Sentences with word «ebookseller»

We'll use Amazon's Kindle store — the largest ebookseller in most countries — as our case study.

Amazon, and other ebooksellers like Apple and Barnes & Noble, probably can't be removed entirely from the used ebook market, since those books are — for now, anyway — largely bound by the prescriptions of digital rights management.

Contract terms will be similar, whether you are dealing directly with ebooksellers, or granting rights to a distributor to act on your behalf.

Japan's BookLive has also been relegated to the second tier of ebooksellers by foreign competition.

A typical minimum balance for the large ebooksellers is US$ 10, or as much as US$ 100 if you elect to be paid by check.

What I'd Like to See from eBooksellers in 2013: A Holiday Wishlist by Edward Robertson (Great analysis of strenghts and weaknesses of Amazon, Nook etc..)

The Canadian - grown and now Japanese - owned ebookseller Kobo has ebook operations and retail partnerships in the US, Canada, Germany, UK, France, Holland, and Japan, with launches planned soon for Italy and Brazil.

Most ebooksellers will keep about 30 - 50 % of the sale price.

eREPORT: How important is the DRM issue to the commercial success of what you're doing (given that the vast majority of ebook sales go through ebooksellers with DRM applied)?

Google was alone among the major ebooksellers in not having its own e-reading device...

You'll face some legal issues when you start to sell through overseas ebooksellers or distributors, especially relating to tax and residency.

If you want to hone your skills marketing to ebookseller customers, the best place to start is with Amazon as the following research confirms:

Sure, occasionally they offer some discounts on a VERY small selection of (always older) ebooks, and the discounts on books are similar for al ebooksellers.

This smartphone growth in Vietnam has enabled companies like Wattpad to develop a large user base in Vietnam, relatively speaking, compared with other indigenous companies such as local ebooksellers Alezaa and Sachweb.

It will have an added incentive to quicken the pace with the announcement from US number two ebookseller Barnes & Noble that it will be rolling out its successful Nook internationally in 2012.

Having complete and accurate metadata will also improve your chances of having your book picked up by search engines, library catalogs, and ebookseller websites.

Core metadata is the essential operational data that distributors and ebooksellers need in order to list and sell an ebook.

Ebooksellers handle tens or hundreds of thousands of ebooks.

Amazon, though the best - known, isn't the only ebookseller in town.

It remains to be seen whether other publishers will try the no - DRM experiment, whether it will become the dominant model (as it did in the music industry, eventually), and whether it will be successful in maintaining and even increasing competition among ebooksellers.

Random House New Zealand is excused at this point because it doesn't yet have a New Zealand ebookseller operating (we hope that changes soon).

However, many independent publishers — especially publishers of technology books — and a fair number of smaller ebooksellers do.

The deal itself and the fact that it is with the biggest, baddest ebookseller AND bookseller on the planet has traditional publishing Royals hunkering down in the castle in the futile hope that they can survive the coming indie siege.

In 2012, Brazil became the latest battleground for the big international ebooksellers.

Ebooksellers like Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Google, and the many booksellers who use their technology, rely on the EPUB standard to access a large range of ebooks.

The pricing experimentation Kobo has seen from publishers large and small will likely continue, as they work with ebooksellers to drive visibility by pricing select titles at pocket change for a limited time.

Many of the principles you'll learn from Amazon will apply to other ebooksellers, though in many areas Amazon remains ahead of its competitors.

When you hand over an ebook file, you lose this check and rely entirely on the trustworthiness of the distributor or ebookseller, the accuracy of record keeping, and the security of their systems from hacking or theft of ebook files, and a suitable agreement for end users to bind them to the usage terms for your files.

If you're working through a distributor, their fee will be deducted from the amount the ebookseller pays and will typically be charged in one or more of the following ways:

For this reason, you should carefully scrutinize potential distributors and ebooksellers, especially smaller operators.

As we saw in the earlier section on digital rights, much of the contract is about ensuring that you have all the necessary rights to the content and that you are assigning the necessary rights to the ebookseller.

Payments are subject to minimum account balances, whether you're dealing with a distributor or directly with the ebookseller.

Each ebookseller has its own distribution agreement.

The EPUB can work on all other devices, and may be sold through Barnes & Noble and other ebooksellers.

The two most common ways for small publishers to deliver metadata are online form - filling or by filling in an Excel spreadsheet template supplied by the ebookseller.

There are other metadata items you will want to submit, or will have to submit for some ebooksellers, but the list above covers the common items.

Some ebooksellers like Amazon don't require ISBNs.

Some ebooksellers also insist that ebooks have ISBN numbers.

The ebookseller has the right to drop your listed retail price, and its payment to you, to match the lowest price for which any other site sells your ebook.

Even if you hold worldwide rights, there might be reasons you want to withhold some territories from an ebookseller, for instance to help an important local outlet or to conform to a local rights agreement.

If the wholesale price, that is, the price the ebooksellers have to pay the publisher, of the new James Patterson ebook novel is $ 13 and Amazon sells it for $ 10 and sells 1 million ebook copies for a $ 3 million loss, somehow Amazon must sell enough other books in that publisher's line to overcome the loss.

The publisher can usually specify whether they want the ebookseller to apply DRM to limit copying and other uses of your ebook.

eBooksellers.

While publishers wait for eReader device manufacturers to add new features and EPUB 3 support, eBooksellers are just as happy to wait.

Michael Tamblyn, the Chief Content Officer at Kobo, offers an update on the ebookseller's magazine store, kids shop and international expansion.