An
ebook aggregator is a platform or service that collects and gathers ebooks from different publishers and makes them available in one place for readers to access and download.
Full definition
There are a number of
ebook aggregators like Smashwords, BookBaby, BookTango, and others that allow you to upload your ebook file and they then distribute it to a list of retailers.
Ebook aggregators distribute your book to online retailers, print book distributors send your print book to the online retailers and bookstores.
Authors want distribution everywhere, including to libraries, and if publishers won't offer it, Smashwords will, working in partnership with library
ebook aggregators such as Baker and Taylor, 3M and Overdrive, and via our own direct - acquisition service (used by DCL, Califa) called Library Direct (click my website link above to see our announcement of Library Direct).
At a glance you can see: Main Ebook Formats Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each
Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart Ebook Revenue Growth Chart eReaders & -LSB-...]
If you don't feel like spending time and putting effort into it, there are
ebook aggregators on the market who partnered up with retailers to make publishing easier for authors.
As a publisher, not an author, receiving payment of «royalties»
from ebook aggregators is incorrect for taxation purposes.
Be careful that you don't land yourself in possible conflicts of contract with
multiple eBook aggregator / retailers, a risk that is possible if you do not properly coordinate and determine which publisher has the rights over what.
About EBL - Ebook Library A ProQuest business, EBL - Ebook Library is a leading
global ebook aggregator, serving academic, corporate and research libraries worldwide.
Despite its position as one of the
smaller ebook aggregators, XinXii already hosts a catalog of over 25,000 ebook titles from more than 15,000 authors, with new content being added to the collection daily.
It is the leading
French ebook aggregator and e-distributor and it offers its distribution services to French (e.g. Hachette Livre and 300 + others) and some other worldwide publishers (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese).
Sigil also has an integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator that will alert you to any issues with your file, allowing you to create a fully EPUB compliant file that you can upload directly to retailers or
certain ebook aggregator sites.
Noting that OverDrive and
other ebook aggregators can enable publishers to work with libraries using a variety of licensing terms, and that major publishers that have begun working with libraries have discovered «that the sky isn't falling,» Potash called for hesitant publishers to test the market.
Publiseer, the Nigerian digital book publishing platform and The
Italian ebook aggregator StreetLib have formed a partnership.
The latest from PublishNews Brazil includes the announcement Saraiva has launched a self - publishing platform and Abril Media Group has
acquired ebook aggregator Xeriph.
As eBook aggregator, XinXii converts eBooks to the ePub and mobi format and distributes to major eBook retailers all over the world (Amazon, 32 iBookstores, Casa del Libro, Kobo...)-- for free.
Anuriev says he sees digital content accounting for up to 15 percent of the overall Russian market, from his vantage point as an analyst with the country's
largest ebook aggregator.
Then there are all the distributors,
eBook aggregators and of course the retailers that sell the books.
eBook Aggregators: A Primer — p. 28 by Deborah Lenares — Most large publishers now have their own proprietary platforms, and also license their books through multiple aggregators.
If you publish to any stores via
an ebook aggregator such as Smashwords then your royalties for those stores will be different.
CompletelyNovel does not offer distribution of eBooks through external retail channels — if there is a specific channel you wish to put your book in such as Amazon Kindle, we recommend using their services directly or going through
another eBook aggregator.
What is
an eBook aggregator, or third - party eBook distribution, and what do they do that differs from self distribution — when you have your own account with eBook stores like Amazon Kindle and Apple iBooks?
As
an ebook aggregator, Smashwords delivers titles downstream in bulk on a schedule and not individually.
Indie authors can upload ebooks to sell at each online ebook retailer directly, but we might instead choose to distribute them to many using
an ebook aggregator.
Smashwords is
an ebook aggregator that provides ebook distribution everywhere except Amazon Kindle.
But many authors find that using
an ebook aggregator to reach all the retailers is much more efficient.
IngramSpark is both a print book distribution service
ebook aggregator.
At a glance you can see the main Ebook Formats, Ebook Stores, Ebook Royalties,
Ebook Aggregators, E-Readers, and more!
I also like Draft2Digital, also
an ebook aggregator, which reaches Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Kobo, Apple iBooks, Scribd, Inktera, Tolino, and 24Symbols.
An ebook aggregator distributes your ebook to a wide range of online retailers.
In fact I think IngramSpark has the best metadata support of
any eBook aggregator available to self - publishers.
An ebook aggregator is the only way to achieve access to certain vendors lacking a direct epublishing portal.
She describes how to format your book, the difference between PDF, MOBI and EPUB eBook formats, and goes on to discuss online retailers and
eBook aggregators.
But many authors also find that using
an ebook aggregator is much more efficient, giving us more time to do what we love to do, which is to write.
Vook and BookBaby are
both ebook aggregators who not only distribute your ebooks to the online retailers, but can create your ebook for you — including Fixed Format EPUBs for complex and image - heavy books.