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This is an excellent resource for indie authors and ebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance:

I have updated my Ebook Publishing Quick Reference Card (PDF) over at PublishYourOwnEbooks.com This is an excellent resource for indie authors and ebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance: The Main Ebook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue Chart...

So, for now, I'm using workarounds (such as ebook publishers who output content to various ebook formats) to create book promotion opportunities.

Not exact matches

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

The fight will continue, but ebooks from the three publishers who settled are expected to take a nose dive.

It's not easy to find a major publisher who is willing to get your novel out there but why leave your writing career in the hands of others when you can get your own ebook out there yourself.

Read Book marketing and ebook promotion tips for book authors, book publishers, self - publishing authors, and e-book publishers who want to sell more books.

For many eBook publishers and authors, knowing who is reading your work is as important as making it available in the first place.

It also works for publishers and authors who want to sell ebooks with Aerio.

In the latest sign of this disruption, author John Locke — who earlier this year became the first self - published author to sell a million ebooks — has signed an innovative deal with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance of power.

The Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc., a leading publisher based in San Francisco, is running a kindle ebook promotion that is the first of its kind — they are giving everyone who purchases the Kindle edition of the Amazon memoir Inside the Giant Machine: An Amazon.com Story the print version of the book for free.

Publishers in the know (and I shake my head at those traditional publishers who have not embraced eBook production and sensible pricing) publish in every wayPublishers in the know (and I shake my head at those traditional publishers who have not embraced eBook production and sensible pricing) publish in every waypublishers who have not embraced eBook production and sensible pricing) publish in every way they can.

This phenomenon has been shared for years from companies like Kobo and OverDrive, who've worked to convince publishers that library lending and ebooks are good for their business.

It's not publishers who now restrict the fact that you might want to lend your ebook to a friend or family member.

If you are an existing customer who purchased an ebook from a major publisher between April 1st 2010 and May 21st 2012 you will be getting more credits.

Join those of us who are tired of being dictated to by a few large traditional publishers, snobbish reviewers, and uninformed columnists, and buy ebooks published by real people for real people — Indie Authors.

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.

Privately held Smashwords operates the world's leading eBook publishing and distribution platform serving over 40,000 authors, publishers and literary agents who distribute over 125,000 eBooks with Smashwords.

The argument that self publishing is the last resort of people who weren't good enough to get a publishing deal shows an embarrassing lack of both research and understanding, both of publishing companies, ebook publishers and the authors themselves.

One of the early top names in travel ebooks was Lonely Planet, a publisher who happily morphed from the printed pocket guides to each country or region into adoption of full - color ebooks that could be used both online and offline.

On one side you have self - destructive madmen like the big publishers who have done the following lovely things to their ebook retail partners:

Yes, traditional publishers are all competing for the important in - store shelf space, but there are enough self published authors who are selling gangbusters in ebooks, who would do well on shelves.

Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self - publishing several of his unpublished novels in ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own than with a traditional publisher, became indie publishing's most vocal champion.

No, the book can not be clawed back, much in the same way that once a library purchases a print book, the publisher can't take it back, of if you sell an ebook at an ebook retailer, you can't take the book from customers who purchased it even if you later remove the book from the retailer.

That is the question... The question that is on the mind of many self - publishers who are in the midst of publishing their eBook on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.

Since 2007, she has been an author - marketer who has helped indie authors, as well as the «Big 5» book publishers, reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth.

According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their websites.

(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.

eBook sales statistics for October 2009 have been released from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) who collects these statistics in conjunction with the IDPF.

This global focus lead them to publish on Amazon without having the means to access a foreign bank account, a prerequisite for publishers who want to work with the giant ebook retailer.

Short answer: If the states» settlement with the publishers is finalized, customers who bought an ebook from any one of the five settling publishers between April 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012 will be eligible for a refund of up to $ 3.06 per book.

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.

The publishers who are currently not participating in the library ebook market all seem to be worrying about the lack of «friction» in the library ebook lending transaction as far as the patrons are concerned.

Small market publishers who do not intend to market eBooks internationally must stay out of the way.

I think that pricing is typical for publishers who don't expect to sell many copies in ebook format.

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

A savvy ebook purchaser can often buy ebooks directly from the publishers who make them available.

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.

Bestseller lists themselves are increasingly either gamed by publishers or by ebook retailers themselves who are trying to shift their sales in one direction or another.

To address the needs of publishers who want to embed fonts into eBooks, Monotype Imaging is introducing a simple and low - cost font licensing model for eBooks.

Most of that fluff and blather is coming from new intermediaries who take a smaller cut than traditional publishers, while putting your eBook on a virtual shelf where no one who doesn't already know it exists will ever find it.

In any event, today Shatzkin criticized publishers who, having seized control of the pricing of ebooks, are not doing a very good job of using those prices to maximize sales revenue.

Sure, I get that Amazon and Macmillan — one of the publishers who signed onto Apple's iBook, which allows publishers to set their own prices — are negotiating ebook prices.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist — both for publishers who hold the contracts for backlist books, and authors who wa... -LSB-...]

But as an entity that takes advertising dollars from publishers and who puts the reviews on ebook retail platforms, Goodreads has some measure of responsibility to ensure that their site is trustworthy.

ALA will meet face - to - face with CEOs and executives from Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin Group, three publishers who are currently preventing their titles from being part of eBook lending catalogs, although in Penguin's case the ban applies only to new releases published after November 2011.

People will seek alternatives, if anything, it is the publishers who are killing the ebook industry (not that I think it is anywhere close to being dead).

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.

While it might be tempting to be amused by the publishers who are recognizing the value to their bottom lines in working in digital publishing, this actually does lend an even greater acceptance to ebook publication.