The e-book publisher announced last Friday that titles from its new «Premium Catalog» would be made available through the Barnes & Noble
eBookstore as well as through digital retailer Fictionwise, which was acquired by the bookseller in March.
As I said at the outset, the dedicated short - form
eBookstore as a standalone business seems to be challenged but there are still lots of opportunities to sell short - form writing when you step outside the Amazon bubble.
Google touts
their eBookstore as «open» because you can read the e-books on a number of devices, including dedicated e-book readers.
It is good (it is excellent) at the Google
ebookstore as long as I enter through the Powell's site, since Powell's is a Google Books affiliate.
Notwithstanding this, it makes sense for indie - authors to list their books in as many
ebookstores as possible, including the venerable U.S. - based retailer.
Not exact matches
Last month, another Aussie
ebookstore launched with plans to offer its platform to other booksellers
as a low cost, low complexity alternative to Google's service for getting online.
According to Google, the
eBookstore features «hundreds of thousands» of eBooks, and over three million free eBooks Google has scanned since 2004
as a part of its Google Books project.
Any
ebookstore that goes bankrupt would sell off its assets
as part of bankruptcy and so most of the time the customers would be taken care of.
All of my books can be found online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the Apple iBookstore, Google
eBookstore, Diesel Books, Books A Million, Sony
as well
as other retailers and libraries.
(More info on the Google
eBookstore's rebrand
as Google Play here.)
They went
as far
as forbidding Kobo from even mentioning in their app that they had an
ebookstore.
You now have a book you can get in Kindle and other
ebookstores, have printed on demand in small quantities and make available
as a download on your website.
In a statement released yesterday afternoon, Barnes & Noble announced the launch of the Barnes & Noble
eBookstore, which it says will stock every available e-book from every publisher,
as well
as e-book originals.
Kobo has had tremendous success both through its localized online
eBookstores that offer content in 60 languages across 190 countries,
as well
as through its network of premier retail partners.
Sainsbury's will be sending its customers an email by October 25 with a unique link and instructions on how to easily transfer their libraries to Kobo, which will allow access to books previously purchased at the Sainsbury's
eBookstore,
as well
as new purchases at Kobo.com.
Described by the developers
as a revolutionary eBook - oriented desktop publishing program, Playwrite can help put your creation into all of the major
eBookstores (including Amazon, Kobo, and Apple's iBookstore) and turn you into a successful author.
We'll learn how we can influence visitors to online
ebookstores, turning
as many of them
as we can into buyers of our titles.
One
eBookstore, Emily Books, which bills itself
as «An Indi (e) Bookstore,» has a subscription plan.
As the Kindle eBook content director for Amazon China, Jiang introduced more than 200 top Chinese publishing houses, and 24,000 quality eBooks, successfully establishing Kindle's
eBookstore in China.
Having all those creative heads together can mean an extraordinary book produced in
as little
as 4 - 6 weeks and ready to hit the
ebookstore shelves the minute you get it from them.
Pressbooks is a self - service platform you can use to make book files in the formats you need to publish in all the
ebookstores (Kindle and others) and through print - on - demand venues such
as IngramSpark, Lightning Source and CreateSpace.
This is set to dramatically increase now that the Canadian Booksellers Association and the consortium known
as Campus
eBookstore has opened the door for independent CBA members to publish on the Google platform.
Buy Kobo or Nook — add natively from Kobo and / or B&N plus,
as a third - party content, books bought from national
ebookstores.
With a Polish
ebookstore onboard, the device is tailored to their home market, but they sell InkBooks in other countries
as well from various Amazon websites.
Here are some links to a few major
ebookstores with a healthy selection of free ebooks that will work with free apps
as well
as ereaders, and some are cross-compatible between devices.
Similar to Amazon, Barnes & Noble offers a special section within its
ebookstore known
as the NOOK Newsstand that features over one thousand leading publications.
They will be able to purchase them from the Google
eBookstore or from independent bookseller partners
as well, Murray said.
«Google Play Books is the world's largest
ebookstore and offers readers like you smart technology that caters to your lifestyle — where you can start reading a book on your tablet at night and pick up where you left off the next day from your smartphone,
as well
as easily browse, skim, highlight and make notes,» said Google in a blog post.
So it looks like if this new project goes well,
as it is to be expected it will with the tremendous growth in e-readers worldwide, that Havon will launch a new
ebookstore in the North American market.
In the current climate of struggle to stay afloat
as an independent brick - and - mortar bookstore, many small time booksellers have found a friend in Google's
eBookstore.
At this time it's unclear what Sony plans to do with the few international
ebookstores they offer, but
as March 20th, 2014 Sony will close the Reader Store in the U.S. and Canada for good.
The app has the usual ebook settings and has a couple of
ebookstores built - in such
as Feedbooks and Project Gutenberg.
Because we all know that
as we speak, there are entrepreneurs all over the globe setting up adult oriented
ebookstores and all of those people want to keep any more «naughty» money out of Jeff Bezos» wallet.
The Google
eBookstore is the most recent entrant in the crowded e-book market, taking its place amongst such high - profile rivals
as Amazon's Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble's Nook store, and Apple's iBookstore.
But today,
as I was getting ready to write a post complaining about Kobo missing the deadline, I found that the Kobo
ebookstore does in fact work from Sony devices now.
The other method is to identify the preview content within the package document, allowing the
ebookstore or reading system to generate the preview (whether
as a standalone publication in the case of an
ebookstore, or by limiting access only to the specified preview content in the case of a reading system).
But, certainly
as far
as New Zealand is concerned, it points to a further challenge for all of us, namely that Random House New Zealand doesn't have a local
ebookstore that they could supply, whether they wanted to or not.
Developer Joseph Pearson open sourced the code and has also used it
as the basis of an ebook service called Booki.sh that powers Readings»
ebookstore.
All the major
ebookstores have tablet apps, and there are some great 3rd party reading apps
as well.
They are expected to come with WiFi for downloading ebooks directly from Sony's
ebookstore,
as well
as other software and hardware upgrades — no juicy details yet unfortunately.
NOOK customers can explore the content of
as many digital titles
as they wish, on any given day, including any available eBook for up to an hour per day; and to come, current - edition newspapers and magazines in the BN
eBookstore will be available for up to 20 minutes per day.
In addition to being sold in
as Kindle Singles, Byliner Originals are available from Barnes & Noble, in the Google
eBookstore and
as Quick Reads in Apple's iBookstore.
Few of the major
ebookstores, such
as Amazon or Barnes & Noble, currently feature PDF - formatted books for sale.
According to Lynch, you can download books to multiple devices; Barnes & Noble offers its latest eReader software across a number of device platforms, including mobile phones (iPhone, Blackberry) and PC and Mac computers, and
as part of Monday's announcement, noted that the
eBookstore will be available across all device platforms via the eReader software (acquired earlier this year from Fictionwise).
The
eBookstore, launched Monday, offers 700,000 titles according to Barnes & Noble's press release, but in a conference call after the release went out, Barnes & Noble clarified that it includes Google's 500,000 free public domain books
as part of that number.
One of them is Rakuten, an online store having the same owner
as Kobo
ebookstore.
OverDrive uses the exact same DRM
as on all the major
ebookstores.
A new Barnes & Noble
eBookstore will be integrated into the reader, serving
as its exclusive storefront.
The Digital Reader analyzes Amazon's decision to «stop the market share from dropping»
as it is facing the fierce competition from Google, Apple, Kobo, and local independent
ebookstores.
As I wrote some time ago, ebook daily deals are meant to bring traffic to the
ebookstore, not to make money on featured books.