Sentences with phrase «ebook distribution retailers»

One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her ebooks available exclusively through her own website, forgoing the percentage that would have gone to the major ebook distribution retailers.

Many of the current ebook distribution retailers are setting their sights on the foreign markets as a wealth of devices — some of the designed specifically for the financial needs of outlying areas and schools — have cropped up in the past year.

The major ebook distribution retailers are notoriously tight - lipped when it comes to giving out specific information on their ebook and e-reader sales, but Amazon was recently forced to disclose some highly sensitive information to Parliament's PAC, or Public Accounts Committee, alongside fellow giants Starbucks and Google over disputes about the amounts of taxes owed.

Multi-platform ebook distribution retailer Smashwords announced on its blog yesterday that it has introduced a gifting feature that allows users to give ebooks from its catalogs as gifts simply by entering the recipient's email address.

Not exact matches

Launched in 2008, Smashwords has the tools to expand your audience through self - publishing and ebook distribution to retailers and public libraries.

I can understand this when talking about ebooks, whose distribution is - entirely - separate from the rigor of retail space (and from landlords and property tax passthroughs and shoplifting and etc).

Stay tuned — we're actively exploring many more features, including providing easy access to retail distribution channels with the goal of enabling Lulu authors to sell eBooks in every online marketplace.

With Smashwords, their distribution offers the widest possible network of ebook retailers for me.

Ebook distribution platform Smashwords, one of the top retailers for self - published and digitally published works, unveiled a new program today that will make it even easier and more lucrative for libraries to put indie authors» titles in the devices of digital reading patrons.

They have just a signed a new global retail distribution partnership with Ingram Content Group, and free output to reflowable ebooks for all Amazon Kindle devices and Kindle readers.

But I would add to this by noting that none of the big western retailers allow ebook downloads to the region, making distribution that much harder for publishers, and finding content that much harder for readers.

Most bookstore chains have their own ereader device and their own bookstore; but some companies like Smashwords, BookBaby, and Lulu offer «distribution» - which means they'll send your ebook out to all the online retailers and keep track of sales for you.

I've hit the part where it says, «An NCX with multiple chapters is required to distribute your eBook to our retail distribution partners.»

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Karen Tripp, Digital Distribution Manager at O'Reilly Media, discusses the challenges of distributing ebooks to various retail channels such as Amazon and iBooks.

Ebook distribution is also possible, with ebooks made available to over 70 online retail partners in ebook distribution channels including Amazon, Apple iBooks, and Ebook distribution is also possible, with ebooks made available to over 70 online retail partners in ebook distribution channels including Amazon, Apple iBooks, and ebook distribution channels including Amazon, Apple iBooks, and Kobo.

Draft2Digital is the leading eBook distribution aggregator worldwide, delivering works from independent authors and publishers to major online retailers.

Specifically, we get to talk about DRM - free ebooks, the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), and retail innovation.

With distribution, your ebook is listed for sale through Amazon.com, iBookstore, and 120 + online retailers including Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Copia, and eBooks.com.

Your ebook will be uploaded and made available to our distribution network, including Amazon, iBooks, and BN.com, as well as libraries and specialty retailers around the world.

Let us handle the submission process through our distribution network, which will make your ebook available for one year (renewable annually) to over 120 online retailers, many of which are listed below.

OverDrive is the leading digital distribution platform, supplying the industry's largest catalog of eBooks, audiobooks, streaming video and periodicals to 38,000 libraries, schools and retailers worldwide.

And when you tie POD in directly with distribution, as Ingram has done with IngramSpark ®, customers get POD service bundled with eBook distribution to 39,000 retail outlets and libraries.

If indie authors now have the ability to get their books listed at every ebook store, why then are some authors so quick to surrender their worldwide distribution in favor of territorial distribution and retailer exclusivity?

You can also download our handy new eBook Distribution Guidelines that'll save you lots of headaches when it comes time to sell through other retail channels.

So generally, you should plan on using a unique ISBN for each format (print, ebook, audio, translation, and so on) rather than each retailer or distribution method.

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If you choose to make your eBook available for distribution, you will receive 90 % of the Suggested Retail Price after the retailer's commission.

There are a lot of issues that can keep eBook submissions out of retail distribution channels.

One of the most useful tools an author can provide to potential reading consumers is a dedicated author page, usually available as a free feature from the ebook distribution platforms that retail the books.

If you upload your print and / or ebook to the various retail channels through their distribution process, they will take a portion of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 % of their list price on print titles sold through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).

«ePubDirect work continuously to add the most relevant retailers to our eBook Distribution service, and we are very excited to be able to add Oyster to our platform», explained Gareth Cuddy, CEO, ePubDirect.

But in general I personally think that $ 5.27 is a perfectly reasonable price for an ebook, and I think most readers EXPECT that an ebook, with no distribution costs or retail middle - man to pay, should be less than a paper book.

If you decide not to sell exclusively with Amazon by enrolling in KDP Select, then you'll want to decide how you'll manage distribution to other ebook retailers, primarily Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook Press, and Kobo.

While it was approved for retail distribution, no one seems to be buying my eBook.

However, the more services your distributor provides, the less profit you can expect to receive, and one of the key attractions of ebook distribution and retail is its excellent potential for author profits — to cut out the middleman entirely and have the same visibility and retail potential as any other book.

To help answer this most important of questions, we have redesigned the Sell page to provide an at - a-glance summary of Lulu's distribution options, services, tools, and retail pricing examples for both print and eBooks in distribution.

However, the more services your distributor provides, the less profit you can expect to receive, and one of the key attractions of ebook distribution and retail is the excellent potential for author profits — to cut out the middleman entirely and have the same visibility and retail potential as any other book.

We now send an email to an author when our QA team approves their eBook for distribution to retailers.

To make this even better, when you choose the Kobo and Everything Else distribution option, your eBook will be made available for purchase on eBook retailer sites in the Ingram network includinhttp: / / www.lulu.com/blog/wp-admin/post-new.phpg Kalahari, Booktopia, Baker & Taylor, Gardners, Oyster Books, Sainsbury's and others — not to mention a long list specialty eBook retailers from around the world.

Here are the other important characteristics of the major and preferred ebook retailing and distribution services:

In IngramSpark, not only can you set up your hardcover and paperback versions of your book but you can also set up your ebook at the same time and gain book distribution, including Kindle and Apple along with some 60 other ebook retailers.

Our simple distribution system lets you easily publish your eBooks to retailers, make sales, and collect royalties.

New distribution channels were established in 2014, such as OverDrive, the world's largest ebook supplier serving over 20,000 public libraries, and Txtr, a European retailer.

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

While the ebook is available from Untreed's network of more than two hundred ebook retailers in its distribution channels, readers who purchase the book from the Untreed Reads store, thereby providing the maximum amount of royalty for the author and the publisher, as well as bringing consumers to its storefront to discover its catalog of ebooks, will receive additional content for free, this time in the form of Francke's music.

When the world's largest publishers struck ebook distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies.

OverDrive is the leading global digital distribution platform, supplying the industry's largest catalog of eBooks, audiobooks, music and streaming video to 30,000 libraries, schools and retailers worldwide.

The report presents 145 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of eBook issues, including: spending on eBooks in 2010 and anticipated spending for 2011; use levels of various kinds of eBooks; market penetration by various specific eBook publishers; extent of use of aggregators vs offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Edition →

China is already enjoying the beginnings of indie publishing access with some of the country - specific online book retailers like Dang Dang developing ebook distribution platforms as an outcropping of their online stores.