Additionally, most customers require a wide variety of
different eBook editions for different vendors (an EPUB for Google Play, an EPUB for Smashwords, a MOBI / KF8 for Amazon, etc.) and changing a single typo requires making a change to each and every one of those editions (a drudge of a task).
Not exact matches
Barnes & Noble
ebook is a standard EPUB file format, but it is
different from Adobe Digital
Editions EPUB books due to its own algorithm to bound books.
Because printed
editions have very
different layout requirements from
ebooks, there are extra costs associated with the cover and text sections of your book.
It's not essential that you have an ISBN for your
eBook, but if you do choose to have one, it's important that it's
different to any other
edition you have published before.
Since you need a separate one for each book format (
eBook, audiobook, paperback, hardcover,
different sizes,
editions, etc.), those numbers will go fast, so plan ahead.
Each day,
different titles will be steeply discounted in both
ebook and print
editions.
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.
It's tough to figure out which
ebooks are worthwhile because the reader comments on
different editions get blended together.
If you want to sell the German
edition of your book, putting it up on Amazon.de is probably a good idea (more on the
different ebook stores and distributors in Germany in a later post).
Note that the print
edition will have a separate ISBN from the
ebook edition so you'll need to send the formatter two
different files or pay for a correction later.
I've got a print and
eBook on Amazon that are
different editions of the same book.
One aspect that he spoke of was what he termed «enhanced hardcovers;» when the reader purchases the print
edition of a book, the
ebook could quite easily be included in the purchase, allowing the reader to choose the format he reads at
different times.
We show you four
different ways to copy
ebooks, using Calibre, Adobe Digital
Editions, Windows Explorer and the Kobo Desktop Software.
In this video we show you three
different ways to copy
ebooks to your Nook Color e-reader using Adobe Digital
Editions, Calibre and Windows Explorer.
So the hardcover version has a
different ISBN than the paperback version; the
eBook version carries a
different number than the large - print
edition, and so on.
Every
edition of a book has to have a separate ISBN, i.e. an
ebook will have a
different ISBN from a printed book, the ePub version has to have a
different number from the Kindle version etc. (Amazon do not require you to have an ISBN but if you wish your book to be recognised by your national library you will need one.)
The answer is yes again, and maybe take advantage of making all those changes you've noticed over the years and call it an «
ebook second
edition,» so everyone notices that there's something significantly
different.
This ISBN must be
different from the
eBook ISBN, if you chose to use an ISBN for your
eBook edition.
I've no idea what COGS means, but Steve is correct: many of the costs involved in producing a print
edition are replicated in
ebooks plus the costs of producing
different versions for
different platforms and testing them.
Therefore, it is advised to keep the content the same for the actual body of the
eBook for all
editions, but use
different back matter (and a
different copyright page) for the
different vendors.
If this is not the first
edition, and the
eBook is significantly
different, you should fill in the appropriate number.
About the DRM - free part: I bought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on Pottermore Shop yesterday and here's what I found: sending the book to my Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com accounts was fairly simple — and I was quickly able to read the book on my Kindle Fire, first - gen Nook 3G, and the Nook app on my Android phone. However, when I downloaded the epub file to my PC I found I couldn't read it using either the free Calibre ereader software (which told me «This file is locked by DRM») or Adobe Digital
Editions, which Pottermore Shop actually recommends for reading its Harry Potter ebooks. When I attempted to read the
ebook in Adobe Digital
Editions I got a pop - up box telling me «Document is licensed for a
different user account».
If you are using an ISBN for the
eBook edition, the ISBN for the print
edition should be
different.
On Substance B, there is no difference in content between the EPUB and MOBI
editions; however,
different devices and apps will display the
eBooks differently.