The phrase
"ebook vendors" refers to companies or platforms that sell electronic books (ebooks) online.
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Assuming you own the computer you're reading this post on, several of the
major ebook vendors have desktop apps you can use to read their stuff.
For an overview
of ebook vendors (many of which also sell print books) and how to distribute to them, check out our blog post here.
A couple of the major
online ebook vendors are having minor to moderate technical difficulties that should be worked out shortly.
While often there is a need to add new volumes between already existing volumes, volume numbers like 1.5 and 3.2 won't be accepted
by ebook vendors.
For distributors that send out to
various ebook vendors, you will also need a generic epub with links to the author's website where additional purchase links can be found.
It's not terrible by any means, but it offers nowhere near the level of discovery and top list options you get with the two
leading ebook vendors.
The company's ebooks are also distributed
through ebook vendors, and titles are available through unlimited simultaneous user access.
I'd really like to have a current, smaller screen, low - cost Android tablet to test and review library
market ebook vendors.
I've seen contradictory references, though, as to whether the
major ebook vendors are actually properly supporting this.
But the negatives, the uncertainties of where the ebook market is headed, and the current restrictions
most ebook vendors have placed on their products often outweigh the benefits.
Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler recently terminated the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract
with ebook vendor OverDrive to become a beta tester of 3M's new Cloud Library ebook lending service.
Deciding where to publish your ebook can be difficult — there are so
many ebook vendors out there!
As of this morning I can confirm that the price is set on all the major
ebook vendors where Carina does business.
A spokesperson for library
eBook vendor OverDrive exclaimed, «We're having to completely revamp our app, again, but soon it will give access to every one of the Amazon Library Co-Opteration titles.
ISBNs are required for print books, but no major
eBook vendor requires them for eBooks (except for Smashwords which can provide one for free).
From Library Journal: «In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from
library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires.»
With IngramSpark, you can distribute your ebooks on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, and several other
smaller ebook vendors.
I wish TitlePage Plus had taken a more agnostic approach and fostered local
eBook vendors rather than bringing in another overseas one.
None of these things are specifically directed at Amazon except insofar as they are the
biggest ebook vendor.
DRM not only limits what a buyer can do with the book they just bought, it also locks them into a
specific eBook vendor.
Library ebook vendor OverDrive recently published a list of public libraries that exceeded 1 million digital checkouts in 2014, and Toronto Public Library represented Canada well with over 2 million checkouts, topping the list alongside Washington's King County Library System, one of the busiest libraries in the US.
We recommend putting your ebook on Kobo, in addition to selling it on one of the
larger ebook vendors.
Particularly in Brazil, the growth will hugely benefit from two factors: several
eBooks vendors started selling eBooks last year and there is a possibility that the Brazilian senate is discussing a bill to «make both eBooks and dedicated E-Ink readers tax - free.»
(Note: Carina Press's own site does not have gifting functionality, so if you'd like to give Valor or Vengeance as a gift, you should do so via one of the major
ebook vendor sites.)
The
obsession ebook vendors have with silos and their antipathy towards easy interop is crippling their only competitive advantage over Amazon, the one big thing they can use to increase the benefit a reader gets from their ecosystem.
The one thing the EPUB ecosystem can offer that Amazon can't, is tight interoperability between
unrelated ebook vendors, services, and reading apps.
(
Why ebook vendors aren't doing more interesting things on Android where they aren't held back by the platform owner's policies is beyond me, but that's a blog post for a different day.)
It makes some sense that they would want out of the tablet market for good, since other tablets can run the Nook app, but how would they be a
competitive ebook vendor if there are no dedicated e-readers compatible with their books?
Like you, I would love to see Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other
ebook vendors release title - level sales data.
ReadersFirst strongly supports library readers» privacy and advocates that library
eBook vendors collect data on reading habits only with readers» full knowledge, only if a library also agrees for it readers, and data not be shared with any one except for libraries — and only then for each individual library's specific readers.
Thirdly, I mentioned epub, or it could be any standard file type that I can open in my iBooks app, kinkle, or random off - brand E-reader, but many
ebook vendors insist on making their ebooks only available via their own atrocious apps, which if I indulged them in this folly, would lead to my tablets being overrun with random apps and my book collection scattered across them.
Many
ebook vendors charge the cost of a print title plus a certain percentage for the ebook, so librarians will want to find out what the cost of each ebook is in relation to its print counterpart.
«Canadian -
based ebook vendor Kobo pretty much are ebooks in Australia — at least in terms of local ebookstores.
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