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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.

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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)

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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.

I agree that if the publisher has already published the print book, the cost of creating an ebook is greatly reduced.

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.

Also, if you had, in the past, a book publishing contract with a publisher that has expired, we can help you to re-publish your book as a self published author either as an eBook or in print.

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.

This will allow Adobe to clip the ticket on a big chunk of the ebooks sold if it gets the kind of support it's hoping for among ereader hardware manufacturers (Sony has already announced Digital Editions support for a future Sony Reader), e-bookstores, publishers etc..

For example, if a publisher sets the list price for My eBook to $ 5.99, and Barnes & Noble puts My eBook on sale for $ 2.99, Amazon may adjust its price to $ 2.99.

Where does an indie publisher turn if they want their eBook available in «all» eBook retailing stores?

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.

I think if ebooks published by the traditional publishers were priced more realisticly, sales would improve but as long as ebooks are priced above what the print version goes for, sales will remain upside down.

Why can't the staff work for free so that we can pay slightly less for our ebooks?!! And if publishers must have staff, do they really need to provide them with a workplace?

If you want free ebooks, check out the publisher's own websites or Amazon.

After our keynote «Lessons learned with Social DRM», several publishers not only liked the idea, they also asked us if we could do the same with eBooks instead of audio books.

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.

If you are searching for an ebook, since self - publishers price are usually lower than 5,99, I recommend you use price in the filter section.

For example: I've just published a new ebook (non-fiction) and at first I thought it would be just targeted for bike owners and people looking for extra income (How To Make Money With Your Bike) and after I wrote it, I contacted a nationwide sign franchise with 575 stores, and proposed they become the publisher if we also put in an order form, within the ebook, that links their website with the reader.

Why don't publishers pull put of the ebook market if it is that bad.

That is, your contract may say that your rights will revert to you after your book goes out of print, but if you have an ebook, the publisher takes that to mean that as long as an ebook is for sale anywhere, the book is still in print.

So assuming those are pro rates for getting your book edited, covered, formatted, and distributed as ebook and print on demand, the questions you should ask yourself is IF a publisher is asking for $ 800 up front from you are: — is the percentage they take of your work going to equal more than that other $ 800?

Assuming an agent / publisher's vetting, continue the print career (if you have one), while attempting to negotiate for your erights, or at least a higher ebook royalty... WHILE at the same time using ebooks to get out previous work, or recent work that went nowhere with your agent but was considered salable (as with my thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, now on Kindle and soon all the formats), and also perhaps some new work targeted for ebook format only.

However, as publishers make a grab for perpetual e-rights, etc., and as they screw up publishing of ebooks, I then wonder if I want to hold off on traditional publishing until I see how things settle out in terms of authors keeping or getting back rights.

The ebook royalties shown in the chart below are the percentage paid to the publisher — so if you are self - publishing that means you.

No, the book can not be clawed back, much in the same way that once a library purchases a print book, the publisher can't take it back, of if you sell an ebook at an ebook retailer, you can't take the book from customers who purchased it even if you later remove the book from the retailer.

Even if that number is inflated, us eBook publishers should be able to sell a few more books than our usual monthly average, right?

The article, basically said that Amazon decided that if publishers were going to make all this money on ebooks and not give authors a cut, then Amazon would prefer to get a larger piece of the pie.

There's an insane amount of competition for consumers» attention, and only the luckiest, most heavily promoted, and best ebooks will sell in large quantities (by large quantities I mean in the hundreds or thousands; again a reason why publishers, in my view, should not be spending a lot of money creating and distributing ebooks if they expect a return on investment on most of their books).

What does an ebooks marketplace look like if, in addition to libraries, content providers are equally committed to a sustainable ecosystem that enables viability for all players — publishers, vendors, authors, libraries and, of course, readers?

If the print publisher has the copyright over the print publication, partly because you let it do so as part of the deal that they «put it together» for you, and has also registered the print ISBN in their name, this does not stop you making an eBook (so long as it does not use the creative design work of the print book) and registering the second and future ISBNs in your own name as author — as you should have done anyway.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

I asked Sendak's publisher, HarperCollins, if Sendak had ordered his books never be published in ebook form — even after his death.

If so, do they want their publisher charging $ 14.99 for their ebooks?

If most ebook reading is done on a smartphone or a tablet, people can download the book from the publishers site and read it on that device.

Short answer: If the states» settlement with the publishers is finalized, customers who bought an ebook from any one of the five settling publishers between April 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012 will be eligible for a refund of up to $ 3.06 per book.

And if you want to make that extra effort too, think about buying your ebooks from other sites — especially directly from publishers, if you have that opportunity, because that'll have the added bonus of making sure more money ultimately gets into the hands of your favorite authors.

If publishers want to ensure simultaneous release of print, ebook, enhanced ebook or app, then they need lean, efficient processes.

And I do think that if publishers want to make hardbacks more enticing, they should bundle it with the ebook version like they do with Blu - Rays / DVDs.

If this were a love fest, then publishers would not have all reduced royalty rates on ebooks in lock step fashion when ebooks went big.

Publishers are increasingly annoyed because while there are some cost savings involved in eBook production versus print production, they still have the same overhead, including acquisitions, editorial, marketing, sales and production (if not printing).

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

The mission of ebook developers and publishers is a pretty darn cool and noble one, if you ask me: crafting pure information, pure knowledge, so that it can be readable by everyone....

Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.

I also don't know what other terms are in other publisher's contracts but as I've said now many times, rights would revert if we were out of stock on the book or not meeting the agreed upon threshold of ebook sales.

Speaking of selfish vendors, Amazon has continually tried to push a proprietary eBook standard onto the publishing industry, attempting a range of strong - arm methods to enforce the standard if publishers wanted to get prized Amazon eBook distribution.

I suppose if eBooks have done anything, they have contributed to increasing the number of self - publishers out there.