These are just a very
few of the ebook retailers out there but by uploading to just a few you can cover most of the ebook market.
Not exact matches
He said that
fewer than 20
of the chain's
retail stores are unprofitable, and «we're going to be around a long time» because consumers read both print and
ebooks (this is a point that the company has been pressing for awhile, based on its own research).
Once we ship your
eBook to a
retailer, it can take anywhere from a
few hours to a couple
of days before it appears on their digital shelves.
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Smashwords also had to increase its staff by 50 % in the last
few weeks to keep up with its strict adherence to what it feels prevents the flood
of ebook piracy, spam, and PLR titles from reaching the online
retailer sites; these flawed - content titles have sparked a lot
of contention among
ebook proponents.
In an even bolder move, Rowling published the
ebooks through her own site only a
few weeks ago and gave several other online
retail booksellers the take - it - or - leave - it deal
of a lifetime: other
retailers» customers can go to their favorite online book sites to purchase the books, which diverts them to Pottermore for the sale, then the original
retailers will still send the
ebooks to the consumers» e-reader devices without requiring the downloading to a computer and transferring via cable that many customers have to rely on when purchasing books from sites other than the one that markets their e-readers.
Across Europe, even though local languages may pose the same problems
of having very
few ebooks available, the widespread use
of English as their second language is giving
ebook retailers a lucrative sideline in English - language
ebooks.
Smashwords, who sells author content as well as distributes that content to major
retailers of authors» choice, gives authors the option to sell their
ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a
few other
retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.
One such global branch, Germany, is now Amazon's second largest
retail market, which is interesting considering that only a
few years ago Germany was considered a slow adopter
of ebooks due to strange legal ramifications that taxes
ebooks at a much higher percentage than print.
What actually may make this venture far more profitable than enhanced
ebooks from a
few years ago is the building on the HTML5 platform for ease
of consumption across multiple platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital publishing industry
of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for authors and publishers to market, sell, and retrieve royalties on their titles, regardless
of retail outlet.
Smashwords.com helps you easily get your
ebook properly formatted and submitted to a ton of the major ebook retailers including: Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store to name a
ebook properly formatted and submitted to a ton
of the major
ebook retailers including: Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store to name a
ebook retailers including: Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and the Diesel
eBook Store to name a
eBook Store to name a
few.
I write and publish self help books and how to guides all the time, and already have a quite large range
of how to books published in both pdf and Kindle downloads I have been creating
ebooks for over a decade that were sold direct from my websites, and a
few years ago I extended to writing books for sale on Amazon / Lulu / iTunes / and
retailers like Barnes & Noble.
So, readers who purchase
eBooks from Barnes & Noble, Kobo or Apple (to name just a
few other
eBook retailers), don't have immediate access to the e-versions
of my books.
The catalogues
of retailers have grown tremendously over the past
few years especially in the
eBook industry.
There are a
few exceptions: The settlement allows publishers the option to negotiate
retailer contracts that include «a commitment from an e-book
retailer that a
retailer's aggregate expenditure on discounts and promotions
of the Settling Defendant's
ebooks will not exceed the
retailer's aggregate commission» — though that doesn't prevent deep discounts on specific titles.
It is currently officially supported on only a
few reading systems, but it can be ingested by most
of the
eBook retailers.
Within a
few weeks
of publishing, your
eBook will be available for sale in 23 major regional
eBook retail outlets across a wide variety
of territory and genre - specific stores, including Waterstones (UK), eChristian (Intl.), eBooks.com (Intl.), and OverDrive which serves more than 33,000 libraries worldwide, including 12,000 schools & colleges.
Apple also actively supports Smashwords, which distributes
ebooks to multiple
retail outlets (B&N, Sony, Kobo, as well as Apple), while Amazon is hostile toward Smashwords authors, only grudgingly accepting a
few of the bestselling
ebooks from it.