Siracusa's review went live a few hours ago, but the ebook is nowhere to be found on what would seem to be the two most
important ebook stores for it: Apple's iBookstore and Amazon's Kindle.
It gives a good overview of the most
important ebook stores and distributors and walks you through setting up an account on some of the distributors.
Not exact matches
We generate impeccable
ebook files and embed
important metadata like series information and search keywords in the way that will most effectively help readers find your book when searching the digital
stores.
Yes, traditional publishers are all competing for the
important in -
store shelf space, but there are enough self published authors who are selling gangbusters in
ebooks, who would do well on shelves.
Another question I find
important to ask: Would it be better to publish with Amazon DP and opt - out Kindle in my Smashwords dashboard, or I would get the same number of sales if I distribute my
ebook in Kindle
Store via Smashwords?
Categories are one of your book's most
important metadata elements and critical to the discoverability of your
eBook in online
stores.
Unlike other
important metadata elements like title, subtitle, description and keywords, major online
stores vary in how they handle
eBook categories.
It is also
important to note that many of the
ebook stores online do not have the same security standards as Apple and Amazon, so its possible your book could be stolen and uploaded to free sharing sites online without your permission.
This is
important to transfer
ebooks you have purchased from other
stores to your device.
The size of the
eBook Store is an
important consideration for potential buyers of ereaders, and therefore also for companies producing these readers.
Critically, this options menu is where you can opt to download all
ebooks in one click — an
important point since it is possible to purchase a book either through the device, or from another Google eBookstore portal, and not have it
stored locally.
This is about the mechanics of publishing
ebooks, how to get your manuscript into the most
important ebook formats, and how to get your
ebook into the major
ebook stores.
Important Note: Much of the metadata entered in the Metadata Section such as author, title, and description has to be re-entered when uploaded to the major
eBook stores.
Several prominent iOS - based e-reading apps received updates on Monday that removed one small, but
important feature: To comply with Apple's latest policies on selling app content outside of the standard in - app purchasing API, the Kindle, Kobo, Google, and Nook apps all dropped in - app links to their Web - based
ebook stores.
This is especially
important if your book will be on many different
ebook stores / devices.
The most
important thing to do before buying a new dedicated reading device is to research
ebook availability and pricing among
ebook stores, along with all the other digital media that you intend to use on your ereader —
ebooks, newspapers, magazines, blogs, webpages, audiobooks, etc..
These files would be what Reader Mobile SDK refers to as activation.xml and device.xml It is
important that these files be
stored in an application specific location because each application may implement deactivation of a device differently (and you do not want your users to have their activations wiped out because they deactivated a different Reader Mobile SDK based
ebook reading application).
Storage In a tablet, storage is most
important as users are expected to play a lot of games apart from
storing a lot of movies,
ebooks and documents.
As the distinction between
ebooks and apps can often be blurry, it is
important for publishers to promote quality educational content — 40 % of parents are willing to purchase educational apps, and over 80 % of the top - selling paid educational apps in the iTunes
store are aimed at children.