Whether you author non-fiction, fiction or technical material, you can leverage opportunities to distribute digital books via your own website, Amazon, Apple, and other
ebook distributor sites.
Word processors and layout programs are not the same thing Yes, you can upload a Word document to many of
the eBook distributor sites... but you really shouldn't.
Not exact matches
They are the five largest
ebook retailers in the US, and the
sites I almost always recommend that clients upload to directly (rather than using a
distributor).
Sites like Wattpad,
ebook distributors like SheBooks and Rooster, and even digital subscription managers like Pressreader and Zinio have all made the convenience and portability of favorited installment reading possible for busy consumers, but a new
site, Senserial, is bringing serial titles to the mainstream.
If you don't want to go through the trouble of creating an author account on all of these different
sites and don't mind giving up a bit of your control and getting smaller percentages,
ebook distributors are your method of choice.
While some other
ebook distributors rely on plagiarism detection software or
sites, and still others like Smashwords actually use a staff of people to review content prior to publication, Amazon has found that the sheer number of
ebook uploads to its catalog makes that impossible.
While
sites like Barnes and Noble's NookPress and
ebook distributor Smashwords make headlines through their blogs and travel by word of mouth, too many authors are overlooking the opportunities that Kobo's Writing Life platform has to offer.
Coincidentally, in a year spent collaborating with other platforms to form new connections and new opportunities for authors,
ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords also saw a 45 % increase in titles published to the
site.
If you request a service that requires us to log in to a third - party
site on your behalf (for example, uploading your
eBook files to Amazon or another
distributor), we will collect your login and password information to enable us to provide that service.
Many of the big
eBook distributors require a TOC, and will pull your ebook from their site if it's missing; so make it a habit to include one in every book you fo
eBook distributors require a TOC, and will pull your
ebook from their site if it's missing; so make it a habit to include one in every book you fo
ebook from their
site if it's missing; so make it a habit to include one in every book you format.
Does Pubsoft also act as a
distributor and send
ebooks to major retailers like Amazon or are all sales directly from the Pubsoft
site and app?
As an up and coming
ebook and audiobook
distributor, it's quite a challenge getting people to come to my
site as opposed to Amazon, or even Smashwords.
Kindle Select seems to have a LOT of marketing tools that other
distributors don't have, but I know I have to get the other
ebooks off of
sites to go exclusive.
Several
sites act as
distributors and will publish your books on multiple
ebook vendors.
That will make the
distributor the publisher of record (as in, their name will show up in the publisher slot on most retail
sites); also, you're not supposed to use the ISBN except on
sites to which the aggregator distributes, but you'll want to use the same ID number for the
ebook everywhere it's for sale.
This is the same reason self - formatting within your
ebook distributor's
site (KDP, for instance) is so risky.