Sentences with phrase «electronic book retailers»

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Greg previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Starz, an integrated global media and entertainment company, from January 2013 until December 2016; as a director of DIRECTV (and its predecessor), a provider of digital television entertainment services, from June 2008 to June 2010; as a director of Expedia, Inc.; an online travel company, from 1999 to 2003 and Chairman from 1999 to 2002; as a director of Starbucks Corporation, a retailer of specialty coffee, from 1999 to 2006; as a director of Barnes & Noble, Inc., a retailer of books and digital media, from September 2011 to April 2014; and as a director of Electronic Arts, Inc..

Also being asked to accept significant changes are authors and publishers, as Amazon and other electronic retailers attempt to rewrite the way book sales dollars are divided up.

Well partly it is due to the rising popularity of electronic book readers in the retail sphere.

Big W, one of the biggest discount retail stores in Australia, has announced they are venturing into the electronic book business as well.

If you're not familiar with the controversy, it has to do with Amazon (retailer of physical and electronic books) and Hachette (a publisher of same).

The Barnes Noble Nook (styled «nook») is a brand of electronic - book readers developed by American book retailer Barnes Noble, The nook ebook format is specific to the nook, can only be read by the nook, it is new EPUB format file with eReader DRM combination created for the nook, that is different with EPUB with Adobe ADEPT DRM

And a bid for 70 % of the ailing book retailing chain Barnes & Noble Inc. by Liberty Media Group was said by its top executives to be fueled by the company's e-reader, the Nook, and its electronic book platform.

The online retailing giant says that for the first time, it has sold more electronic copies of books than actual print editions.

Her efforts made Sudden Insight Publishing a reality, got my first book formatted and made available in ebook at all fine electronic retailers.

Publishers are concerned that so many successful new titles are sold for $ 9.99 or less on Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic book reader and Fictionwise, an e-book retailer owned by Barnes & Noble Inc..

Online retail giant Amazon said Monday that sales of electronic books for the Kindle have overtaken hardcover book sales.

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

On Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard - copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com, the company said in a statement Saturday.

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.

She mentioned it holds close to 10,000 books and he exclaims «its lighter then a which is a sure sign that electronic book readers are no longer a mysterious gadget only available online, but now is available at retail stores across the world.

Both Boarders and Barnes and Noble are in dire straights because of their overbloated retail chain, Barnes and Noble was seriously thinking of folding mid way last year, its only saving grace has been the popularity of their Nook E-Reader and selling electronic Books.

For those uninitiated in the world of comic books, this means that the day a book hits the stands in retail markets, the digital version will be available on the electronic devices at the same time.

Amazon INC and book publisher Penguin Group reached an agreement regarding the pricing of Penguin's electronic books, the online retailer and book publisher said Wednesday.

Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, to school and public libraries for every ebook or hardcover book sold at retail, up to 5,000 copies.

Sweden's Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore, the online retail giant said Tuesday.

Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers.

(AP)-- Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday it is introducing a new version of its higher - end Kindle at a lower price as competition among electronic - book readers intensifies.

Ingram Content Group is the world's largest wholesaler of print and electronic books to independent bookstores, bookstore chains, internet retailers, and specialty markets, as well as other wholesalers.

Online retail titan Amazon.com and bookselling giant Barnes & Noble dueled Tuesday for the devotion of digital book lovers with bargain - priced versions of their popular electronic readers.

Kobo is not content to just sell books but intends on offering its Kobo Touch in August in various German electronic store retail channels.

First, the electronic retailer tried to force the publishers to accept lower prices for their e-books, and retaliated against the ones who refused by yanking their books from its virtual shelves.

Some key relationships include; e-book distribution for 7 of the 10 largest US trade publishers, provider of electronic replica editions for The New York Times, e-book fulfillment for partners like Baker & Taylor / Blio and Harlequin, and book, magazine, and newspaper distribution to more than 50 digital retail marketplaces including Amazon, Google, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Sony.

If you're wondering which one to trust more, keep in mind that they are both projections and that it's worth looking at methodology: BookStats incorporates net sales revenue and unit data from nearly 2,000 U.S. publishers, then projects the size of the entire industry; PwC says that it looks at «retail spending by consumers on consumer books... and spending on books in electronic formats» and that it derives historical data «principally from confidential and proprietary sources» — including research group Informa Telecoms & Media — then projects.

The New York - based bookseller has been struggling to find its place in the retail landscape as more readers have shifted to electronic books and competition has grown from discount stores and online competitors.

Online retail titan Amazon.com on Thursday opened a virtual shop specializing in Spanish - language digital books for its popular Kindle electronic reading tablets.

The majority of the population in Brazil has not gravitated towards the electronic versions of books yet, but this might change now that a major online retailer has entered the country.

Now in retail 9 models of electronic books with the display of type E-ink in the size 5 - 6 inches arrive.

We publish in paperback and in electronic formats and list on all major online retailers, standard international book catalogues and make available and promote to bookshops through our growing network of registered services and marketers.

[The Penguin Random House merger] could set off a long - expected round of consolidation as the industry adapts to the digital marketplace... The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world... [enabling] greater scale to deal with the challenges arising from the growth of electronic books and the power of Internet retailers.

Your book will be available through dozens of electronic retailers in formats readable by virtually all e-book readers - Kindle, Nook, Apple iPad, Sony Reader, Adobe Digital Editions and more.

According to the Justice Department, book publishers were worried in 2009 that Amazon, then the largest retailer of electronic books, was lowering the perceived wholesale value of the books, due to its strategy of discounting books for $ 9.99.

The electronic book companies, though waiving some of the initial fees to help build their libraries, variously plan to charge for retailing, distributing and converting the publisher's books into compatible formats.

The MFN stipulated that the publishers must offer their electronic books to Apple at 70 percent of the lowest price offered on the retail market elsewhere.

Amazon, maker of the popular Kindle e-reader and one of the biggest book retailers in the country, will have the exclusive rights to sell electronic editions of «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,» and a later work, «Principle - Centered Leadership.»

Cue quickly realized that, in order for the agency model to work, the same deal must be struck with all electronic book vendors, lest Apple's prices be undercut by other retailers.

As a result, you won't see them on the New York Times bestseller list, which discounts books that are only available from a single retailer, or on the subway: most are sold in electronic form at price points between $ 1.99 and $ 4.99.

I suggests it first concentrate on the other components of its electronic book or e-book retailing business: the content and the selling model.

Online retailer Amazon said Wednesday it had reached agreement with publisher Penguin on pricing of electronic books for the Kindle e-reader.

Online retail giant Amazon said Thursday that sales of digital books for the Kindle electronic reader have surpassed sales of print books.

Buy a book — printed or electronic — from independent bookshops and choose a reading device that doesn't lock you into buying from one retailer alone.

Amazon's success as an online retailer of physical and electronic books has already devastated chains like Borders and seriously wounded Barnes & Noble.

«This case challenges a horizontal conspiracy amongst the Publisher Defendants who, together with co-conspirator Apple, Inc., entered into contracts and agreements to restrain trade in the consumer retail market for electronic books (eBooks).

This business model has exploded thanks to technology for digitizing content and for printing on demand as well as to the popularity of electronic retailers, which have almost unlimited book real estate, unlike brick and mortar stores.

No offense to Fictionwise or BooksonBoard or whoever, but there was never a particularly compelling proposition for a publisher of any size to sell electronic books through retailers not named Amazon.

A study carried out for ebook retailer Kobo suggests that women represent 75 % of the most active e-readers — defined as readers who spend at least 30 minutes a day using electronic books.