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Best eBook platform • Format the eBook myself or hire an author services company?
Why shouldn't Kindle be
the best ebook platform for iPads (and Windows machines and BlackBerrys and God knows what else)?
Not exact matches
Bonuses include:
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Insight ADVANCE, the company behind the observation and coaching
platform used in schools and teacher preparation programs, invited me to develop an
ebook that explores research, tools, principles, and
best practices for providing inservice teachers feedback on their instructional performance.
What is the
best way to get my
ebook up on all the major
platforms?
Formerly the BlackBerry app only worked with audiobooks and now that it supports library
ebooks as
well, that makes four different mobile
platforms you can get free
ebooks from libraries with — Android, iPad / iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry — plus desktop computers of course.
The
best way to get your
ebook out up on all major
platforms is to spend an hour setting up accounts with Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Googlebooks and iTunes.
Good e-Reader first caught up with
ebook distribution
platform Red Shelf at the BookExpo America publishing event in New York, and sat down today with co-founder and CEO Greg Fenton to discuss what changes and updates the company has undergone in the last six months.
As library
ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the
best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different
platforms.
Overdrive revealed exclusively to
Good e-Reader at Book Expo America their new streaming video
platform that allows libraries to offer video in addition to
eBooks and audiobooks.
The makers of the app also informed they wish to evolve into the
best ebook reading app on the Windows
platform and have already planned several enhancements towards achieving that goal.
«We are launching our
ebook retail
platform and membership service targeting book clubs,» explained Librify co-founder and CEO Joanna Stone Herman in an interview with
Good e-REader.
Overdrive is
well known as the premier
eBook content distribution
platform that libraries use to facilitate the lending of digital books, audiobooks, videos and more.
The Bluefire Reader is one of the
best independent
ebook reading apps for the iPad, with its biggest selling point being that it uses the Adobe Digital Editions DRM
platform.
These authors will find their way to market via
ebook self - publishing
platforms, and once they learn they can do it
better, faster, more profitably and more enjoyably on their own, it'll be tougher and more expensive for publishers to win them back.
But with Google's
ebook platform floundering, Kobo all but pulling of the US, Barnes & Noble's ability to stay afloat a recurring concern, the only real player we can depend on is iBooks, which is doing increasingly
well despite its obvious drawbacks, or the growth of new direct sales
platforms by publishers.
Since 2007, she has been an author - marketer who has helped indie authors, as
well as the «Big 5» book publishers, reach new readers, increase
ebook sales and continue sustained
platform growth.
In the short term, the companies may feel it's imperative to slug it out over the
best platform for delivering and reading
ebooks.
My latest Publishers Weekly column announces the launch - date for my long - planned «Shut Up and Take My Money»
ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for their publishers, selling their
ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as
well as the 25 % the publisher gives back to them later in royalties.
The advancement of ePub3 is taking place at a glacial pace, while the device
platform creators such as Apple, Amazon and Google are doing nothing to create cross-
platform standards that will lead to
better eBooks.
As I'll spell out (see # 3 below), those two pieces of information (as
well as the size of your
platform) will be the biggest determining factors in setting a price for your
ebook.
Although dedicated devices may be used to read
eBooks, they may be read on other
platforms such as PDAs and personal computers as
well.
Amazon does a really
good job of putting their
eBooks on a number of different
platforms.
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So even if you're doing just one chapter or a short story, the table of contents is
best practice and more important, required, in at least some
ebook platforms.
It incorporates the
best functionality, being ePub3 at its core, and its output is designed to work on the
best platform available for
eBooks, a proper sized tablet.
The digital artwork file size for
ebook covers I create are
well below 2 megabytes when I generate a JPEG or PNG file, so file uploading to various publishing
platforms is usually not an issue.
Users of Kindle devices as
well as the Kindle app across mobile and desktop
platforms can check here for the free
eBook of the day.
The
best we can do is to make our
eBook collections findable via our library catalog, but that lacks the sophisticated search functionality of the individual
platforms themselves.
Since then, it's grown to encompass many
ebook platforms and includes free or extremely
good bargains on music downloads, games or any other item or promotion that catches my interest.
Included is an artwork file for your
ebook publishing
platform, as
well as high resolution artwork file with your front cover, back cover and spine.
The
ebook, with stories and interviews from some of the most
well - known names in Hollywood from both in front of the camera and behind it, is available now for $ 2.99 from most major digital retailers, with several more
platforms being added in the coming week.
On the other hand, the Big - 3
eBook platforms do a
good job selling books, and we have seen results from them with our digital prose line.
Self - published authors of genre fiction are a driving force in the
ebook market and so we are looking forward to offering Smashwords» 250,000 titles to all the users of the txtr
platform in 20 countries, alongside bestsellers from
well - known publishers.»
Under Chen's
platform, the reading consumers decide individually how much they will pay for a bundle of five
ebooks, as
well as decide how much of that price will go to the authors, to charity, or to running StoryBundle.
The point the distribution
platforms are making is that reader consumers are going to get tired of sifting through the 99cent spam «
ebooks» and get fed up with being duped by piracy masquerading as genuine titles, leading to a drop in
ebook sales in favor of «
good old fashioned» (re: reliable) print books.
New opportunities through periodical
platforms like Next Issue, PressReader, and Zinio, as
well as
ebook catalogs through Freading, Boopsie, and Smashwords» unprecedented distribution agreement with OverDrive have meant that not only do libraries have options for providing relevant formats to their patrons, but they also have competitive choices that can lead to
better budget options.
Incidentally, no other retail
ebook platform offers anywhere close to this many book categories, meaning when the book is uploaded elsewhere by the author or publisher, the options to describe the book accurately for
better discover can be pretty limited.
If you are selling your
ebook on non Amazon
platforms with
good results, then I'd say don't enroll in KDP Select.
Stanza and some others are very
good ebook readers for this
platform.
McGuire is the founder of the Pressbooks
platform, an open source content management system and book formatter that outputs designed books in all major publishing formats: PDF (for print and digital distribution), EPUB and MOBI
ebook formats, as
well as a fully native Web version of each book.
Pressbooks ($ 59 thru 3/31; normally $ 99): Using our self - service
platform to DIY, you can generate print interior files as
well as
ebook formats that meet complex, professional - standard design specs.
At this level, besides total book design, including print and
ebook formatting, you'll also get access to two of my premium online courses on book marketing and building an author
platform, my step - by - step book launch checklist, as
well as one month of publishing support... along with some book promotion graphics to make your book look awesome.
EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all platforms, as well as access to many smaller eBook retailers, may well be worth the
EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all
platforms, as
well as access to many smaller
eBook retailers, may well be worth the
eBook retailers, may
well be worth the cost.
Neonode has announced its latest
ebook touchscreen
platform which is
better known as zBook.
If they are not careful the core talent of the book trade may
well combine in new types of ventures — collectives and transparent relationships where writers and editors go into business together on a 50:50 basis and are enabled by web
platforms,
ebooks and print on demand... disintermediation of a more radical sort.
I wouldn't want to try self - publishing without a decent marketing plan and some kind of
platform, but there are some no - name authors doing
well with
ebooks.
Copy Editing, to Cover Design, to Interior Layout,
eBook creation, Advanced Reader Copies, Global Distribution, Ingram Catalog, Virtual Assistance, one year Membership in AuthorU.org, full registration at the Author U annual Extravaganza, one year membership in APSS, Author Photo Shoot, Crowdfunding
Platform, Printing Discounts,
Platform Strategy Session, National Top 10 Library or a National Top 10 Independent Bookstore sales campaign, One - on - One sales presentation to 20 buyers and Librarians across North America, BookBar in Colorado will carry book with 100 % of sales going to author, the Tattered Cover Press print package, entry into both the USA
Best Book Awards and International Book Awards, $ 300 in legal assistance.
Some online service companies work hard to automate some of these processes, which can work
well for the author who has lots of time and the interest in learning how to navigate online systems such as
ebook conversion
platforms.
Well, to be honest, it changes every time I get ready to do this, because the development of software,
platforms and everything about
ebooks changes so rapidly.