub and Kindle formats, whenever we get our
eBooks back, we still often gaze misty - eyed at the print
edition and wonder where the design went and that's just on text -
based product.
And despite the recent fuss about the new partnership for
ebook sales between Google and the American Booksellers Association, it is inevitable that as
ebook sales rise, brick - and - mortar stores will decline and publishers will gradually lessen their investment both in the bookstore -
based physical distribution network and in print
editions.
The bestselling book and
basis for the Emmy award - winning documentary (letters read by Robert DeNiro, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Williams...)-- is now available in
ebook edition!
And despite the recent fuss about the new partnership for
ebook sales between Google (GOOG) and the American Booksellers Association, it is inevitable that as
ebook sales rise, brick - and - mortar stores will decline and publishers will gradually lessen their investment both in the bookstore -
based physical distribution network and in print
editions.
Yes, Digital
Editions fully supports Adobe Content Server DRM technology and is designed to work smoothly with existing library
eBook lending services
based on the Adobe Content Server infrastructure.
Or perhaps we'll end up with three versions: print
edition, verbatim
ebook edition, and interactive
ebook loosely
based on the print version.
Like an advance, the amount you receive per book sold (to a retailer at the wholesale price) will vary
based on many factors, although typically it will be on the smaller side — say 6.5 % to 10 % for print
editions (rates differ for paperbacks versus hardcovers) and 25 % for
eBooks.
I just feel that
eBook prices should not be set
based on other
editions of a book.
If you haven't yet taken the plunge to convert your print
edition to an
eBook, let today be the day you expand your reach and increase your audience
base.
Last week news started to spread that Adobe Digital
Editions version 4.0 — released about a month earlier in September — was actually an overactive and prolific snitch, reporting back to Adobe on a daily
basis about every
ebook title you downloaded, every ereader device you used, every page you skipped to, and even at what time, location and in what order.
Last week news started to spread that Adobe Digital
Editions version 4.0 — released about a month earlier in September — was actually an overactive and prolific snitch, reporting back to Adobe on a daily
basis about every
ebook title you downloaded, every ereader device you used, every page... [more]