Sentences with phrase «ebook publisher just»

Online ebook piracy remains a major concern for ebook publishers just as it is for the music industry.

Not exact matches

And a bit of good news: My publisher just put everything on sale so you can grab my first book «Jesus Feminist «for just $ 3.99 ebook edition or $ 9.41 in the paperback.

Right now, some publishers make eBooks just as expensive as paper books, but this will change in time.

Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.

I just finished reading U.S. District Judge Denise Cote's 56 - page opinion and order in the eBooks class action lawsuit filed against Apple and five Defendant Publishers.

Hopefully, they'll also work on publishers to offer a short term rental option, giving them a further point of difference and, at the same time, turning what for many early users is a negative — that you can't download the ebooks you «own» — into a positive: that you don't need to own or download them because you've just rented them.

But someone ought to remind Catherine's publisher, whether agent or legacy, that selling an ebook at almost the same price as a paperback (Kindle UK option) just looks like a rip - off.

Just when it seems that libraries and publishers are finally coming to terms on how to make ebook lending feasible, another blow is struck to the libraries and patrons.

For example: I've just published a new ebook (non-fiction) and at first I thought it would be just targeted for bike owners and people looking for extra income (How To Make Money With Your Bike) and after I wrote it, I contacted a nationwide sign franchise with 575 stores, and proposed they become the publisher if we also put in an order form, within the ebook, that links their website with the reader.

Hopefully, as more major library systems showcase highly successful pilot programs and more publishers adopt the attitude that an ebook really is just a book, lending will continue to grow.

Simon and Schuster has just reached a new agreement with online bookseller Amazon, and empowers the publisher to once again establish their own prices on eBooks.

OverDrive, the leading supplier of eBooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, announced that it has expanded into 50 different countries and just added 300,000 digital titles from more than 100 top publishers such as Faber & Faber, Simon & Schuster UK, Penguin Random House Spain, Planeta, Random House... [Read more...]

Most mainstream publishers don't embed fonts, because it makes the ebook bulkier and less easy to predict — it's safer and easier to make a simple, lightweight ebook that just displays the text cleanly with no fancy stuff.

(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 auEbooks 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 auebooks - 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.

Update: Just got word from Lewis» publisher that the ebook version (including Kindle) will be available the same day as the hardcover.

Driven by curiosity (as always), I've just spend a large part of my lunch break browsing through various forums [1], trying to get a handle on what problems self - publishers are facing when they are creating their ebooks.

Owen also pointed out that HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher that has signed on with Scribd, «just as HarperCollins is the only Big 5 publisher making its books available to Oyster or to another recently launched ebook subscription service, eReatah.»

Gosh I do write an awful lot about eBooks, but it is the flavor - of - the - year, not just for book publishers of course, but for readers (and publishers) everywhere.

What they don't understand is: people who prefer ebooks are going to KEEP buying ebooks, but they aren't going to pay $ 15, they'll just read other authors published by publishers who bought a clue.

From # 8 Crux of matter, quoting Zoe: What they donâ $ ™ t understand is: people who prefer ebooks are going to KEEP buying ebooks, but they arenâ $ ™ t going to pay $ 15, theyâ $ ™ ll just read other authors published by publishers who bought a clue.

So, it's not just a matter of the author or US publisher giving Amazon or Apple or BN or Whoever a thumbs - up to sell away the English language eBook from their distribution channels in other countries.

Since publishers are so concerned with the «perpetuity of lending and simultaneity of availability» of their ebooks, I have to wonder if libraries shouldn't just help them out and hit the STOP button themselves?

$ 228 is just about the limit of what I would recommend the self - publisher spend on his venture into the eBook world.

HarperCollins had just shocked all publishers when they changed their acquisition ebook terms by limiting the ebooks use to 26 circulations before the books had to be repurchased.

Hoffelder also wrote that, «Curiously, Pellerin told [French newspaper] Le Figaro that self - published ebooks as well as books by foreign publishers would not be affected by this opinion, just books published by French publishers.»

Barbara elegantly collapses into one sentence the last several years of the ebook wars and, even more importantly, identifies all stakeholders in the reading ecology: not just publishers and libraries, but authors and readers.

Then, once you got your built - in stylesheet in order, just turn off all publisher CSS completely and tell everybody to go and fix their fucking ebooks.

Another major concern in the ebook - only representation model is that the agent would now retain all rights to the books, just as publishers in a traditional model do.

Auryn, the most award - winning children's ebook publisher and the brain child of Academy award - winning visual effects designers, ahs launched four new titles, just in time to grab students» attention and engage them in self - selected reading over the summer months.

Geez, I went with Kobo to try to avoid giving money to Amazon and Barnes and Noble (I have some author friends who think Amazon / B & N have poor business practice, as they undercut the publishers when selling ebooks which affects the publishers» / authors» profits on the books that THEY produced), but now I'm wishing I just caved and bought a darn Kindle like everybody else did.

I have a traditional publisher bringing out a non-fiction book in February and they just made an offer to bring out a related novel as an ebook.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Perhaps just as importantly, it would allow publishers to gracefully exit the ebook pricing, DRM and staged release debacles of the past, and finally be seen as offering a valuable service to consumers instead of being the big, greedy bad guys.

This week, I'll just take a brief look at some numbers from an article by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association about the market share of ebooks in the current German book market.

Just like the phone company has to recover all the sunk costs for switches, engineers, lines (or cell towers), billing systems, customer service etc., and so they charge you for the «free» phone call that bears no incremental costs, so the publisher has to recover their sunk costs in the ebook.

And just a reminder: I'm compiling all of these newsletters into an eBook to be released by my publisher Booktrope, so if you can't keep up, or lose or delete a newsletter, don't panic.

The fact that publishers went along with it is a clear indication of just how desperate they were to break the stranglehold Amazon had on the ebook business.

If you've written an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

These requirements are simply out of reach for most eBook resellers and self - publishers, or they're just not feasible for larger ones.

These guides are packed with helpful information for self - publishers at every level, whether you're just starting your self - publishing journey or need a quick refresher on print and ebook formatting.

A few days back I explained the problem just at my library in Novato, California, where of the six largest publishers in the U.S. only two will sell or lease ebooks to the county library, and of those one charges huge rates, the other has a use limit before the ebook is made unusable!

Your publisher is selling your book there just as it's selling it on the Kindle, the Nook, the iPad, Kobo, and other ebook platforms.

The report, based on survey results from Parent Tested Parent Approved (PTPA) Media Inc., showed an exponential growth in children's ebook consumption just in the last three years, with Kobo's children's sales increasing tenfold in that time and the American Publisher's Association stating a 200 % increase in children's sales.

Now that we have tablets so tightly integrated into the Amazon and Apple stores, with stored credit cards and easy password processes, expecting people to bypass them to buy ebooks direct from the publisher just seems like more expensive and wasteful manufacturer wishful thinking to me.

Plus, authors will eventually cut out the publishers at some point and just sell the ebooks on Amazon.com.

According to Stross, however, the constant headlines and boycotts of libraries just might fuel the fires for smaller publishers as consumers turn to the many ebooks that independent authors and smaller houses are happily making available for ebook lending catalogs.

Why shouldn't the publishers just sell their ebooks directly to the consumer via a website and cut out the parasitic middlemen, i.e. Apple and Amazon.

With plans ranging from free with a 20 % cut, to as much a $ 199 per month with additional features and benefits, it just might be the answer to major ebook retailers and the lack of control over pricing that authors and publishers have felt.

Points are a great way to get free audiobooks and ebooks from major publishers, not just indie books.

Draft2Digital doesn't sell ebooks, it just distributes them, so calling Draft2Digital a vanity publisher is just nonsense.