Apple could decline to list an eBook in
the iBookstore if it determines the book violates the company's policies on inappropriate content.
Not exact matches
And I mean everywhere:
If you want to see how big this is, visit Amazon Kindle ebooks, Apple
iBookstore (iTunes), Barnes and Noble NOOKbooks, Google eBookstore, Smashwords, Vook and Project Gutenberg.
Even
if the iPad /
iBookstore and Nook / Barnes & Noble platforms — Amazon's main competitors in the ereading space — build a significant market share, Amazon will still have enough clout for its plan to work.
But
if you used your Mac, or you hired someone like AuthorImprints to setup your
iBookstore distribution, you can manage and monitor key details from any... [Read more...]
Please note that Apple provides the
iBookstore in 32 countries, so
if your eBook hasn't yet been distributed to a specific country, then you won't find it there.
A:
If you choose to make your eBook available in the
iBookstore ℠, on Barnes & Noble's NOOK, or other retailers, the retailer earns a commission on the sale of each eBook.
If you are an author and are wondering how you can submit your books to the
iBookstore, Apple has added book submissions to iTunes Connect.
If you're just looking to get several of your own books into the
iBookstore, you'll need to follow the process described in this blog and on the Author tab of the aggregator page.
If I've got an eBook that I give away for free on my website and I'd like to offer an ePub version of it on the
iBookStore, can I do that through your service?
If the
iBookstore is a route you'd like to take, then check out this page and add
iBookstore distribution to your cart.
Once you have that file on Lulu, add
iBookstore distribution to your cart as
if you were buying any other service.
If you haven't already done so, look at publishing on Kobo Writing Life and
iBookstore (through Bookbaby / Smashwords) because they are entering new markets faster than Amazon.
Update 1 June 2010: You can now self publish direct to the iPad
iBookstore but only
if you have a US tax number.
For purposes of this Final Judgment, the term E-book does not include (1) an audio book, even
if delivered and stored digitally; (2) a standalone specialized software application or «app» sold through an «app store» rather than through an e-book store (e.g., through Apple's «App Store» rather than through its «
iBookstore» or «iTunes») and not designed to be executed or read by or through a dedicated E-book reading device; or (3) a media file containing an electronically formatted book for which most of the value to consumers is derived from audio or video content contained in the file that is not included in the print version of the book.
It's a far cry from the far more robust Kindle bookstore (with 600,000 titles), or even Apple's
iBookstore (with «tens of thousands» of titles)-- but
if you can find books that you want to read, that's all that matters.
If you go to Smashwords at http://smashwords.com you'll see their distribution partners on their home page as Apple
iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony Reader Store, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store.
To see
if your ebooks are on the
iBookstore, use the iTunes Link Maker tool.
Instead, the MFN here required each publisher to guarantee that it would lower the retail price of each e-book in Apple's
iBookstore to match the lowest price offered by any other retailer, even
if the Publisher Defendant did not control that other retailer's ultimate consumer price.
If you fancy buying or browsing a new title you can click on the store option and there is a brand new audiobook section, within the
iBookstore.
If anybody is having doubts as to how the single largest collection in the
iBookstore, which can boast of just 46000 to 60000 titles is having a positive affect on Penguin's earnings, one should take note of the mere fact that the iPad sales have gone beyond the 5 million mark and continues to be in high demand.
The other big news item is that
if you own an iPad, you'll now have access to 17,000 Random House titles in the
iBookstore.
If history is any guide, Bezos, who declined to comment for this story, doesn't care whether he loses money on books for the larger cause of stocking the Kindle with exclusive content unavailable in Barnes & Noble's Nook or Apple's
iBookstores.
If you want full access right now to the USA version of the
iBookstore and you live internationally, your best bet is to buy a USA iTunes coupon on EBAY, and open a USA account on your iPad and for payment use your USA iTunes voucher.
If you live in the UK, Canada and other countries you will notice the
iBookstore to be a lackluster experience.
If Amazon pushes authors around, ebooks become cheaper on the
iBookstores and B&N.
The
iBookstore is really hard to get into, but
if you use a service like FastPencil it's a snap.
If you don't sell many copies at the
iBookstore, then it could turn out that, over the lifetime of the book, you'll do better with Smashwords.
The
iBookstore includes a Purchases tab where you can find all the books you've ever bought
if you want to read them again, or download them to another device.
In fact, the button to tap is the same one you need
if you've never purchased a book from Apple: Touch the Store button, and the bookshelf flips around like a secret passageway, revealing the
iBookstore's main interface.
If you do most of your sales through the
iBookstore, BookBaby might be the better deal.
This would be less annoying
if Apple let you browse the
iBookstore from your Mac as well, but currently the only way to search its shelves is from an iOS device.
It's important to note, though, that browsing the
iBookstore is a mixed bag, for several reasons: First, on the iPhone, the store's a lousy iOS citizen; even
if you've been reading in landscape mode, the store is oddly portrait - only.
«Please keep in mind that
if your eBooks are also available through distribution outlets such as the
iBookstore and Barnes & Noble they include encryption applied by the retailer.
If it's a book you actually want to sell, I suggest you enlist the assistance of what Apple calls «
iBookstore Aggregators.»)
My question is this:
If I change all my titles to be devoid of DRM, will the
ibookstore & Barnes and Noble Nook also sell all of them without DRM protection, since Lulu sends all my works to them?
My question is this:
If I change all my titles» contents to be devoid of DRM, will the
ibookstore & Barnes and Noble Nook also sell all of them without DRM protection, since Lulu sends all my works to them?
So, here's the deal:
If you have a Mac and iWorks and you want to self - publish an eBook and sell it via Amazon.com or Apple's
iBookstore, you now have all the technology you need.
If you want to sell an ebook made with Author, you have to sell it through Apple's
iBookstore.
For example,
if you sell your ebook on Amazon and the Apple
iBookstore, you technically need two different ISBNs.
Word of warning:
If you are going to include links in your ebooks and you are selling on both Amazon and the Apple
iBookstore, then make sure you don't have a link to Amazon in your iBooks version.
So
if I understand this comment correctly: «eBooks in non-English languages and / or offered for free will be listed on lulu.com, but will not be distributed to the
iBookstore or other retail channels.»
Please note that
if you choose to work with an aggregator to distribute your content on the
iBookstore, Apple's contractual and financial relationship is with that aggregator.
If Apple intends to dominate ebook sales and dictate prices, why can't someone who gets an ebook from the
iBookstore read it on anything other than an iDevice?
More ebook readers will be coming out for the iPad so even
if iBookstore is not available yet, there should be plenty of ebooks from other sources.
Books coming from Smashwords are already up on the
iBookstores, and having this access is going to be more important when and
if the
iBookstore becomes more dominant in bookselling.
-LSB-...]
if I invested a lot of effort in creating an e-book, I'd probably want to make it available in a non-iBooks version anyhow — which would give me options for monetizing it beyond the
iBookstore.
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Thanks for the comments Liza:D I was wondering
if anyone could point me in the right direction... I've converted my dad's book to an ePUB format and now I'm trying to get it buyable from the
iBookstore and readable via iBooks.
The
iBookstore is particularly notorious for this; and your eBooks can get held up in review for weeks
if you are using an aggregation service like Smashwords or Draft2Digital to get onto iTunes.
Even
if you have no nearby competition from other bricks - and - mortar stores, there's always competition for from the online retailers of both print books and e-books, like Amazon.com, bn.com, the Apple
iBookstore, and even many publishers who sell their books directly to the public.