Sentences with phrase «big ebook stores»

If you need some advice on how to become an indie - author, self - publish your ebooks and get them selling in the big ebook stores including Amazon's Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble's Nook Books, Apple's iBookstore and others, then this guide will help you.

While the biggest ebook stores generally top out at 100,000 to 300,000 titles, bookstore offer a far bigger collection, usually more than a million titles.

EPUB can be read on Apple devices, B&N Nook, and via apps like Adobe Digital Editions and gives you access to the biggest ebook stores on the market.

When you publish your book through BookBaby, we will make it available on eSentral.com, the biggest eBook store in Southeast Asia.

The flip side is that the Kindle store is one of the biggest ebook stores in the world, holding over 1 million books and several thousand free ones.

Kindle is the biggest eBook store in terms of sales (the majority of iPad users shop for eBooks in the Kindle store), and marketing in the Amazon store is driven entirely by sales.

Not exact matches

eReader was bought by Fictionwise, one of the biggest commercial ebook sellers, in January 2008, then bought by US bookseller Barnes and Noble in July 2009 to form the basis of the Barnes and Noble ebook store.

Like the revolution which happened in the book industry, from book stores to ebooks, from big and medium press publishers to indie publishing, the film industry is undergoing a similar revolution.

Story2Go, first interviewed by Good e-Reader at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, launched at the time with an inexpensive iOS app that allowed authors and creators to essentially build their ebooks with simple drag - and - drop and uploading features, then rely on the bigger guns to actually distribute the book to a variety of app stores.

Many big box retailers such as Best Buy and Walmart are continuing to sell Sony eBook Gift Cards, even though Sony closed their online store two years ago.

While Kindle takes up a big share of the ebook market, it's a good idea to have your book up in other stores as well, especially Apple iBooks.

You can easily publish your ebooks on the biggest online store Amazon for free.

Hopefully, the absence of some major authors from eBook stores will be temporary — but in the meantime, you could be forgiven for thinking that publishers really do want to hand all the cards to Amazon — they're the cheapest and, for whatever reason, they are now the ones with the biggest range of books, some of which UK readers can not, right now, buy electronically in a format compatible with their own devices.

And while they don't make a separate ebook or app for each comic, they do put them in the comiXology storefront, which is the biggest digital comics store in existence right now.

The Author Earnings Report looks at data from one store covering only 65 % of the ebook market which itself is only around 30 % of the bigger publishing market.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

The other big feature that Nook boasts, thanks to its connection to a chain of real book stores, is that you can stop by your local Barnes and Noble, chill out, and read any Nook ebook for free for an hour while connected to the store's Wi - Fi.

There are of course «traditional» book stores and online book retailers catering for Vietnamese readers, and despite the absence of four of the Big 5 western ebook retailers ebooks are also popular in the country.

There's a big wide ebook world out there beyond the USA and that's where stores like Kobo and Google Play are focussed.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

The company is setting its sights on being the world's biggest digital magazine store catering to the booming tablet market, but has also dropped hints about getting into the ebook business at a later stage.

Assembled by Howey with the help of an unnamed «Data Guy» from publicly - available positions of 120,000 titles on Amazon bestseller lists correlated with estimates of sales rates, the report suggests that self - published authors represent a quarter of the titles published electronically, earning 39 % of ebook revenues on the Kindle store, or «more... than Big five authors, combined».

There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.

We don't have 100 % coverage for all the books Sony has in it's eBook store simply because bestsellers, books from big publishers....

As a publisher of a social studies textbook for our state's history, in addition to the challenges described in this article, one of the biggest challenges we face is there is no standard way to do business with K - 12 schools because they vary in their technology deployment, how students access the ebooks (e.g. whether each student receives an account) and selling enhanced ebooks, note: not ePub3 or iBooks, in the App Store.

In plain - speak: Apple's supposed co-ordination of the major publishers drove up the price of eBooks and the profits of publishers and big stores like Barnes & Noble.

What I find interesting is that the publishers and stores are not making a bigger deal out the differences between their eBooks.

Amazon's Kindle Store is the biggest ebook retailer in the world and by quite a long way.

Chula Book Center, one of the biggest textbook stores in Thailand, is rapidly expanding their eBook business expecting to offer more than 1,000 eBooks at the end of this year according to Bangkok Post.

Google's eBook store is growing and with the internet power of Google behind it can only get bigger.

The ebook store includes titles from the big five publishing houses — Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster — along with a number of titles from Scholastic, Harlequin, Norton and Chronicle.

speaking as a reader not a second hand book store owner for once my biggest complaint about ebooks is the no share issue I bought my son the Hunger Games trilogy box set on - line - he couldn't wait a week and bought the ebook so great HE can read it on his ipad but the other 4 members of the household nope bad luck

That's the big problem in dealing with the everything store: Amazon uses the indie authors» ebooks as loss leaders.

Besides the big retailers, via PublishDrive your books can be published directly to Indian stores such as to Rockstand, one of the largest ebook stores in India.

With the biggest selection of any ebook store in the UK, you can shop more than 1 million books, including bestsellers and new releases.

Some users prefer to have a bigger control over an ebook collection, and want to physically store the files on the device they own.

This expansion will open new opportunities for indie authors to get their books on the shelves of those 640 big brick and mortar stores — but only for those whose eBook title has sold 1,000 copies in the last year.

AND NOW the work of the commoners on the site that Mark built will be available in the newest, hottest e-book store on the planet - the one where the Big Apple will sell ebooks to all the buyers smart enough to pick up an iPad and join the digital revolution.

This expansion will open new opportunities for indie authors to get their books on the shelves of those 640 big brick and mortar stores — but only for those whose eBook title has sold 1,000 copies in the last... [Read More]

Vearsa also gives your eBook visibility on some of the biggest app stores in the world like the subscription - based Playster digital streaming app, and Google Play, which reaches one billion android users in over 50 countries on multiple platforms, containing the world's largest ebookstore, offering over 5 million eBooks.

I came to find out which ereader was the best and instead got told which ebook store was the biggest.

The Biggest Selection Worldwide: Access the Kobo store featuring over 2.2 million eBooks plus, borrow the latest eBooks from public libraries or purchase from any store that supports the ePub standard.

The downside is that Sony's ebook store isn't as big as some of the others, and it doesn't offer as many options for newspaper and magazine subscriptions.

From Gardner's, the UK's biggest digital book store, to the Baker & Taylor catalog — BookBaby delivers eBooks to over 60 stores in 170 countries.

They want high ebook prices so that they can hang onto their outdated IP - dependent business model of selling paperbacks and hardcovers in big box brick & mortar stores for as long as possible.

but the ebook market is still tiny, so any discounts would be dependent on the relative power of the companies selling physical books — and indeed other things since the big six publishers are owned by multinational parent companies who sell lots of other things via these stores.

When your friends are handing over their hard - earned cash for an eBook from the big name stores (and moaning about the outrageous price for a book you can't even hold in your hands), you'll have instant access to more books than you could possibly read in a lifetime... and they won't cost you a single cent.

In February, we were able to announce that self - published authors are earning nearly as much as Big 5 authors combined when it comes to ebook sales on the Kindle Store.

For those of us with large collections of ebooks, the biggest improvement is that the PRS - 505 supports named «Collections» of books stored on the Memory Stick Duo and Secure Digital flash - memory cards.

Most of the big titles and authors are already on the store, and ebook prices are generally comparable with Amazon's.