The closest, most familiar analog to Oyster on the ebook market today is Amazon's Kindle Owners Lending Library, where subscribers to Amazon's Prime service who own a Kindle can download and read one
ebook for free per month.
Not exact matches
You get one email
per week (on Saturday) which contains summaries from my blog posts
for the week, plus one email
per month with exclusive content and the occasional
free ebook.
In the weeks prior to the
free sale I was selling an average of 2 - 3
eBooks per week and 7 print books
for the entire month of December.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties
per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub and mobi format
for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all over the world
for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on
eBooks
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available
for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a
free resource
for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid
for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration
for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource
for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover
for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12
per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50
per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
Register
for Hoopla
for free with your library card and borrow up to 8 items
per month — that means you can watch 8 movies or TV episodes, or borrow 8
eBooks or Audiobooks every month
for free, with no wait lists.
If so, they can borrow (not buy) one
eBook per month
for free.
It comes with 1 GB
free data
per month
for 3 months worth Rs. 750
for Idea customers and Kindle
eBook credit worth Rs. 200.
One
free BookBaby submission
per year (a $ 99 value), to distribute your
eBook for Kindle, iPad, Nook, and more
In the intro, I mention the news that Amazon Giveaways are now available
for ebooks, and an article on Written Word Media that shows authors who earn over $ 5000
per month have written 13.75 books, use professionally designed book covers and pro editors, write in popular genres, and use
free as a promotional technique.
Kindle Prime users have access to KOLL, which allows them to borrow,
for free, one
ebook per month.
The service allows readers to «borrow» one
free eBook per month without an expiration date
for return.
Pricing
for the BookDaily «
Free Ebook Download Promotion» will be on a pay
per click basis.
It's possible, especially when you factor in the in - store customer service, Nook Nights,
free in - store
ebook reading
for up to one hour
per book, and other community - centered benefits a brick - and - mortar retail store network offers.
Over 8.5 million
free ebooks shipped from this site (2000 - 2002)[or 6.8
per minute every day
for 21 months!]
«What an author gets
per copy is not adequate to conclude that they make more money in total... I don't see any correlation in the different direction of market share based on price increases... Amazon's bestseller list is comprised mostly by low priced or almost
free titles, so it is not fair to conclude that Indy authors make more money by using this sample... more and more of the Big5 publishers have been re-designing their websites to sell
ebooks and printed books it could be a reason
for the effect into the decreased market share that they have on Amazon.»
I also like the fact that Sony is marketing it to be supporting
free library borrowing of all e-books, I much prefer borrowing all
ebooks for free and legally than paying $ 10
per ebook or pirating them.