Sentences with phrase «e-book distribution business»
From the time of its launch, Amazon's e-book distribution business has been consistently profitable, even when substantially discounting some newly released and bestselling titles.
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Macmillan has announced that they intend on entering the e-Book subscription model business, in an attempt to broaden its distribution channels.
Penn State University Press, Ohio University Press, University Press of Kansas and the University Press of Mississippi have elected to use CoreSource Plus, an Ingram service that manages the business relationship with e-book re-sellers in addition to asset distribution.
Publishers have maintained they can't sustain their business model on $ 9.99 e-books, and have attempted to justify that stance by claiming that though creating an e-book obviates costs of production and distribution (like printing and shipping), they must also consider costs of overhead, personnel, and maintenance.
Third, they think international e-book businesses, especially Amazon's Kindle e-bookstore, will destroy the Japanese distribution system dominated by two companies, Tohan and Nippan, whose shareholders include a dozen of Japan's major publishers.
In a statement, Tim Godfray, Chief Executive of The Booksellers Association of the U.K. and Ireland, stated: «We are thrilled and delighted that the European Commission's Competition Authority has decided to launch a formal investigation not just into the European e-book sector, but specifically into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements and certain business practices.»
This Section V.F shall not prohibit a Settling Defendant from communicating (a) in a manner and through media consistent with common and reasonable industry practice, the cover prices or wholesale or retail prices of books sold in any format to potential purchasers of those books; or (b) information the Settling Defendant needs to communicate in connection with (i) its enforcement or assignment of its intellectual property or contract rights, (ii) a contemplated merger, acquisition, or purchase or sale of assets, (iii) its distribution of another E-book Publisher's E-books, or (iv) a business arrangement under which E-book Publishers agree to co-publish, or an E-book Publisher agrees to license to another E-book Publisher the publishing rights to, one or more specifically identified E-book titles or a particular author's E-books.
«After retooling its business model, BiblioCrunch, a free DIY e-book production and distribution platform, is being relaunched with a new e-book production and editorial services marketplace.»
Amazon integrated customer data and payment information with e-book distribution and its Amazon publishing initiative (the framework is clearest when it comes to books, but the integration of distribution and the customer relationship also applies to most of Amazon's business)
In late December Macmillan John Sargent announced that there were getting into the e-Book subscription business, in an attempt to broaden their distribution channels.
A year after six Brazilian publishers launched the DLD e-book distribution platform, it opens for business today.
As with most issues in France, e-book distribution is not just a business concern, but a political one.
The shift to e-books, which is most advanced in the United States where Amazon catalyzed the market with its Kindle device and store four years ago, has already touched off changes to publishers» business models, distribution systems and costs.
The move bolsters Rakuten's e-book business and puts a global spin on Overdrive's core function, which revolves around a digital distribution platform that many libraries use to loan out e-books.
Suggested services: 1) Pre-publication: Developmental editing, copy editing, proofing; 2) Imprint name: Your own, ISBN, etc.; 3) Cover and interior design: custom; 4) Promotion: author / business web site, Facebook, blog, Twitter, other related genre sites; expert articles / guest blogs, web traffic / readership development, preliminary PR for endorsements and reviews; 5) Format: hardback; paperback; e-book; 6) Distribution: wide - Ingram, Amazon, B&N, etc..
and Gluhovsky have set up their own e-book distribution platforms and are continually experimenting with different business models.