Sentences with phrase «existing ebook retailers»

With this feature smaller and self publishers have a way distribute ebooks directly to their readers without using existing ebook retailers.

Not exact matches

However, the universal approach taken by ebook retailers to «open territory» is to pretend that it doesn't exist.

So even if you use international distributors like PublishDrive and Streetlib, to reach those stores, your ebook might not be listed without a print edition existing, and their retail partners do look for it.

While most felt that piracy was not a huge issue, what was important was the ability for readers to find indie authors» works and be able to read them without a lot of hassle or hoop jumping, as well as how to make it possible for readers to choose to read on a variety of devices — even those from different retailers — without sacrificing their existing ebook libraries.

Most changes to an existing ePub take little time to do and can allow you to get your corrected file up and live on the retailers so that your eBook's availability isn't affected.

Although PGW, through Perseus Books, now has access to digital printing equipment and is starting to move into ebooks, they clearly are part of the existing world of bookselling and retailing.

Also, let's hope that several competitive ebook retailers exist.

E-commerce retailer Flipkart has announced on its website that it will stop offering ebooks for download and it will migrate all libraries of its existing users to Kobo, starting December 17.

Amazon had a powerful weapon that no longer existed for Barnes & Noble: its cash supply and overall marketplace power would allow it to continue taking retail losses or miniscule profits on the big publishers» ebooks for years to come — or for however long it took Amazon, publishers feared, to be «the last man standing» in the book business.

That, or it's seemingly inconsequential, as most new independent authors rely on ebook sales anyhow, where the cover only really exists on digital retailers.

According to the DOJ's competitive impact statement (PDF), Penguin has agreed to «substantially the same terms» that the three other settling publishers — HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette — agreed to in April: The publisher will terminate its existing agreements with ebook retailers and enter into new ones that, for two years, allow retailers to freely discount its ebooks (with a few limitations).

Numerous new ebook retail outlets have materialized even in that short time — we'll be looking at a couple below — and we're hearing more and more reports of indie US and UK authors not just selling overseas in increasing numbers, but selling in the most unexpected places, on platforms the authors never knew existed, in places they never knew ebooks could reach.