Especially if you have - or are considering other
ebook retail outlets.
Numerous new
ebook retail outlets have materialized even in that short time — we'll be looking at a couple below — and we're hearing more and more reports of indie US and UK authors not just selling overseas in increasing numbers, but selling in the most unexpected places, on platforms the authors never knew existed, in places they never knew ebooks could reach.
Within a few weeks of publishing, your eBook will be available for sale in 23 major regional
eBook retail outlets across a wide variety of territory and genre - specific stores, including Waterstones (UK), eChristian (Intl.), eBooks.com (Intl.), and OverDrive which serves more than 33,000 libraries worldwide, including 12,000 schools & colleges.
As Kindle sales, and B&N's Nook and Apple's iBookstore and sales through the multiplying
ebook retail outlets grow to 10 % of group revenue US and UK publishers can begin to plausible include revenue projections for digital editions of new titles.
Pennsauken, NJ — BookBaby announced two new major add - ons to its eBook distribution ecosystem — Google Play and OverDrive — two of the largest digital
eBook retail outlets in the world, certain to help expand the reach and sales of BookBaby's self - published authors.
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.
Not exact matches
And when you tie POD in directly with distribution, as Ingram has done with IngramSpark ®, customers get POD service bundled with
eBook distribution to 39,000
retail outlets and libraries.
«There is an incredible appetite for eReaders and
eBooks in Hong Kong, but until today, a limited selection of over-priced eReaders has curbed adoption,» said Chris Li of Swindon Book Co., Ltd. «By making the Kobo Wireless eReading easily available to customers at Swindon's
retail and online
outlets, we are solving this problem and meeting customer demand.»
Agency pricing, for those who have not been following the most important development in the growth of the book market, enabled the publishers to enforce a uniform price for each
ebook title across all
retail outlets
For now, Nielsen will be gathering these sales numbers from four of the largest
ebook outlets, Amazon, Apple's bookstore, Barnes & Noble, and Google Books, which is an added incentive to self - published authors to make sure their
ebooks are compatible and uploaded to those
retailers.
What actually may make this venture far more profitable than enhanced
ebooks from a few years ago is the building on the HTML5 platform for ease of consumption across multiple platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital publishing industry of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for authors and publishers to market, sell, and retrieve royalties on their titles, regardless of
retail outlet.
There were calls by other publishing executives to segregate
ebooks on
retail outlets based on the method of publication.
We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number of
retail outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and
ebook, the average reader will choose
ebook.
The Times / Byliner Originals will
retailer for $ 2.99 through the various
ebook retailers and the NYTStore, while the Vook titles — which already include 25
ebooks, with more to come in the next year — will sell for $ 1.99 through those same
outlets.
Obviously, the publishers are not happy with the sweeping changes in what has proven to be the largest
retail book
outlet for consumers in Canada, but supporters of the stores and its new model are quick to point out that the bookseller is simply trying to survive in the digital era; of course, the publishers themselves are also trying to survive the
ebook revolution, and losing some of their allies won't help.
«Please keep in mind that if your
eBooks are also available through distribution
outlets such as the iBookstore and Barnes & Noble they include encryption applied by the
retailer.
Would you rather have 20,000
ebook sales on Amazon, with no shot at bookstore placements or the New York Times bestseller list — or would you rather have only 5,000 of your print books scattered through local Barnes & Noble and other
retail outlets around the country?
These two
retail outlets are where the
ebook action is happening, and where the greatest benefits for authors are to be gotten — not to be confused with being had!!!
For authors using Draft2Digital to distribute
ebooks to
retailers, the
outlets just got better.
Release their
ebooks through as many other
retail outlets as possible.
They could have created their own
retail outlets to offer their titles in Kindle - compatible
ebook form.
The online
retailer «threatened the long - term, overall health of the book publishing industry,» said Penguin, «by creating barriers to entry, undercutting the margins and incentives of other sellers, fostering a perception of
ebooks as lowcost commodities, and threatening the viability of book publishers and authors, as well as other book selling
outlets vital to the marketing and promotion of books».
The publishing house assumes the costs of editing, design, manufacturing,
ebook conversion, distribution, marketing, publicity, and special sales (into
retail outlets not served by the publisher's book distributors).
Vearsa is an award - winning
eBook distribution service with a global reach of more than 1,000
retail outlets and 45,000
eBook libraries in over 110 countries.
«There is an incredible appetite for eReaders and
eBooks in Hong Kong but until today, a limited selection of over priced eReaders has curbed adoption,» said Chris Li of Swindon Book Co., Ltd. «By making the Kobo Wireless eReading easily available to customers at Swindon's
retail and online
outlets, we are solving this problem and meeting customer demand.»
Apple also actively supports Smashwords, which distributes
ebooks to multiple
retail outlets (B&N, Sony, Kobo, as well as Apple), while Amazon is hostile toward Smashwords authors, only grudgingly accepting a few of the bestselling
ebooks from it.
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