Set up your BookShop ™ page and sell directly to your readers and earn 85 % of
your eBook retail price.
With the greater emphasis at this year's FutureBook event on the important of expanding into international markets, and with
ebook retail giants like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo making headway into bringing ebooks to farther and farther reaches, there has to be a reason for someone to press the buy button on a book written by a Sudanese crime writer or an Indonesian sci fi author.
there is no incentive for Vietnamese publishers to digitise when there is
no ebook retail infrastructure in place to justify the costs.
With the popularity of leaving reviews online for everything from books to consumer goods, more and more consumers are relying on reviews posted on
ebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on what books are deserving of a five - star rating.
Places to Promote Your eBook for Free (Or Low Cost) Here are several hundred ebook listing sites, Kindle freebie sites, book review sites, author listing sites, a few
ebook retail sites, and Facebo...
This post is now a resource for writers and authors, that covers the top
eBook retail platforms along with the royalty rate offered by each retailer.
Also, Kobo owns OverDrive — the ebook distributor that's critical to the U.S. library market — and has
an ebook retail partnership with Flipkart, the most significant book retailer in India; those affiliations can be very helpful if your books do well and catch the attention of Kobo's marketers and promotions managers.
The free eReader is designed to be compatible with eBooks2go.com,
the eBook retail store, from where readers can browse and shop hundreds of eBooks.
As Buroker points out, bundles are selling quite well on
ebook retail sites right now, as readers look for content to read over the holidays and as they invest money in a savings such as this.
This requirement of an interest age rating may have stemmed from the recent controversy surrounding explicit titles that were available — some say maliciously so, which a self - policed interest age rating may not prevent — in the children's book sections of a variety of
ebook retail websites, an issue that caused several retailers to make sweeping deletions of book titles until the matter could be resolved.
Following the backlash from both sides of the publishing industry last fall over the removal of so - called «offensive» content from
ebook retail websites, booksellers have become more cautious about the titles they let slip through.
The Paid eBook Review Argument — With the popularity of leaving reviews online for everything from books to consumer goods, more and more consumers are relying on reviews posted on
ebook retail platforms — presumably, reviews that were posted by individuals who actually read the books they are reviewing — to give them a head's up on which books are deserving of a five - star rating.
There are some things that authors must keep in mind, though, especially when considering the implications of a global
ebook retail market.
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.
Right now the focus remains strongly on a traditional
eBook retail model, but we're open to options that will make it easier for our fans to get our content, as long as the business model continues to make sense.
If I could hook all of
their ebook retail services to Readmill so that all of my purchases are automatically added to my library, then I, as a consumer, can begin to treat them as a single market.
As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold through most major
ebook retail outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the price range of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.
Here are 232 ebook listing sites, Kindle freebie sites, book review sites, author listing sites, a few
ebook retail sites, and Facebook ebook groups (which I will try to keep updated with your help).
The information asymmetry — exacerbated by the information hoarding done by the big
ebook retail players — the growth in dishonest actors, and the increasing disincentive for honest actors to even participate at all, make ebooks an ideal candidate for the lemon dynamic.
If Apple made ebook development tools that targeted EPUB and not a proprietary format, the non-Amazon side of
ebook retail would have more diversity of titles and would be more competitive.
On one side you have self - destructive madmen like the big publishers who have done the following lovely things to
their ebook retail partners:
«We are launching
our ebook retail platform and membership service targeting book clubs,» explained Librify co-founder and CEO Joanna Stone Herman in an interview with Good e-REader.
Throughout the recent controversy over inappropriate and explicit content being listed in
ebook retail websites alongside children's and middle grade titles, the same questions kept coming to the surface: how did this happen, and how do we prevent it?
On the same day that the Times of India reported on the possible reasons for a lagging
ebook retail market in India, news sources announced an education initiative in the Indian state of Kerala that will put digital textbooks in the hands of nearly four million students and educators by June of this year.
Sony has entered
the eBook retail market with the launch of Reader Store UK, a one - stop shop for the purchase of digital editions of old and new fiction and non-fiction books.However, while it has an online presence to browse and search for books, purchasing... Read more
We started Author Earnings.com because we want authors to have visual insights into what's happening on the largest
ebook retail store in the world.
These ebooks retail for $ 985.
With this feature smaller and self publishers have a way distribute ebooks directly to their readers without using existing
ebook retailers.
This is the largest, broadest and most significant Smashwords - specific promotion yet undertaken by
any ebook retailer.
It all comes back to the fact that based on the way
ebook retailers manage things, you don't actually OWN your ebooks.
If you publish your work to Smashwords, and your eBook is approved for the premium catalog because you followed the instructions in the style guide, then your eBook will eventually appear on all the major
eBook retailer sites.
Some U.K. - based
ebook retailers responded with public apologies, and WHSmith went so far as to shut down its website altogether, releasing a statement saying that it would reopen «once all self - published eBooks have been removed and we are totally sure that there are no offending titles available.»
Get in - depth information about choosing an e-publishing platform; hiring editors, designers, publicists, and other freelancers; working with
ebook retailers; registering ISBNs; creating EPUB files from scratch; marketing your work; and more.
I will post links as soon as I have links to
every ebook retailer!!
First, there was the introduction of the KDP Select Program that forced authors to choose between Amazon and every other online
ebook retailer for -LSB-...]
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Right now, the Booku.com site is just operating as a standalone
ebook retailer but once it's bedded in, Wehrner hopes he'll be able to offer the technology to other booksellers with their own branding.
With Smashwords, their distribution offers the widest possible network of
ebook retailers for me.
It doesn't sell books directly, but offers books from authors that are available through major
ebook retailers and devices.
Where does an indie publisher turn if they want their eBook available in «all»
eBook retailing stores?
Government sources have assured local publishers and
ebook retailers they are investigating the matter and have assured a level playing field for all though that is not expected to happen anytime soon.
Interestingly, these are the very tactics that so many outspoken critics have blasted online
ebook retailers for, namely, setting ridiculously unachievable prices for books and using their clout and influence to wield their authority in the industry.
After iBooks comes Barnes & Noble's Nook store, which despite its steepening downward slide over the past two years, still remains the number three
eBook retailer with about 7 - 8 %.
«KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).»
The final product can be used for publication on Amazon's Kindle Store, Apple's iBooks or any other
ebook retailer.
Nor do other
ebook retailers.
For years, authors and readers alike have bemoaned the «glut» of content available from online
ebook retailers.
GoodeReader first covered
ebook retailer startup Bilbary earlier this year, as well as at their meet up during this year's BookExpo America publishing event.
In the US, more than 95 % of all consumer ebook purchases — and probably closer to 99 % of them — go through just five major
ebook retailers.
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ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).