Sentences with phrase «debate over the ebook»

There has been much debate over the ebook pricing dispute that's emerged between retail giant Amazon and Hachette, a large multinational publisher.

With the advent of technology, the debate over eBooks and their paper printed versions are common.

Not exact matches

The issue of ebook piracy, or digital piracy in any form, is the topic of many debates all over the world.

2 min readOver the past week, debate has intensified over the practice of reselling eBooks.

Digital royalties have been one of the major sticking points in the debate over traditional vs. self - publishing, with many people (even from the traditional publishing world) arguing that big publishers should raise digital royalties on ebooks to at least 50 percent.

The debate over whether e-version intellectual property should have the same price tag as «hard copy» intellectual property wars on, but the fact is that eBooks have been downpriced since their inception, and significantly so.

«People often confuse an agency helping its clients publish their titles to ebooks with the agency becoming a publisher themselves,» says Deidre Knight, president of the Knight Agency, who has recently been the target of some harsh criticism in the debate over the acceptable role of a literary agency in terms of digital publishing.

Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their authors over with royalties an never give advances.

As the founder of self - publishing platform Smashwords predicted that «indie ebooks will account for 50 % of ebook sales by 2020», and as debate rages over whether self - published writers should be allowed to call themselves professional authors, Berkoff announced that he would be joining the self - publishing «revolution».

The debate is heating up over how much ebooks should sell for on Amazon.

Used ebooks are a hot topic right now, with Apple and Amazon each pursuing a patent over reselling digital content and as a result sparking a debate on the legality, ethics, and morality of a second - hand marketplace for products that don't decay.

Publishers are right when they say there's a role for them in an ebook world... Although authors will continue to self - publish, the debate that matters in the future is what the basket of services will be that authors require and what will be the right price for them... good covers, changing covers, dynamic pricing, constantly improved metadata, monitoring to catch glitch take - downs, as well as developmental editing, line - editing, copy - editing, and proofreading... The lines are drawn for that discussion and the opinions are really all over the lot.

The debate about ebooks and digital being the future IS over.

I have spent the past three and a half months working as an ebooks assistant for an Oxford based Christian publishing house producing books that aim to illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, and question the Christian faith in non-fiction and fiction offerings, and with over 300 ebook titles already selling on all major retailer / online portals.

Debate over what the «correct» price should be for eBooks is ongoing.

Much debate over on Richard Charkin's blog this week about Andrew Marr's piece in Friday's Guardian entitled Curling up with a good ebook.

In the indie book world, the debate still rages over ebook distribution: should I go wide or go exclusive with KU?

While we may have solved the debate over whether or not ebooks will cause the downfall of literary civilization and while many more books are available in e-book form, we are a long way from winning here.