Not exact matches
This means that, unless a
buyer clicks into Pottermore.com through a vendor's site, the vendor
does not receive profit from the sale of the
ebook.
There are also some individual authors, such as Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, who strongly believe they boost their sales by making some of their books available as free
ebooks — and who also understand what libraries
do for building their audience and attracting new
buyers.
I don't know if you could
do something specifically for the different countries... that would entice more
buyers / readers in... Interesting about the Indian
ebook market... cheers Hilary
DRM not only limits what a
buyer can
do with the book they just bought, it also locks them into a specific
eBook vendor.
Long story short, a judicious
ebook -
buyer doesn't have to be constrained to any one device.
The only reason why a publisher wouldn't
do this is because they know they frequently sell both the print and
eBook to the same
buyer.
How
do you plan to deliver that
ebook to your reader
buyers?
It bothers me, because I'm an
ebook reader and
ebook buyer and I don't like being lumped in with that mentality.
The Kobo
ebook store
does limit titles by
buyer's geographic residence and what was said in the review was incorrect.
I can be an impulse
buyer at times, but another reason is that I have a lot of print books as well as
eBooks still to read, and I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of books I want to read, and then simply shut down and don't read for a long time.
In stead of selling an
ebook (usage license) it should really be some kind of rent agreement (like when you rent a library - book) if the publishers
do not want to transfer any rights / ownership to the
buyers.
I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up
ebook prices, which they've always wanted to
do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about what
ebook buyers are willing to pay.
There are many people who
do no read
ebooks (and many book
buyers LOATH to buy books by self publish authors for distribution) even with her success the B&M s were not buying her books wholesale, a fact clearly not lost on her.
They have already paid for the
eBook so resist the temptation to require them to
do something you didn't require of your print book
buyer, for example, requiring them to provide an email address.
If
ebook buyers made you a star, then don't punish them.
How
do the books translate into the
ebooks that
buyers will see when they go iBook shopping?
It is a systematic move by the dominant outlet for hard copy book sales to
do two things: hamstring it's direct competitors for
ebook sales and drive
buyers towards Amazon's
ebook reader and online sales of
ebooks, which are a tremendous profit center for «The Big A».
Of those who
did buy an
ebook, the majority of
ebook buyers (40.4 %) bought 1 - 2
ebooks per year.
Perhaps, it
does not come as a surprise to learn that
eBook readers are powerful
buyers who wield the purchasing decision with finger swipes.
You've found one of the things paper books
do better than
ebooks: the impression of value for money by page size to the browsing
buyer.
PLUS...
did you know that a «
buyer» of an eBook is not a BUYER... he or she is a RENTER... meaning the the eBook «seller» can yank that baby off your ereader if they so choose, which is exactly what happened with Kobo, Amazon, BN last year with hundreds of ti
buyer» of an
eBook is not a
BUYER... he or she is a RENTER... meaning the the eBook «seller» can yank that baby off your ereader if they so choose, which is exactly what happened with Kobo, Amazon, BN last year with hundreds of ti
BUYER... he or she is a RENTER... meaning the the
eBook «seller» can yank that baby off your ereader if they so choose, which is exactly what happened with Kobo, Amazon, BN last year with hundreds of titles.
I'm from Spain, a regular
buyer of
ebooks, and for lots of books I prefer de original version in english, than the spanish translation, plus I don't want to wait 3 years until the book arrives here.
I see about 10:1 sales of
ebooks to paperback, and I don't
do ANY reformatting or cover changes... Whatever else you want to say, Amazon has given us a world of new authors to try, and I'm staying under the $ 5 price point to hopefully entice more
buyers to try my books.
Surprise, most
buyers don't realize that
eBooks are rentals — they can be yanked off an eReader from an Amazon, Kobo, Nook, etc., at their choice.
Mark Coker, of Smashwords, shared the results of a survey he
did on How
Ebook Buyers Discover Books, where he «challenged readers to select the single most common criterion they follow to discover their next read.»
So I have to say that, although I think it's highly likely that
ebooks will replace dead tree books over the next few years and reduce them to the status that vinyl records currently enjoy in the world (curios for a minority of
buyers, sold by specialist shops), I
do also see that paperbacks still have a place in the world, and that for a while longer people will still want them.
(I'm one of a growing number of
ebook buyers who will not buy a book if there's DRM applied, because it means I don't actually own it.
I don't think that book
buyers care whether they can buy both print and e from the same store, so you're not
doing them a disservice by not offering
ebooks.
This might mean selling a hard copy of the book at $ 14 but the
eBook download at $ 5 in order to ensure the
buyer does not feel like they have been overcharged.
I wasn't eligible for credits from any other
ebook provider during the first round of credit distribution so never heard from anyone else but I'd assume
buyers might get credits from whomever you originally
did back then.
Selling on other devices to customers who would otherwise have bought in the Kindle store ends up hurting your profile across all
eBook readers when you are starting out.When you sell PDF
eBooks directly, they should be formatted just like printed books, and in my case, I allow customers to print the PDF, which works especially well for overseas
buyers who really want a hard copy but didn't want to pay (and wait) to have a book shipped from overseas.
The excessive number of
ebook formats and the hundreds of e-reading devices, all
doing their own thing, is stopping the more careful
buyer from fully embracing
ebooks and the technologies involved.
26 % of book
buyers HAVE bought
ebooks and 14 % of 76 % (10.5 %) also HAVE ereaders but don't use them.
Do you want to have a single global link for your Amazon
ebook that redirects
buyers around the world to the Kindle store in their home country?
But while
buyers will be able to shop online for physical goods in the EU without being blocked or automatically re-routed, there's just one small problem: the new rules don't cover ANY copyrighted content such as
ebooks, downloadable music, online games, and films, online tv, streamed sports events — you know, the sort of thing you might really want to buy crossborder.