Additionally, pay attention to their advertising prices, whether
they do ebook reviews, offer guest blogging opportunities or take PR pitches.
Not exact matches
Do read this
eBook to see how content curation promotes a culture of «learning as a continuum» and on the other side, the L&D Teams can
review the analytics to fine - tune and enhance it so that it continues to be relevant, meaningful, and an effective asset to an organization's learning strategy.
Creating a draft and
doing a
review of entire
eBook takes a lot of time, effort, and energy.
But I was able to
do that and was able to deliver the
eBook copies, so it cost me nothing, and able to get
reviews for my book that way.
Sending out
review copies, if it's a print book or the reviewer doesn't
review ebooks.
«If an
ebook does not have many ratings or
reviews, it tends to not generate sales in the major
ebook stores.
Do not run an
ebook promotion without any
reviews on your book.
But as things stand now, this doesn't even work consistently across iBooks on iPhone and iPad... which is too bad because I think there would be publishers willing to follow Virgina Quarterly
Review and develop
ebooks for Apple ecosystem.
Did you know that currently the
ebook version of Occasional Soulmates by Kevin Brennan, the subject of this
review, is available... Continue reading →
Also,
ebook editions of books that were previously published in print usually have professional
reviews of the original editions — mine
do.
It's true that few indie
ebooks have professional
reviews, but they often
do have staff
reviews from the better
review sites, which some librarians personally read.
Since most indie
ebooks don't receive conventional
reviews, we're left with customer
reviews at retailers or at Smashwords.com, and for poorly selling books, such
reviews are subject to gaming.
It would seem that Amazon is not content with controlling more than 50 % of the
ebook market they also want to control the
reviews and thereby control which writers sell and which don't.
Sure, but it is solid enough for
ebook developers to produce what are the best quality EPUB Files in something like 50 + countries — files made using other tools don't even come close... Really... You can trust me, my job partly consisting of
reviewing (a very very large amount of) EPUB files quality.
Amazon,
ebooks, Kickstarter, self - publishing... the publishing industry looks very different today than it
did five years ago when the first Kindle launched to mixed
reviews and self - publishing was synonymous with vanity publishing.
For those of you who mourn the lost opportunity of reading the
ebook, don't worry, the
reviews are still online and they're even more fun than any Gronkerotica could ever be.
We write comprehensive hands on
reviews,
do video comparisons and
do tutorials on how to load
eBooks and manage your device.
And while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly
do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several
ebook retailers incorporate the Goodreads» API into their sales pages, effectively posting book
reviews that many in the Goodreads community knew to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real - world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these
reviews.
As well as free EPUB books, I have several eReader
reviews and also a resource page where you can find places to buy EPUB
ebooks from (none work directly in iBooks but may
do via 3rd party apps).
You just don't have bloggers dedicated to
reviewing or blogging about audiobooks, so the promotional avenues are quite limited in comparison to promoting books and
ebooks.
Originally posted at BookGorilla.com Over at his Kindle
Review blog Abhi has been
doing his usually fine job of following events in the Kindlesphere, and he turned his focus today on something we've been thinking about too: the effect of the Kindle Store's wildly popular Sunshine Deals promotion on
ebook prices generally.
1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get
reviews; 5) Use your
ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep
doing everything and eventually you'll break through.
If you want more detail on what not to
do, along with a lot of belly laughs (and some cringe moments now that the cat's out of the bag on the
review debacle), go buy How To Sell A Gazillion
eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated) for $ 2.99.
Those that wish everyone buying $ 4 highly rated
ebooks instead of $ 15 trad published
ebooks would stop
doing so and view all indie work as sub-standard garbage whose
reviews are manufactured.
I'm not near as busy
doing reviews as you but I spend plenty on
eBooks.
Some want books in different formats, and some
do not
review eBooks.
Several German
ebook promo sites take new releases and
do not require
reviews, so they can be useful for a launch as well.
The Kobo
ebook store
does limit titles by buyer's geographic residence and what was said in the
review was incorrect.
Amazon.com is far less stringent in their vetting of
ebooks, but they inadvertently let fraudulent titles slip through simply because they
do not wish to hinder authors through the upload process by making them wait for their content to be
reviewed; Amazon encourages all of its customers to read the free sample chapter before purchasing an
ebook in order to ensure it is an actual original book.
Unless an author purchases BookBaby editing services, BookBaby
does not provide editorial services as part of the file
review process for book printing or
eBook distribution orders.
Update: If somebody wants a
review copy, don't use Amazon's «gifting» system for either an
ebook or a hard copy.
He went on to co-found a startup, Alteroxity, which claims to help authors publish
ebooks that are already «
done for you» — that includes the writing, the creation, the publishing, and even «dozens of honest positive
reviews».
Did John Locke sell 1 million
ebooks by paying for
reviews?
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Librarians need a place where they can find
reviews of
ebooks, just like they
do print books.
Setting your entry level price is the last thing you need to
do in order to submit your
ebook to Amazon for manual
review to start selling in their Store.
It almost seems like Amazon has it backwards, as they are commissioning a live
review of each title in the Kindle Singles division while knowing that those titles sell for as little as 99 cents, while their
ebook division can charge far more for a title but
does not provide the same attention to detail as the Kindle Singles.
The software is 95 % the same as Kobo's other
ebook readers, including the Kobo Glo, Kobo Mini, and Kobo Aura HD, all of which I've
reviewed over the past year so I really don't feel like writing the same things over again for the fourth time.
The good news is that you don't have to have a lot of
reviews for you to make money selling
ebooks.
Also, if you have published an
eBook through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), a message typically pops up when the reader is
done with the book encouraging a star - rating and
review.
When I assign that number I imagine my book getting assigned in a «Critical
Review of Early
Ebook Authors» class or some such and it motivates me to
do the best job I can.
Yet, that's a struggle without end at such a rate, and this doesn't even include
eBooks which need more than a few lines for a correct
review.
I didn't want to mar the
review with complaints about
eBooks because they aren't relevant to the specific book (i.e., not the fault of the author).
For the past not quite year and a half, Library Journal has been
doing their damnedest to bridge the gap between the sheer number of
ebook romances being published and the desire to get some
reviews into libraries» regular workflow.
Then the guru (usually a guru will
do this) emails their massive list and asks people who read their
eBook to post a positive
review on Amazon.
Your book will be
reviewed for compliance with their terms as they
do with all
ebooks.
The Kobo Aura H2O is the latest
ebook reader from Kobo, and while the Kindle Paperwhite isn't new, it's still apart of Amazon's lineup moving forward, so let's
do a comparison
review between the two today, and then compare them with the Kindle Voyage when it gets released tomorrow.
Final
review of style and structure at the code level; we
do not simply export and deliver like other services that use only a compiler from one
ebook vendor.
The recent survey conducted at the Frankfurt Book Fair found that 60 % of the respondents
did not have an ereader, and while I don't think everyone involved in book publishing actually needs to own one, I'd hope that any group distributing
ebooks would be able to
review them in the same way that their customers are receiving them.
BiblioCrunch is not a personal services company and
does not provide
eBook services or manage,
review or supervise individual Contractors or their work.