CSS has very little traction
in pBooks for a reason.
B&N certainly can do more (and must do more) to make their stores hubs for book activity, both
in pbooks and ebooks.
@concisekathryn I will also pay full price for favourite writers — I have more fiction
in pbook still — nonfiction in ebook #EtherIssue
Not exact matches
As for me, I haven't bought a
pbook in ages, and I'm so glad to find your books
in the kindle store.
Authors who have earned up to 70 %
in royalties are going to be reluctant to agree to a much lower royalty offered by the
pbook publisher.
This ill - fated connection results
in the inflated pricing of ebooks attributed to the expense of first producing the
pbook by mainstream publishers.
The transitional turmoil
in the publishing industry is prompting authors to ask publishers specifically what the benefits are when they sell the rights to a popular ebook to one of the â $ œbig sixâ $ to be eventually release as a
pbook.
That means the book publishing industry overall will become more profitable
in both net sales (more customers) and profit per unit (ebooks versus
pbooks.)
Pbooks are superior for reference books and textbooks that are not read sequentially, but
in which the reader typically jumps around.
In fact, many authors self - publish for nothing (both in ebook and pbook
In fact, many authors self - publish for nothing (both
in ebook and pbook
in ebook and
pbook).
I've got a stack of
pbooks by my bed, a huge library we call a house and a whack of ebooks loaded
in my ereader.
Liz,
In no way do we put «all our eggs» in the Amazon basket; we just use their unequaled platform to sell eBooks (and have been doing so since the advent of the Kindle, and selling pBooks through Amazon since 1996
In no way do we put «all our eggs»
in the Amazon basket; we just use their unequaled platform to sell eBooks (and have been doing so since the advent of the Kindle, and selling pBooks through Amazon since 1996
in the Amazon basket; we just use their unequaled platform to sell eBooks (and have been doing so since the advent of the Kindle, and selling
pBooks through Amazon since 1996).
If you did not buy the
pBook from manning.com, you can still get the free eBook
in all available formats by setting up a Manning account, and registering your copy.
They hope to be publishing all front list titles simultaneously
in ebook and
pbook editions by mid 2011.
However, as I have stated
in a post on my blog, that role may not be the main motivation for the high royalities rate the publisher deserves
in the «classical»
pbook schema, and may also be either done by the author, or subcontracted if he wants to self - publish.
All
in all, after all the arguments both ways, I fail to understand why publishers who take less risk with ebooks as with
pbooks should be compensated the same regardless of the form...
No matter where you buy the
pBook — whether from the Manning website, another online store, or
in a brick - and - mortar bookstore — you can now get the eBook at no extra charge.
Books printed prior to the inception of our
pBook registration program, foreign translations, and English - language reprints produced by Dreamtech Press for sale
in India do not contain the necessary registration codes and are not eligible for
pBook registration.
In other words, digitization of books allow «the greedies» to make the book something it's never been:
pbooks are universal and can be read anywhere, anytime and anyhow; ebooks are files strongly linked to an ecosystem, an ecosystem led by hypocrites who are doing their utmost to imprison readers technically (DRM + EPUB alterations) while screaming «Hey, we're using an open standard!».
The two biggest
pbook printing companies are CreateSpace (owned by Amazon) and LightingSource (owned by Ingram, the biggest distributor to bookstores
in the US) Lulu is good too, but beware their more expensive packages — those have gone over to the Author Solutions dark side, too
pbook print book; a book - length publication
in print format.