Sentences with phrase «ebook platforms do»

On the other hand, the Big - 3 eBook platforms do a good job selling books, and we have seen results from them with our digital prose line.

JB: If the ebook platform didn't exist, what do you think you would have done with the book's content?

Not exact matches

As the graphic below shows, the iPad is the overwhelming platform of choice for ebooks of fixed layout, which is a fancy word for those that don't include any multimedia or other «enhanced» features:

However, in the case of a person like me without a large blog readership, would it make sense for me to invest a ton of time creating an eBook if I don't have a platform standing behind me from which to market the product?

I know that many of you have already purchased my newest eBook from Amazon, but if you don't have Kindle (or the Kindle app for a different device), I am happy to announce that The Re-Justification of God is now available on the following platforms:

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

Even if I didn't live in Canada (and am thus exempt from Kindle Select, anyway), to put your ebooks on only one platform would alienate the other platform users out there.

asks Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords — one of the few ebook self - publishing platforms that didn't clean house in October.

This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.

But one company, Chinese Cubes, offered something truly different, something that we don't see all the time from an enhanced ebook platform.

So after seeing a post by TechCrunch on a new ebook creation platform that doesn't cost the user any money, uploads seamlessly from his Google Drive account, and can be tailored... [Read more...]

So after seeing a post by TechCrunch on a new ebook creation platform that doesn't cost the user any money, uploads seamlessly from his Google Drive account, and can be tailored right there on the screen in front of him, I had to try it out.

Although 3M doesn't currently do business with Amazon for loaning out ebooks to the Kindle platform, it is not entirely out of the question.

Unlike other platforms that make readers choose between «bookshelves» only available to certain products and companies, Ownshelf opens up eBook sharing to everyone, and is one of the first projects to do so.

There are a lot of eBook platforms out there — how many do you know?

These authors will find their way to market via ebook self - publishing platforms, and once they learn they can do it better, faster, more profitably and more enjoyably on their own, it'll be tougher and more expensive for publishers to win them back.

But with Google's ebook platform floundering, Kobo all but pulling of the US, Barnes & Noble's ability to stay afloat a recurring concern, the only real player we can depend on is iBooks, which is doing increasingly well despite its obvious drawbacks, or the growth of new direct sales platforms by publishers.

I'll be adding the ebook to other distribution platforms such as Kobo and Smashwords shortly, but if you'd like to read it now and don't have an ereader, simply download the free Kindle app to the electronic device of your choice (phone, tablet, PC, etc).

I should clarify that I do all my eBook publishing with Amazon through their Kindle Digital Platform and also with Lulu for my ePub editions.

We don't enable not having a table of contents because it's required in some ebook platforms and we don't want your book to be rejected.)

The advancement of ePub3 is taking place at a glacial pace, while the device platform creators such as Apple, Amazon and Google are doing nothing to create cross-platform standards that will lead to better eBooks.

Amazon does a really good job of putting their eBooks on a number of different platforms.

What I mean is that publishers may be agitated over ebook distribution — mainly about price control — but they don't have an issue with the platform.

Amazon, as Apple, didn't start to make money on the ebooks but on the platform (the actual electronic device).

So even if you're doing just one chapter or a short story, the table of contents is best practice and more important, required, in at least some ebook platforms.

From something that was considered a domestic online enterprise, eSentral has grown into a digital platform monster serving more than 40,000 ebooks for the market of Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, and all this started on landscape which did not have an ebook industry to begin with.

We don't enable not having a table of contents because it's required in some ebook platforms and we don't want your book to be rejected.

-- Too many platforms, too little interoperability — how do you browse a shelf of eBooks?

The best we can do is to make our eBook collections findable via our library catalog, but that lacks the sophisticated search functionality of the individual platforms themselves.

The difference in what Amazon is doing is they've effectively built the platform first and are now using it to publish books (print, ebooks and audio) targeted to specific audiences in ways traditional publishers can't because intermediaries are still their primary customers.

eBook sales have grown 80 % at Lulu alone and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can to help your books grace the digital pages of your favorite devices and platforms.

You only think it does, but with five or more generations of eBook devices in the market by now, each with different limitations, quirks and firmware bugs, no word processor exporter will be able to produce an eBook that works reliable on all these platforms.

(Why ebook vendors aren't doing more interesting things on Android where they aren't held back by the platform owner's policies is beyond me, but that's a blog post for a different day.)

While many e-reading platforms aimed at the children's market focus solely on the younger reader content found in many interactive book apps, an unrivaled understanding of the children's book market and the technological know - how to market ebooks for a variety of devices and ages will both have a great deal to do with the expected success of Scholastic's electronic reading application.

While Vellum's price tag is supposed to let authors make one version of their ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document of the book without going through the laborious process of formatting it within the app.

New opportunities through periodical platforms like Next Issue, PressReader, and Zinio, as well as ebook catalogs through Freading, Boopsie, and Smashwords» unprecedented distribution agreement with OverDrive have meant that not only do libraries have options for providing relevant formats to their patrons, but they also have competitive choices that can lead to better budget options.

How does having to spend a few days submitting one's new book to every ebook seller's platform separately make any sense.

If you are selling your ebook on non Amazon platforms with good results, then I'd say don't enroll in KDP Select.

Amazon has done a great job developing and promoting the Kindle platform for ebooks.

The article inspired me to share my experience of self publishing a book and ebook... and how to do it for almost free using the Amazon Createspace platform.

Note: Whether for print books or ebooks, self published authors who do NOT use a self publishing platform (such as Createspace or KDP) and who do all the production, printing, distribution and marketing of their books themselves do not receive «royalties.»

All in all, I don't see a lot of benefit here, unless you have a particular desire or reason to distribute your English - language book in China (and even then, I'd strongly suggest verifying that Chinofy is actually present on Chinese ebook platforms).

It's a free self - service platform that doesn't offer any additional services or assistance; authors need to have their ebook files ready for upload (Microsoft Word or EPUB).

I wouldn't want to try self - publishing without a decent marketing plan and some kind of platform, but there are some no - name authors doing well with ebooks.

It can protect the most popular eBook formats, ePub and PDF, and perhaps its greatest strength is that it does so without locking end - users into a single device, platform or vendor.

To expect Apple to wait for your standardization for their tool which Apple wants to restrict to their ebook platform so Amazon and Google don't copy their design IP aka Javascript and CSS.

Well, to be honest, it changes every time I get ready to do this, because the development of software, platforms and everything about ebooks changes so rapidly.

This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or app they choose.

Inkling Habitat is a new platform is aimed at publishers and companies that do large scale ebook releases.

You can price an ebook as free on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform — they just don't make it easy.