Only
a few electronic publishers now accept poetry, where you'd probably do better to purchase the software and create your own ebooks.
Not exact matches
that Hugh»... achieved a feat
few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major
publishers and retained the
electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»
Many, however, now offer «print - on - demand publishing,» which means that the
publisher keeps your manuscript in an
electronic file, and you can order as
few or as many copies as you wish and have them shipped wherever you want (your home or a conference or other place where you plan to be speaking).
If you screwed up and allowed the
publisher to keep the
electronic rights or POD rights, even selling only a
few copies a year, you won't see any money ever again on this book besides dinner money every year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next
few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major
publishers suspected of colluding to push up
electronic book prices, according to two people close to the negotiations.
This huge extra profit was a gift to
publishers back a
few years by writers and really, really stupid agents who allowed a writer's share of
electronic publishing to move from 50 % of cover to 25 % of net.
A conversation between Flint and Baen Books
publisher Jim Baen led to an experiment: offering a
few titles in
electronic format for free.
Since
publishers are still required to edit, print, distribute and market in traditional ways, and since they have
fewer staff due to lower margins, it falls upon the author to accomplish many new tasks related to
electronic marketing and sales.
Very, very
few indie
publishers bother with paper editions, even though sales of
electronic books are around the 25 % of all trade sales number, with the remaining amounts being paper.
Introduced a
few months ago with a new price, an improved form - factor and scaled down connectivity options, the Kindle 3 is a huge success not just for Amazon.com but also for booksellers and
publishers who have welcomed the eBook route and consumers who are adopting
electronic readers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next
few weeks with Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and some of the major
publishers suspected of colluding to push up
electronic book prices, according to two people close to the negotiations.
Both systems offer a wealth of third - party titles from well - known
publishers such as Ubisoft, Activision,
Electronic Arts and Bethesda to name a
few.
Fast forward a
few years later and rival
publisher Electronic Arts figured the dinosaur - loving, PC game - playing demographic was a demographic it could actually go after, inserting a dinosaur prominently in the most mind - blowing clip of E3 2011 then tweeting the backstory just to be clear everyone was on the same page.
There are a
few gaps but not many, i.e., older issues of law journals where there was no assignment of
electronic rights to the print
publisher and publications that restrict
electronic access to select groups such as the Canadian Bar Review.