The official launch of the new
eBook selling platform is several months away but has been announced in time for Book Expo America.
Not exact matches
You can write
eBooks on diverse topics, and earn passive income from
selling them to millions of people on the Amazon kindle
platform.
I am not using videos as a
platform to
SELL a $ 97
eBook, I promote home workouts and discourage the purchase of * anything *.
You may also wish to repurpose some of your short reports into
eBooks (
sold on their on website) or books for the Kindle
platform.
However, after five major publishers made an agreement with Apple on
ebook pricing that specified other
platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise prices, and many books began
selling for $ 14.99.
At that price, it's widely known that Amazon is
selling ebooks at a loss in a broad strategy to cement its Kindle ereaders and tablets as the dominant ereading
platform.
One of the principle owners of the Tolino Alliance is Deutsche Telekom and they have just filed paperwork with the Bundeskartellamt, the German Federal Cartel Office, to
sell its stake in the Tolino
ebook platform to Rakuten Kobo.
It is a proprietary
ebook platform for
selling and distributing their content to end users and schools.
The Bluefire Reader is one of the best independent
ebook reading apps for the iPad, with its biggest
selling point being that it uses the Adobe Digital Editions DRM
platform.
If you want to
sell globally and distribute your
ebook on multiple
platforms, then use IngramSpark.
My latest Publishers Weekly column announces the launch - date for my long - planned «Shut Up and Take My Money»
ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for their publishers,
selling their
ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25 % the publisher gives back to them later in royalties.
Stephanie Chandler is an author of several business and marketing books including «The Author's Guide to Building an Online
Platform: Leverage the Internet to
Sell More Books» and «From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books,
eBooks and Information Products.»
Five Ideas for Using Twitter to
Sell Your Books and
eBooks Author's promotions and
platform building, Amanda McArthur gives us some clues on letting Twitter help.
As the world's largest distributor of indie
ebooks, Smashwords lets you bypass having to deal with multiple author
platforms by letting you upload your book and immediately start
selling at more than 20
ebook retailers.
Abs Farah is the founder of Payhip, a simple
platform to help authors
sell their
ebooks directly to their readers.
In other words, Apple already owns a rather commanding distribution engine to
sell «
eBooks» called the iTunes Store — a
platform that is already syncing with software sitting on the desktops of millions and millions of Macs and PCs worldwide.
For example, the Createspace
platform gives authors the opportunity to have their completed books
sold on Amazon, currently the leading online bookseller, for both print and Kindle (
ebook) editions.
They share an
ebook platform and
sell their own e-readers and tablets in competition to Amazon's Kindle.
If you want to
sell a printed book, or an
ebook in any other online - reseller
platform, however, you need to buy at least one ISBN.
If Amazon /
ebook retailers are your primary sales
platform (and they are, unless you are a professional speaker or planning to
sell thousands of copies at events) you need to design for Amazon.
Short Covers has been
selling eBooks for a long while, but the rebranding to Kobo marks the first serious alternative to the Kindle as a
platform.
We then dive deeper into the issue of major
ebook stores on the iOS
platform and why they stopped
selling books within the apps.
It changed how books were
sold in India with an amazing online
platform, and now its new
ebooks initiative with Flyte will take book distribution to a new level.
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.
«By helping our clients develop, format and distribute
eBooks, we create
platforms our clients can use to build brands, promote executives, raise funds for nonprofits, and
sell other services and products they offer.»
He's not an established author, but he used our
platform to release this beautiful
ebook which has
sold over $ 20,000 worth in the first five days of our launch.
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The four most - popular
eBook publishing
platforms are: Kindle iBooks Nook Google Books For the most part, they are relatively similar in terms of offering the ability to publish and
sell one's
eBooks online.
If you are
selling your
ebook on non Amazon
platforms with good results, then I'd say don't enroll in KDP Select.
Your publisher is
selling your book there just as it's
selling it on the Kindle, the Nook, the iPad, Kobo, and other
ebook platforms.
The wealth of books from the various
ebook distribution
platforms selling at an under - three - dollar price point — and many of those
selling for under one dollar — speaks to what readers are willing to pay for digital titles, especially from newer authors.
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.
And at only a 15 % royalty rate for
ebooks sold through Smashwords, the
platform offers the authors a greater percentage of their sales price in royalty than
platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.
Despite the fact that Random House
sells these same culinary titles as
ebooks on other distribution
platforms, consumers who opt to buy the cookbooks through the site are only able to view their purchased titles through the app or website, something that directly contradicts the great portability and access - anywhere features of digital reading.
In order to continue
selling ebooks on the Apple
platform, Amazon got really sneaky and released a workaround.The Kindle Cloud Reader was developed in the first quarter of 2011 and released to the public in August.
Amazon signs authors to one of their imprints who
sell lots of
ebooks on their Kindle Direct Publishing
platform or they bid on the rights to the... [Read more...]
He said that indie authors who
sell lots of
ebooks are fast tracked through Singles or invited to publish on their
platform.
We take a percentage on the
ebooks you
sell via our
platform.
What actually may make this venture far more profitable than enhanced
ebooks from a few years ago is the building on the HTML5
platform for ease of consumption across multiple
platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital publishing industry of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for authors and publishers to market,
sell, and retrieve royalties on their titles, regardless of retail outlet.
NASA does not
sell or distribute their
eBooks on any other
platform, such as Amazon or Kobo.
Google Editions is slated for an August release that offers publishers and authors a
platform to
sell books directly from their website, having Google host the Book, Checkout process and more, seeking to change the current
Ebook distribution methodology.
Konrath is bullish on
ebooks, and is making a killing
selling his books that used to be in paperback on Kindle and other
platforms for $ 2.99 a piece.
Also, about 200 independent bookstores in the American Booksellers Association will be able to use the Google
eBook platform to
sell books, sharing profits with Google without the need to build an online
platform, she said.
Although indie authors can not currently
sell enhanced
ebooks on any major
platforms, they do have the option to put their books up for sale before their release date, at least on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble (via Smashwords).
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Notion Press is India's first indie - publishing
platform that enables authors to publish, promote and
sell print books and
eBooks around the world.
Liz, In no way do we put «all our eggs» in the Amazon basket; we just use their unequaled
platform to
sell eBooks (and have been doing so since the advent of the Kindle, and
selling pBooks through Amazon since 1996).
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HighWire, which was founded in 1995 and is a part of the Stanford University library system, partners with a variety of sources like universities, publishers, and professional organizations to publish scholarly journals,
ebooks, and more, while Tizra's web - based
platform makes book discovery and book
selling a more streamlined process.
A release from
ebook developer Vook today announced that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will now accommodate embedded videos in
ebooks, which is long - awaited news for authors who have until now not been able to promote and
sell their titles on one of the largest retail
platforms for
ebooks.