In a meandering rumination titled «Some random ideas for ebooks» he shares his personal wish list
for ebook publishers based on his experience with the Kindle and iPad.
Online ebook piracy remains a major concern
for ebook publishers just as it is for the music industry.
ISBN Essentials: An FAQ
for eBook Publishers ISBN Video Training Course: ISBN (Numbers) Explained: Getting and Using ISBNs to Sell More Books
I found this link, ISBN Essentials: An FAQ
for eBook Publishers, that summarizes some of the main things to know.
In addition,
for those ebook publishers striving to keep their «book buzz» strong after FREEBIE days, here's an opportunity to do so at reasonable prices.
While searching
for an ebook publisher, its website, staff, and all around presentation should be professional.
His written work has appeared on sites such as Synonym.com and GlobalPost, and he has served as an editor
for ebook publisher Crescent Moon Press, as well as academic literary journals.
Not exact matches
The New York Times,
for example, says
ebook sales fell by 10 % in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American
Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 p
Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200
publisherspublishers.
Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books
for, but the
publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant
for selling
ebooks at low prices.
Why are
publishers putting most of their effort into designing
ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?
Title: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World: Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson (1933 — 2013), Shel Horowitz Contributing writers: Cynthia Kersey (Unstoppable), Frances Moore Lappé (Diet
for a Small Planet), Ken McArthur (The Impact Factor), Yanik Silver (Evolved Enterprise)
Publisher: Morgan James Pub date: April 19, 2016 • Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 978 -1-63047-658-8 (paperback); 978 -1-63047-659-5 (
eBook)
(Last fall, Will Sullivan offered a gaggle of reasons
ebooks make sense
for publishers.)
And a bit of good news: My
publisher just put everything on sale so you can grab my first book «Jesus Feminist «
for just $ 3.99
ebook edition or $ 9.41 in the paperback.
I don't think the
publisher has plans
for an
ebook as of yet, but we will definitely announce it if it's ever in the works.
The
ebooks for kids are on the pricier side in my opinion, especially considering how fast kids go through them, but we found that these are set by the
publishers itself.
But the main thing is that the price
for an
ebook wouldn't be significantly less, since almost all of the price is due to the extortionate copyright fees the
publisher had to pay to the journals
for permission to reprint.
Read Book marketing and
ebook promotion tips
for book authors, book
publishers, self - publishing authors, and e-book
publishers who want to sell more books.
Simon Heong, the
publisher of the first compilation
ebook of «dating gurus» 28 Surefire Ways
For Instant Dating Success, evaluates 12 Simple Rules as «hands down, one of the best resources out there».
Publisher / line Year (or projected year) of release Which book it is of yours / for that publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per book (if any) Standard royalty percentage (for regular print sales AND for ebook sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year of release (
Publisher / line Year (or projected year) of release Which book it is of yours /
for that
publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per book (if any) Standard royalty percentage (for regular print sales AND for ebook sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year of release (
publisher (1st, 5th, etc.) Advance per book (if any) Standard royalty percentage (
for regular print sales AND
for ebook sales) Total earnout to date (INCLUDING advance) Title acronym with month / year of release (if known)
For many
eBook publishers and authors, knowing who is reading your work is as important as making it available in the first place.
Libraries use different systems
for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a
publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.
-- Smashwords.com — a site
for self -
publishers that makes it easy to create and sell you own
ebooks in the epub format.
It also works
for publishers and authors who want to sell
ebooks with Aerio.
In wholesale model today,
publishers set a digital list price, but the retailer sets the final price
for ebooks.
And second to mean «the single ISBN being used
for all the
publishers»
eBook formats».
Publishers follow the same path with
ebooks, plus an extra step: they usually generate the
ebook file directly from the Adobe InDesign file or the PDF used
for the print version.
Publishers seem to fail to understand the low friction digital marketplace
for ebooks.
Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an
eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on
eBook pricing, and a big boost
for WorldReader from major
publishers.
This has resulted in all
publishers except the biggest being forced to put two prices on their
ebooks: a» digital consumer retail» price (intended to be a selling price,
for Apple, and lower) as well as a «list» price (intended
for the retailer to discount,
for Amazon, and higher).
The world's largest online retailer and the huge
publisher have
for months been in a nasty and at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get
for eBook sales.
NetGalley provides a place where authors /
publishers can upload their
ebooks (ARCs or older titles) and reviewers can request a copy
for review.
First, to mean «the ISBN
for a particular
eBook format», MobiPocket
for example, when the
publisher is allocating ISBNs to each individual format (analogous to hardback and paperback), as recommended within the standard.
Other major
publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of
ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing
for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.
Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing
ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits
for publishers and authors.
In the same way, there is probably no supply - chain imperative
for publishers or Amazon to allocate an ISBN to a Kindle reader
eBook, while this device, and content
for it, is exclusive and proprietary to Amazon.
I've posted about this in the past, but as a brief refresher, what agency pricing means is that
publishers get to set the prices
for their
ebooks.
Apple instead let
publishers set their own prices
for ebooks on the iPad — as long as those prices were the lowest offered on any platform — and then took a 30 % cut of revenue.
Last week,
for the first time ever, a major author — or, in many minds (as though it's a matter of opinion), THE world - premiere author of the # 1 best - selling series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling — has decided (with her
publisher) to release the
ebooks directly.
Publishing an
ebook that started as a print book is cost effective
for both indie
publishers and traditional
publishers.
They offer a 52 % revenue share
for publishers, and are usually trying to sell
ebooks cheaper than any other channel.
Publishers may offer ebooks at a discount with an annual subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled
Publishers may offer
ebooks at a discount with an annual subscription to the whole catalog or
publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled
publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30
for scaled discounts.
What, other than conversion, is the
publisher doing
for the author regarding the
ebook that justifies them taking such a huge chunk of the royalties?
Askmen, the online magazine
for men, uses the PressBooks
Publisher Platform as the production and management tool
for their
ebook publishing program.
In other words, book
publishers and distributors are jockeying
for position in the school library
ebook market and there are no clear winners.
If you look at the offerings
for free on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, you see «sneak peeks» offered by traditional
publishers for ebooks that they have
for sale in those venues.
eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak —
For the purposes of this article, the definition of an
eBook lending platform is one that contains
eBooks from multiple
publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.
«The online leviathan Amazon says it is attempting to «lower
ebook prices»; publishing conglomerate Hachette argues that it is seeking «terms that value appropriately
for the years ahead the author's unique role in creating books, and the
publisher's role in editing, marketing, and distributing them.»
For 40 + years, Bookmasters has offered services to
publishers and authors such as book printing services, print book storage / warehousing and book distribution,
eBook conversion and distribution, editorial and design, and marketing.
Hopefully, they'll also work on
publishers to offer a short term rental option, giving them a further point of difference and, at the same time, turning what
for many early users is a negative — that you can't download the
ebooks you «own» — into a positive: that you don't need to own or download them because you've just rented them.
My post was about the high prices libraries pay
for ebooks from the «Big 6»
publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books from most of those
publishers.