eBook industry right now is where digital music industry was years ago.
Not exact matches
But Google lets you download your purchase in the
industry standard ePub format, with most commercial
ebooks also encrypted using Adobe's ACS4 digital
rights management (DRM).
Because the print
industry will demand
ebook rights, then price them too high and give you a shitty royalty rate.
It gets it all
right and unless the upcoming import
eBook readers can offer the same kind of ease of use, immediate accessibility and variety of content, I am sure the Kindle will only continue to be the guiding light for the entire
industry.
Well, we're decking the halls early at Lulu this year and slashing our
industry - best 80/20 revenue split on
eBooks so you can reach more readers, sell more books, and earn even more revenue this holiday than ever before — tis the season
right?
Project Gutenberg has now made almost all their titles available in the
industry ebook standard EPUB and all are DRM free (Digital
Rights Management)!
After retaining the digital
rights to the entire series long before
ebooks and e-readers were expected to reach their current penetration in the
industry, Rowling launched her own company and website to sell the
ebooks, brokering deals that managed to make the titles available through major online retailers while still driving that traffic to her site.
I really think that enhanced
ebooks and
ebooks as apps is the way the
industry is gravitating towards
right now.
The transitional turmoil in the publishing
industry is prompting authors to ask publishers specifically what the benefits are when they sell the
rights to a popular
ebook to one of the â $ œbig sixâ $ to be eventually release as a pbook.
Right now we have a single player (Amazon) at 75 + % marketshare setting terms for the entire
ebook industry.
In a couple years I'd imagine that unless Amazon & Apple make a deal you'll have most
eBook readers being iPads and then the publishing
industry's
eBook future is beholden to Apple like they are to Amazon
right now... and it won't have helped anybody but Apple really.
On the one hand, now that the
industry has a firm grip on
ebook publication, digital
rights, and other aspects associated with the digital publishing boom, there may very well be positions that are no longer as necessary as before.
In this post I regularly update the best resources I know of related to learning to publish an
ebook, finding the
right distributors and services, and staying on top of changes in the
industry.
Though its history goes back decades as a
rights» fair where foreign
rights to books were sold, the event has grown to place greater emphasis on digital publishing, enhanced
ebooks, self - publishing, and other innovative aspects of the
industry.
eBook discovery is a hot button issue
right now, and as the
industry moves to the digital realm, it is increasingly becoming harder to broaden your literary horizons.
So to end the year, I thought I'd close with yet another issue confronting the publishing
industry:
eBook rights.
I'm sure you're aware of it, but others might want to keep in mind one of the misleading aspects of the oft - quoted
industry stats that
ebooks are 25 % of the market
right now.
-- Guest Post by Xavier Davis — Despite Digital
Rights Management (DRM) being a widely used technology in the
eBook industry, many authors lack a firm understanding of what DRM actually is.
Despite Digital
Rights Management (DRM) being a widely used technology in the
eBook industry, many authors lack a firm understanding of what DRM actually is.
And it supports Adobe's ACS4 DRM (digital
rights management) system that the wider book
industry is backing for
ebook encryption.
The
industry is in a turbulent «change - mode»
right now, with the advent of
ebooks and the ease of printing books on demand.
And so any conversation about the effect online retail and
ebooks are having on the
industry need to begin
right here, rather than assume the opposite is true and then spread fear and doubt to generate clicks.
Sell or lend
rights - protected
eBooks in PDF, EPUB or EPUB3, a reflowing
industry - standard format for digital
eBooks.
Put two and two together and you'd realize that this platform is ready for just the
right ebook app [4] to come along, and whichever one it is — be it Amazon's Kindle app, or an Eucalyptus - type reader, or even one that we've never heard about — whichever one that is, that app will be the turning point that defines our
industry.
EditionGuard is a secure and robust
eBook DRM (digital
rights management) service, built on the
industry standard Adobe Content Server, the same technology used by giants such as Google, Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Most importantly, BB
eBooks encourages major executives to listen to each and every indie author's voice
right now because they are the creative elements that have helped drive the
eBook industry to its prosperity in the first place.
Content owners» intellectual property will be well - protected with Barnes & Noble's best - in - class digital
rights management technology and offered in the
industry standard ePub format that allows publishers» works to be enjoyed by millions of Barnes & Noble customers on hundreds of the most popular computing, mobile and
eBook reading devices.
I think the downfall of pricing
right now is that as the
ebook industry grows rapidly so does
ebook revenue because new entrants are buying books.
Apple has vehemently denied conspiring with publishing
industry heavyweights to artificially inflate
ebook pricing, countering Department of Justice claims that Steve Jobs attempted price fixing with the argument that Apple and the
rights holders were in fact strongly opposed throughout negotiations.
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right, Sterling Talent Solutions regularly publishes expert articles and
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industry experts on emerging trends and issues impacting the search for top talent.