As Cader points out, this week's commentary on OverDrive from Rakuten talks of «rapidly improving» financial performance, and — like Tamblyn — the tone is upbeat for this year's anticipated «return to the black» for the company's
ebook businesses overall, «including Rakuten Kobo and OverDrive Holdings.»
Not exact matches
Also, in tune with their
overall business theme, Big W is working on low prices to drive their
ebook business, with several of the titles to be made available each month at a discounted price of 99 cents or completely free.
However, no matter what you sell as an affiliate, having your own
ebook (s) as part of your
overall business strategy makes too much sense to ignore.
Mike DiPiano, managing general partner of NewSpring, who now joins Open Road's board of directors, said, «There is huge disruption in the publishing industry as
business models are rapidly evolving and
ebooks are becoming a greater share of
overall trade book sales.
Kobo has aggressively formulated
business relationships with OEMs, retailers and content owners around the world, creating an
overall eBook solution that provides consumers the freedom to read on any device.
And
overall, my belief — recognizing that my degree is in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, not
Business — is that more affordable
ebooks are better for the
ebook market's continued growth than the alternative.
It's a common misconception that typography is merely an afterthought or even disregarded completely, which can be a deterrent to the
overall look of your
eBook and your
businesses branding.
Amazon had a powerful weapon that no longer existed for Barnes & Noble: its cash supply and
overall marketplace power would allow it to continue taking retail losses or miniscule profits on the big publishers»
ebooks for years to come — or for however long it took Amazon, publishers feared, to be «the last man standing» in the book
business.
Initially I looked at the PwC figures, which suggest that the
overall US
eBook market in 2014, on purchased priced basis, was $ 5.69 bn dollars, a figure that is boosted by
business, academic and professional titles, many of which have a higher RRP.