Likewise, Freese argues that publishers are doing themselves a disservice by not offering libraries the opportunity to promote backlist titles, or
ebooks by their new authors and mid-list authors.
They publish original
ebooks by new authors, and have a wide selection of free public domain ebooks and original titles.
Not exact matches
PR WEB - Oct 13 - The
new eBook, written
by author and communications professional Susan Torbitt, is about dating experiences singles go through when online dating.
The above files are mostly classics, with a sprinkling of
new, but the 1.6 million
eBooks donated
by Wattpad are all
new works
by new authors.
The top news of the week touched upon waning
ebook sales for trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that
ebooks aren't books, the
new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting -
by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.
As one of the
authors, John Scalzi, pointed out, if the first day of
ebook bundle purchases was counted
by the
New York Times, all the
authors would be on the bestseller list and this clearly demonstrates the worth of the format.
Bear in mind that this does not include sales
by self - published
authors, which is the fastest growing segment in
ebooks thanks to the many
new tools and options available.
** The official companion app for Marisha Pessl's
new novel, NIGHT FILM ** ** Scan select images in NIGHT FILM with the Decoder app to unlock exclusive multimedia content ** ** Works with any version of the book — both print and eBook ** Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, NIGHT FILM is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physi
new novel, NIGHT FILM ** ** Scan select images in NIGHT FILM with the Decoder app to unlock exclusive multimedia content ** ** Works with any version of the book — both print and
eBook ** Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, NIGHT FILM is a superb literary thriller
by the
New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physi
New York Times bestselling
author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
New free
eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published
authors seeking to capitalize on growing e-reader usageRaleigh, NC, September 13, 2011 — Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today the launch of the free Lulu EPUB Converter, a tool allowing content creators to convert popular word processing formats, such as a Word document, into sellable EPUBs, the most widely adopted format used
by eReaders.
There are also some individual
authors, such as Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, who strongly believe they boost their sales
by making some of their books available as free
ebooks — and who also understand what libraries do for building their audience and attracting
new buyers.
For newbies you are right as every
new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted
by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the
ebooks are the way to go, period.
Specific, in - depth nuts - and - bolts guides include The Unofficial Scrivener Workbook
by M.J. Carlson, Excel for Writers
by M. L. Humphrey (walks through how to create spreadsheets that track time spent writing, page production, year - to - year metrics, and keep track of your works), Excel for Self - Publishers
by M. L. Humphrey (amazingly useful for indie
authors, how to track ads and effectiveness, revenue
by sales channel, keywords, amazon reports, and more), and The
Author's Guide to Vellum
by Chuck Heintzelman (an incredible
new app for producing print and
eBooks; I'm a total convert myself).
We had 490 downloads, which is 490
new readers who may go on to buy other books
by the same
author, or who might leave reviews on the
ebook, or who might mention the book to a friend, helping promote it
by word of mouth.
I know readers say that now, that they would not try a
new debut
author at $ 2.99 but this is because there has been
ebooks introduced at $ 0.99 in the first place
by Amazon for years;) but if $ 2.99 was the absolute minimum available from the beginning readers would buy a book at that price because it would be considered the «entry price».
Giving It Away: Why Fiction
Authors Should Offer Free Ebooks by Jason Kong explores the reasoning that suggests new authors spread their work as widely as p
Authors Should Offer Free
Ebooks by Jason Kong explores the reasoning that suggests
new authors spread their work as widely as p
authors spread their work as widely as possible
Regarding the catalogue, how much is
new vs. how much is work returned to «print» digitally
by authors holding
ebook rights for older work?
In this issue: - Article: «What you Should Not Include in your Non-Fiction Book Proposal,»
by Debra W. Englander -
New Program Gives
Ebooks a Quality Seal for Consumers - Digital Book World Conference — Interesting Facts for
Authors - Ben Cameron, Director of Sales and Marketing for UK and Europe, to Speak at Self - Publishing Conference in UK - Display Your Book at the 2013 London Book Fair
Posted
by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Yesterday, with great fanfare, Apple rolled out two
new applications: iBooks 2, with
new features aimed at students; and iBooks
Author, which allows individuals to create iPad - optimized
ebooks.
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-...]
The pain of not having to get the personalized signature of the favorite
author in his or her own
ebook is going to be erased with the amazing invention that is going to be introduced
by Mr. Waters at the Book Expo America in
New York in the month of May — Autography!
Umstead's
Ebook of the Week can be found
by clicking here at Smashwords, and readers may enter this code to receive their free copy at checkout: HF87Y The
author is also giving away several copies of the first book in series, Gabriel's Redemption, to
new subscribers to his blog.
The Scholastic Storia App for Android offers highly - curated titles, from vibrant picture
eBooks for younger readers to the hottest
new series for older readers, including fiction and nonfiction titles
by both
new and established
authors.
Whether you agree with Macmillan's push for
new terms of sale for their
ebooks or not, one thing that's been particularly impressive is the extremely vocal support they've received from their
authors, particularly those published
by their sci - fi / fantasy imprint Tor / Forge.
We have had a great deal of success in bringing out, promoting and selling
ebook editions of works
by new authors as well as bringing out
ebook editions of out of print books.
For the past two years, Ben Macklin's company, father - and - son venture BWM Books, has been helping published
authors give
new life to their out - of - print and unpublished works
by self - publishing them in
ebook and print - on - demand formats.
I am delighted to announce publication of a
new, «double -
ebook» Kindle edition of HUNTER, paired with the hot - selling SNAKE SKIN
by bestselling
author CJ Lyons!
One remarkable
by - product of the Kindle Revolution during the past few months is the extent to which some Kindle
authors are achieving a very
new kind of indie rock star status as a result both of their
ebook sales and of the fact that they have found various ways to build special followings and connections -LSB-...]
Authors will also want to check out a new eBook by Karen Robertson about how more than two dozen authors created a bo
Authors will also want to check out a
new eBook by Karen Robertson about how more than two dozen
authors created a bo
authors created a book app.
In May, Rakuten Kobo extended its global reach
by creating Kobo Plus — a
new revenue - sharing model for
authors distributing
eBooks to the Netherlands and Belgium.
According to a
New York Times article
by David Streitfeld, publishers at a number of houses are concerned that Amazon's ability to pull in major bestselling
authors, as well as take away the need for agents through its
ebook publishing model, Kindle Direct Publishing, and through
author submissions to its imprint.
The bottom line is that Amazon's
eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed
authors lose out on
by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their
new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed
authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish
new books more frequently than once a year.
tinyurl.com/AmazonEntrepreneurs Transformations is a free 200 - page
ebook published in 2014
by Amazon about «
authors, innovators, and small businesses» around the world who are all enjoying
new success using Amazon.
A
new report claims that self - published
authors have surged to 31 % of
ebook sales on Amazon.com, and are now earning more
ebook royalties than writers published
by the «Big five» traditional publishers.
While self - pubbed
authors generally price their
ebooks lower than $ 9.99 (the royalties they receive
by Amazon are cut in half otherwise), indies have responded to the
new ruling with an average 5 % price increase.
This Kindle
ebook pairs the novella with Nathanel West's second most famous work, The Day of the Locust, another critical look at American society, and the
ebook comes with a
new introduction
by author Jonathan Lethem (
author of the novel Fortress of Solitude).
Young Adult
author David Gatward is writing a
new series of
ebooks featuring 4 young kids who are kidnapped
by a nefarious criminal Dr Crookshanks and his accomplice, Professor Kaufman.
Dear Mr. A. Maklad, Just got the chance to read a dialogue of Publishing Perspectives about Arabic
Ebooks, For me as a
new author, (Paperbook, and have been convinced
by the articles, So what is the possibility to»
ebook» this issue which is under distribution now
by» Dar Almaaref».
But Ed Victor, a leading English agent based in London, told me at the recent Book Expo in NYC that he's planning to start his own
new imprint to publish
new ebook versions for his
authors who have out - of - print books as well as original titles
by those not wanting to go the traditional route any longer.
If I'm a «Prime» customer and entitled to one «free
ebook» each month, am I going to blow my freebee on an unknown
author of a $ 2.99 novel or take the $ 12.95 «Buried Prey»
by John Sandford??? That's a no - brainer — but that's assuming his publisher participates in the
new program!!!
A
new bookselling start - up funded
by authors and other investors is forming partnerships with publishers and independent booksellers and aims to replace the Google
eBooks re-seller program as the go - to platform for indies interested in selling e-books.
Blio is a
new ebook software platform created
by Ray Kurzweil — a well - known inventor,
author, and futurist — that preserves a book's original layout, including fonts, images, -LSB-...]
But publishers are not adjusting their game plans for
new platforms, and are hurting themselves, and
authors,
by making
ebooks prohibitively expensive (and thus encourage piracy).
Blio is a
new ebook software platform created
by Ray Kurzweil — a well - known inventor,
author, and futurist — that preserves a book's original layout, including fonts, images, and tables, according to the Blio website.
Although
ebooks are easier to buy, I don't think it's as easy to choose your next book
by a
new author — even though Amazon and all the other retailers work hard to make it so.
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You are an
ebook author, your titles are published
by New Concepts Publishing and Wordbeams Publishing, what prompted you to consider epublishing and why would you recommend it to other
authors?
Rather than paying exorbitant prices for advertising (which may not be effective in the
new media world anyway), you enlist a team of happy readers who love your
eBook and offer to help spread the word
by talking to friends, tweeting about the book and actively sharing their love for your
eBook and you as an
author.
Agents write the next chapter of the
ebook revolution — Agents, serving the economic best interests of the best - selling
authors, will bring
new credibility to self publishing
by encouraging
authors to proactively bypass publishers and work directly with
ebook distribution platforms.
amazon has done great things for books,
by truly establishing
eBooks as a reading medium, making it the
new mainstream standard, all the while opening the doors for
authors to publish their own work.
Driven
by rapid growth in Generation Y readership, it's estimated that nearly half of the 80 million readers of
ebooks in the US want free or heavily discounted
ebooks, more entertainment value, and are willing to accept advertising; leaving
authors and publishers to scramble for
new ways to monetize their content.