Sentences with phrase «bigger than your ebook»

As publishers and libraries seek to reinvent themselves for the digital age, the opportunities are so much bigger than ebooks, and it kills me to see the energy, passion, and resources that are being spent focusing on such a narrow piece of the big picture.

Isn't that interesting that your print book sales are bigger than your eBook sales.

Not exact matches

Uli is also the co-founder of Big Boost Media, which helps people stay current with the changing publishing market and do more than simply produce and distribute great eBooks.

Pan Macmillan has been punching above its weight in digital, getting a bigger market share of ebooks in the UK than it had of print books.

I am leery of big companies, but any time I've had a problem with one of my ebooks, I've been on the phone live with an Amazon representative in less than a minute, and the problem is taken care of right away... or if it isn't, they keep in direct contact with me until it is.

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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.

I've heard figures from big publishers stating that many new releases sell more ebooks than print books.

Face it: with more than 4,000 new ebooks published daily, the chance that your novel will sell big is slim.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Keeping up on current trends, Taylor plans to create an eBook version of Bigger Than the Widget next.

-- Across the entire US ebook market, ebooks without ISBNs now command a greater share of consumer ebook purchases, reading time, and author earnings than all of the AAP's 1,200 publishers put together, including the Big Five.

In less than two years, in fact, the market share of paid unit sales between indie (mainly self - publishing, but includes small presses) and Big 5 eBooks has more than inverted.

The top «big time» publishers now produce less than a quarter of eBook purchases on Amazon, while indies are close to 45 %.

The «big idea,» of course, is that authors should view publishing ebooks on Kindle from the long - term, rather than the short - term, point of view.

A new ebook platform has been born, only this one has bigger goals than just digitizing books.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

The Salak Group, Inc. and Bright Launch LLC have joined together to form Big Boost Media Group to build ebooks as a business tool, rather than just for entertainment, information, or learning.

In addition, sales figures in The Canadian Book Market do not include ebook sales, nor online sales of print books, so the overall book market may be healthier than reflected.Although Indigo suffered some big loses, the company is still bullish on their future.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

is there a ebook service cheaper than amazon that has big name titles?

Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger than paperbacks and ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.

That means the truth, pending evidence to the contrary, is the big 5 NEVER price ebooks more than print books.

However, the 2016 Global ebook report shows that for some of the big publishers in Germany, ebooks already make up more than 10 % and even up to 15 % of their total book sales (source).

So the question is, is an ebook priced higher than a print book due to Big 5 setting their ebook prices substantively higher than what was set by the market (okay, fine, by Amazon, mostly) or is it due to Amazon's standard discounting practices?

The biggest selling ebook on the Kindle this year is the erotic novel by EL James, «Fifty Shades Of Grey», which sold more than 2 million copies in just four months.

Well as for how big the market is — I don't have any hard and fast numbers for you but Amazon sold more ebooks than paper books this year, and Smashwords (an ebook distributor) publishes over 70,000 ebooks and counting.

I also don't know if you've been following my point about a single source controlling pricing now (Amazon) vs six publishers and two major retailers interacting (the big six plus Apple and Amazon), but I can't help believing that leaving the entire process of ebook pricing and market setting in the hands of single source is less desirable than allowing all the market players to interact.

But that's how the economics generally work out between ebook readers and tablets: E Ink screens are much more costly than LCD screens, and when it comes right down to it the screen is the biggest difference between these two devices.

I think that's definitely something more authors should do: explore the possibilities of eBooks to create something bigger than the story.

I can believe the «Big 5» publishers would see lower ebook sales since they charge so much, but there are way more options available than what they offer.

The big five publishers in the last calendar year have managed to hang on to more than half of all ebook sales at Apple and Barnes & Noble Nook.

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.

With dedicated e-ink readers such as the Kindle ($ 69) or the Kindle Paperwhite ($ 119) being much cheaper than that, the choice could boil down to a cheaper but a bigger full - fledged ebook reader or a smaller and hence more portable smartphone add - on that costs a bit more.

All the searches on Amazon for Big Five books show an agency - priced ebook with a highly - discounted print book, often cheaper than the ebook, alongside of it.

Certainly, there are more indie than Big Five authors earning above minimum wage in this daily snapshot (486 vs. 302), but to know the probability of hitting the right place on the list, we would need to know the distribution of publisher types across all of the ebooks in the selected genres.

The «Big Five» purposely jack up the price of their ebooks in an effort to make ebooks less attractive than their cash - cow print books.

A new report claims that self - published authors have surged to 31 % of ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more ebook royalties than writers published by the «Big five» traditional publishers.

Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.»

But we can be pretty sure that Amazon sells ebooks more successfully than the market as a whole, because Kindle has the biggest installed base and Amazon has the most book customers.

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».

And ebooks will have a much bigger market share at that point — and the way we browse and buy them could look drastically different than it does now.

Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.

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The prices for Big 5 published ebooks have risen quite steadily, rather than a sudden surge since the return to agency.»

Digital Publishing is becoming big business and ebooks have gained more visibility this year than any other.

While ebooks right now make up no more than just 2 percent of their total collection in some of the biggest libraries in the world, they have already shown their eagerness to adopt to the new emerging technology, something that they believe is akin to their basic survival itself.

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

Fewer than 700 Big Five authors and fewer than 500 small - or - medium publisher authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their hardcover, paperback, audio and ebook editions combined.