Sentences with phrase «ebook publishers looking»

In this workshop, I give an overview of three areas of HTML5 that offer great promise to ebook publishers looking to expand beyond traditional text - and - graphic narratives: HTML5 Canvas, Geolocation, and Audio / Video.

In this workshop, I give an overview of three areas of HTML5 that offer great promise to ebook publishers looking to expand beyond traditional text - and - graphic narratives.

Not exact matches

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.

One of the banes of the indie author has been making the text of our ebooks look like that of traditional publishers.

Forty - three per cent plan to start their ebook sales this year with most looking to kick off in the next few months, according to a pre-Christmas survey of Australian booksellers conducted by Bookseller + Publisher.

If you look at the offerings for free on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, you see «sneak peeks» offered by traditional publishers for ebooks that they have for sale in those venues.

Its features look similar to those of «open» publishers, like Create Space, Kindle, Smashwords, and others (including Nook ebooks).

It's the work of a widely - supported industry group called the International Digital Publishers Forum (IDPF)-- and it looks like it might have the momentum and technical capability to serve as a broad standard for ebooks.

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.

Something that I've noticed a lot of while prowling around BN looking for free books (I make a weekly sweep), is that the traditional publishers often offer «sneak peeks» of full length ebooks for free.

Looking at the statistics presented at the workshop, it is clear that library patrons find the restrictions put on ebooks by most of the major publishers to be totally unacceptable.

It seems to me whenever I look at the top name authors on Amazon I find their ebooks «price was set by the publisher.»

For a surface - level look at how different ebook markets are faring — based on the only information available to those who can glean it — read Porter Anderson's full coverage of Vienna - based industry consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart's report to the recent Publishers» Forum conference in Berlin.

Projects like Hugh Howey's Author Earnings are already maximizing on the available information to help authors make sound decisions concerning publishing route, ebook pricing, and more, but traditional publishers are also slowly coming along in terms of looking at all the possible pieces of information surrounding a book or author, and using that information to drive consumer engagement.

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.

Our launching customer was a small forward looking publisher in the Netherlands, but eBook watermarking really took off when UK based Pottermore decided to use it for the Harry Potter eBooks in 2012.

Some publishers rely on ads and radio interviews, others rely on eBook promotions and reviews, and still others look to blogs, email lists, and social media strategies.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

What does an ebooks marketplace look like if, in addition to libraries, content providers are equally committed to a sustainable ecosystem that enables viability for all players — publishers, vendors, authors, libraries and, of course, readers?

These are the best sellers of tomorrow that needs to be found, in the multitude of ebooks that are available, by the traditional publishers who are looking for the next success story in writing.

Riffle Select is a new service for authors and publishers who are looking to reach new readers through limited - time ebook deals.

Authors looking for lessons in ebook writing, design, and marketing — examples, ideas, and tips — should visit Joel Friedlander's Self - Publisher's Quick & Easy Guides.

And knowing how crap the ebook in general will be, it'd probably still look a lot nicer than if you enabled all styles and let the publisher's incompetence shine through.

He notes that the potential inherent in eBooks hasn't been particularly well understood or appreciated by bigger publishers — a phenomenon that he and Shelf are looking forward to capitalizing on by filling the gap with the eBook version of Final Appearance.

But... I'd like to use this current crisis and her point about Kobo shafting small publishers as an excuse to look at what the ebook market looks like for a self - or small publisher.

As a publisher, and one early to capitalize on the eBook market, Harlequin has always known this about covers and matching customer expectations with a consistent look and feel — they package their books and different series of books with a consistent and predicable look and feel.

Unfortunately, a report that was released earlier this year showed that one way publishers are looking into protecting authors is to ban off - site or remote ebook lending, thereby requiring patrons to come into their local libraries in order to borrow ebooks, essentially destroying one of the key advantages to e-reading, namely, the portability and anywhere access to ebooks.

Self - published authors of genre fiction are a driving force in the ebook market and so we are looking forward to offering Smashwords» 250,000 titles to all the users of the txtr platform in 20 countries, alongside bestsellers from well - known publishers.»

For those shoppers who plan to spend today bundled up inside and taking advantage of perks like discounts and free shipping on different retail websites, don't forget to take a look at the Wordplay Shakespeare site, as the publisher of side - by - side translations of some of Shakespeare's best loved titles will be gifting copies of the enhanced ebook for Macbeth in a random drawing to new subscribers to the newsletter.

Readmill only launched its iPhone app in February of this year, but has already established partnerships with eighty different publishers who are looking to working directly with their readers as they bypass typical ebook distribution outlets like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

If you are a new author, or a publisher looking for help optimizing Amazon's services to help sell books (or eBooks), give me a call.

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.

Publishers quite simply do not care what the ebook version looks like.

Publishers looking to sell highly formatted eBooks should convert their eBooks to ePub before uploading them via PubIt!

At BEA last week I spent a lot of time with publishers looking for eBook fixed layout format enlightenment and discussing the finer points of fixed layout support for dedicated devices and cross-platform apps.

While other major publishers have been adopters of ebook lending on some scale, Potash's admiration was for a publisher to look at the very clear data on how lending actually supports authors and publishers, and make a strong decision to support it.

by Joanna Penn looks at the choice self - publishers make between ebooks and print books

«Whether you're a new publisher, looking to grow (like us), or you've been around since the dawn of eBooks, I highly recommend INscribe Digital.»

As for there not being a wide selection of children's lit for ebooks he needs to quit looking at over priced traditional publishers and toward the enormous number of self - publishing authors who are bypassing the gatekeepers and publishing youth orientated literate by the bit loads every month now.

We range from enterprise - level solutions for top industry publishers, to full - service eBook and print services for small and mid-sized publishers looking for a one - stop solution.

If patrons stop looking to libraries to supply ebooks because libraries can't get ebooks from a publisher or can only afford a few very expensive ebooks that have long hold lines, then the patron will look elsewhere.The choice is to buy from the publisher or download illegally.

The impact will be a direct sales platform for ebooks, a publisher - branded iPad app, a storefront that can be blended with the publishers look and feel, along with an author portal and publisher portal.»

With hundreds of thousands of titles available from major publishers, as well as independent authors, Axis 360 is your single source for the eBook and eAudiobook titles your users will be looking for.

I don't see it quite happening in the UK yet, but will look further into what you are doing to bring eBook lending into a rational model (while protecting the financial well - being of authors and publishers).

According to a guest post by Jonas Lennermo for Publishing Perspectives,» Publishers look at e-lending as a threat to their business, arguing that it might cannibalize print sales or even block the rise of a commercial ebook market altogether.

What I'd like to see designers (or, more likely, publishers or production editors who are making these decisions) avoid is just dumping the print book cover, whatever it looks like, into the tiny space of the ebook cover.

Your eBook will look and read like a quality trade - publisher eBook (even better), helping you standout out from the crowd.

An interesting discussion on how publishers look at the pricing of eBooks http://tinyurl.com/SFXeBook.

If you are frustrated with your lack of success finding a publisher... if you've looked into companies that will publish your book for you and been appalled at what they charge... if you wish you better understood what the new printing and ebook technologies meant in terms of your options... then this little book can help.

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