Graphicly, which for nearly three years owned comics news / podcast site iFanboy, announced in April 2012 that it would move away from distributing comics on its own app and instead focus on providing visually based books and comics to
eBook platforms like Apple's iBooks, Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook.
Digital comics distributor and app provider Graphicly announced today that it is shifting its focus entirely from building and maintaining its own platform for selling comics to the consumer to distributing a variety of visually - based books and comics to
eBook platforms like Apple's iBooks, Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook.
Graphicly announced in April that it would move away from distributing comics on its own app and instead focus on providing visually based books and comics to
eBook platforms like Apple's iBooks, Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook.
Of course, many of these are
eBook platforms like Britannica, Credo, GVRL, Oxford, and Sage.
Many authors have spoken out on the superfluousness of having an agent take on roles that the indie author can easily fulfill; if
ebook platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing were to ridiculously insist that they would only accept ebook submissions from literary agents, that would be the end of indie authors and agents would once again be almost a requirement for authors to put their works in front of readers.
Not exact matches
However, in the case of a person
like me without a large blog readership, would it make sense for me to invest a ton of time creating an
eBook if I don't have a
platform standing behind me from which to market the product?
Exploring tactics related to specific individual
platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, this
eBook contains all the information you need to establish or improve your social media campaign.
If you would
like to help out a small family, rather than large business, I am happy to announce that you can now get my books as a high quality
ebook that works on any
platform.
Kindle
ebook support multi
platform include windows, mac, iphone and ipad, user can read kindle
ebook in PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad, but it can't read in other brand e-reader,
like Sony e-reader, NOOK.
All the main publishers have built
ebook distribution
platforms like Numilog (Hachette), ePlatforme (Editis), Eden (Gallimard / Flammarion / La Martiniere)
I'll be adding the
ebook to other distribution
platforms such as Kobo and Smashwords shortly, but if you'd
like to read it now and don't have an ereader, simply download the free Kindle app to the electronic device of your choice (phone, tablet, PC, etc).
Today's Bone Walker major news item: if you're a reader of
ebooks on Kobo devices and / or apps, OR if you're Android - inclined and
like to get your digital media from Google Play, then the book is now available for preorder on
platforms FOR YOU!
On top of this, some
ebook platforms also require a page that is a clickable, linkable page
like any other table of contents.
When you're ready to publish, Pressbooks will deliver files optimized for all major
ebook platforms along with print - ready files for publishing hard copies through services
like CreateSpace and IngramSpark.
I want to
like Writing Life as a
platform — I mean, a lot of my personal
ebook purchases are in fact via Kobo, just because I really
like how they've set up partnerships with indie bookstores.
That final bit is interesting in relation to Google's indie bookseller angle, — a very savvy PR move on their part, partnering with the
likes of mega-independent Powell's and smaller retailers
like WORD via the ABA's IndieCommerce
platform — and the belief that this somehow levels the playing field, as if
ebooks have been the issue all along, as opposed to Amazon's perfecting ecommerce while Jeff Bezos ignored the pundits who focused only on his quarterly earnings in the early years.
I.e. the books will all be rubbish, look
like shit, and the big tech companies will cease to invest in their
ebook platforms.
Fussy Librarian also lists
ebooks on multiple
platforms and includes an audiobook link, which is one of the reasons I
like advertising there.
And of course eBrary says that their DRM is absolutely necessary to protect the copyright holders, but then you have a
platform like EBook Library, where users can download books using Adobe Digital Editions where the document will simply expire after a predetermined amount of time.
When I first assumed I would hate reading
ebooks, I'd based it on the experiences I'd had reading books on my computer through academic
platforms like NetLibrary and eBrary.
But he sees the tremendous centralization of consumer traffic to
platforms that want to monopolize the user
ebook buying,
like Apple, Google, and Amazon.
This week, Trident Media Group joined the ranks of respected agencies
like Dystel & Goderich, Knight Agency, and Andrea Brown Literary in agreeing to help their clients publish their manuscripts to
ebook platforms.
«We've built a comprehensive publishing
platform that can handle
ebook creation, marketing, direct sales, distribution and analytics, and now we're seeing how innovative apps
like stories etc. can take several Pubsoft tools to offer a unique e-memoir engine.
His personal formula for writing and publishing through
platforms like CreateSpace for his print editions and online
platforms for
ebooks has resulted in twenty - five books on the bestseller list, featured articles in the Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers, and a book co-written with Clive Cussler, to be published later this year.
It really looks
like Kobo is stepping up their game by closely working with emerging Tablet Computers and spreading their
eBook store across many
platforms, from Android to Apple and more.
Wei Shi, an analyst at Strategy Analytics» wireless media strategies division, said that a significant development in the
eBook market is subscription - based services launched by
platforms like Amazon Unlimited, which have a model similar to how Spotify and Pandora work in the music industry.
New opportunities through periodical
platforms like Next Issue, PressReader, and Zinio, as well as
ebook catalogs through Freading, Boopsie, and Smashwords» unprecedented distribution agreement with OverDrive have meant that not only do libraries have options for providing relevant formats to their patrons, but they also have competitive choices that can lead to better budget options.
While educational initiatives have put devices in place, retail websites
like Flipkart and Amazon India have introduced easy
ebook purchasing, and even major self - publishers have brought the
platform to authors in India, the lack of internet connection has been blamed for disappointing results in publishing.
Rick Noble, CEO of Haights Cross Communications too sounded optimistic of the new arrangement, saying: «With their world - class digital
platform and new
eBook offering rapidly gaining momentum, the timing is perfect for Recorded Books to be joining a quality, growth - oriented private equity firm
like Wasserstein & Co..
Max 8 % of printed books are available as
ebooks, though many of the main European publishers have built content distribution
platforms like Numilog (Hachette), ePlatforme (Editis), and Eden (Gallimard / Flammarion / La Martiniere).
In this hands - on course we'll start with a typical manuscript and move start to finish through to putting it up for sale (or stopping just shy of putting it up for sale if you
like) as a professionally produced,
platform - optimized
ebook.
BookBub is a wildly popular website that features deeply discounted
ebooks on a variety of
platforms like the Kindle.
I really
like Kobo for their amazing
eBook coupons and open
platform, plus the design of their reader is excellent.
Sure, Palm Pilots and the
like have
platforms for reading
eBooks, but they aren't very book -
like, and they sometimes mysteriously change characters to bizarre symbols in some places.
Rising up to meet this market, tools
like our
platform, Pressbooks.com, were created to overcome the one remaining hurdle for everyday authors: formatting a book — a task that previously required a graphic designer and an
ebook developer.
It is intended to not just replace the old console for managing your B&N
ebook titles but also provide true «authoring
platform»
like... what?
Platforms like OverDrive, 3M, Smashwords, and Bilbary are working diligently to provide digital content for libraries until the publishers» concerns — namely pricing, number of patron checkouts per
ebook purchase, and piracy — are addressed.
While Frum's title is not a piece of long - form journalism
like those digital titles published by
platforms like Atavist and Kindle Singles, the popularity of those
platforms can be found in this
ebook.
Some of the specific tactics that publishers and authors have tried in order to reduce
ebook piracy have included DRM restrictions, which limit content to one specific device
platform and eliminate the ability to share beloved books with fellow readers, and other professional tactics
like the watermark that the Harry Potter
ebooks contain, theoretically pointing out which reader posted them on file sharing sites.
And at only a 15 % royalty rate for
ebooks sold through Smashwords, the
platform offers the authors a greater percentage of their sales price in royalty than
platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.
They were down for over a week where certain
platforms such as the BlackBerry Playbook was not able to access any of the
ebooks, existing purchases and the
like.
In exchange for incentives such as paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books, authors were not allowed to list their
ebooks for sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to use
platforms like Wattpad where users could interact with the book.
Copia demonstrated its social reading
platform and rolled out its college textbook interactivity, BookTracks offered samples of its fully integrated audio enhancements, and a variety of companies
like start - ups BiblioCrunch and Robot Media demonstrated tools that authors and readers can use to develop their own
ebooks and app books.
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.
Using a Netflix -
like subscription
platform in which no books were actually downloaded to a computer or device, 24symbols would instead rely on Cloud - based content storage that allowed subscribers to access
ebooks on any web browser - enabled device.
Enhanced children's
ebooks by highly specialized types of publishers
like this one under its parent company, zuuka, have a lot to offer young readers, aside from the obvious form of go - to quality entertainment on Mom or Dad's iOS
platform device.
Like the United States and Canada, Australia has struggled with
ebook prices that are too high,
platforms with unpredictable fees, and licenses that are hostile to libraries, users, and authors alike.
You don't need to worry about tons of versions of your
eBook out there, or getting declined by random systems (
like Apple, who denies any book with links that aren't Apple based) or any other myriad of problems raised by maintaining multiple
platforms.
One Click Publish - A
platform for indie authors to easily create, format, and publish
ebooks for their own use and to popular
ebook retailers
like Amazon and iBooks.
Apart from Amazon, which the majority of self - publishers are using to self - publish a book, there are other
platforms like Smashwords which make sure an
ebook is published in various other
ebook stores.