Sentences with phrase «from ebook publishers»

I also rarely buy from ebook publishers such as Samhain or Loose - Id.

I'm low on the «writing industry food chain», but haven't missed a month without a paycheck (sometimes two or three) from my ebook publishers / sales since 2007.

Don't accept the first or only offer you get from an eBook publisher — and that means from NTP also.

Presumably for a larger royalty, or earlier payout, Bearman passed up a $ 5,000 advance from the eBook publisher (Atavist).

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 pPublishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publisherspublishers.

The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do with publishers» efforts at buffing up ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief from antitrust watchdogs.

The fight will continue, but ebooks from the three publishers who settled are expected to take a nose dive.

Ebooks from independent authors and publishers.

As a small publisher, I have constraints as well — from a pure resource - effort point of view, ebooks are extremely simple from the physical point of view, and with regards to print - titles, we have chosen the more expensive, quality - oriented path, and yet we are still making money out of it.

David lives at the intersection of technology and publishing by helping companies, associations and publishers navigate and profit from the eBook revolution and content marketing.

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.

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.

@JanArrah Here's a good article on ebook pricing from a publisher perspective.

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.

Apple's electronic book effort, iBooks, excludes everything from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive ebook price increase last year.

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.

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.

From their website: «eBook Architects, a service of Firebrand Technologies, works with authors and publishers of all sizes, designing high - quality ebooks for the Kindle, iPad, NOOK, and other devices.

The eBooks we're now listing from other authors & publishers have a limit of 4 successful downloads per purchase.

The latest US book industry sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January to August 2010.

From their website: «Over the years, Impelsys has developed successful ebook strategies for a number of leading publishers worldwide.

I started blogging back in 2011 on Iola's Christian Reads, after I discovered I could get free ebooks from my favourite publishers if I had a book blog and promised to post a book review.

Some of the same authors — with an assist from traditionally published authors, their publishers, and various publishing pundits — have been making the same arguments about cheap eBooks.

Other recent developments in the POD / self - publishing space include Amazon's merger of Booksurge and CreateSpace; Lulu's adding 200,000 eBooks from traditional publishers to their platform; and Andrew Sullivan is self - publishing a book via Blurb.

The latest US book industry sales figures from the Association of American Publishers show ebooks are now tracking at 9 % of domestic trade book revenue for the 8 - month period January... Read more >

«I think we'd estimate up to around 5 percent» of copies sold are digital, «whereas I hear from other crime publishers that a typical ebook sales figure is around 25 to 30 percent.»

Google's catalogue already includes several hundred thousand commercial eBooks from its 35,000 publisher partners.

Like the revolution which happened in the book industry, from book stores to ebooks, from big and medium press publishers to indie publishing, the film industry is undergoing a similar revolution.

From the initial six hundred - plus titles that the publisher originally offered, Macmillan has now made more than 12,000 ebooks available to school libraries for student lending.

Ebooks from traditional publishers have DRM and can't be converted — I know this because I tried converting some of MY old Fictionwise files and was informed it wasn't doable.

When it comes to the big six publishers, most of them don't allow their ebooks to be borrowed from the public library or, if they do, charge exorbitant amounts.

However, while the taxation would apply to ebook publishers and distributors in Japan, the same when sourced from overseas vendors enjoy immunity from the... [Read more...]

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

This phenomenon has been shared for years from companies like Kobo and OverDrive, who've worked to convince publishers that library lending and ebooks are good for their business.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

This affirmation came directly from one of the Big Six publishers that has been criticized for its business practices concerning ebook lending of its titles.

If you are an existing customer who purchased an ebook from a major publisher between April 1st 2010 and May 21st 2012 you will be getting more credits.

EBL offers around 300,000 ebooks from more than 500 publishers.

From what I understand the vast majority of the ebooks that are discounted are from indie authors and not major publishFrom what I understand the vast majority of the ebooks that are discounted are from indie authors and not major publishfrom indie authors and not major publishers.

I have a theory that publishers are afraid that cheap ebooks will steal sales from newly - released hardcovers.

Cross words were exchanged when each entity sent the other its scathing stance on the state of ebook lending, but that didn't prevent the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers from going forward with a planned meeting to discuss the issue.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically... [Read more...]

The American Library Association held its Midwinter conference this week, but the real news to come from that gathering is that the ALA's key leadership has asked for and gotten a meeting with several major publishers to figure out where eBook lending is going from here.

The Storia program comes pre-loaded with five free ebooks for each age level, and the ability to purchase additional high - interest and ability level - guided ebooks from Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's content.

Most companies that started out between 2009 - 2014 have run into one of a number of walls related to scaling — they couldn't capture enough share to make publishers interested, couldn't get big enough to keep investors interested, tried out a business model that didn't work, couldn't raise cash after VCs moved on from ebooks to the next shiny thing, or their parent company didn't see a path to profitability and decided to wind down.

Peter Brantley, of the non-profit startup Hypothes.is Project whose goal is to develop a deeper dialogue between libraries and publishers, spoke from the library and ebook lending perspective,... [Read more...]

Smaller publishers such as Smashwords have also got involved in the distribution of eBooks from their wellspring of self - published content.

At Penguin Random House, the UK's largest trade publisher, ebook totals slipped by 0.4 % in 2015, down from 16.17 m to 16.1 m.

Major publishers are seeing 24 % of their global revenue stemming from eBooks and print still reigns supreme.

I own a couple hundred eBooks; all are from traditional publishers, and were professionally vetted and edited.