Independent bookstores do a terrific job of handselling, but their ability to link
into ebook selling is lagging behind.
The announcement of a major push
into ebook selling by Canadian book chain Indigo might carry a lesson for other international markets such as New Zealand.
Although many have ventured
into ebook selling through online stores, it is surprising to note that the distribution of ebooks -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
You can look
into packaging these information
into eBooks, webinars, audios, and podcasts, then
sell it to people online.
You may also wish to repurpose some of your short reports
into eBooks (
sold on their on website) or books for the Kindle platform.
Tip: Unless you want to give exclusive rights to
sell your
ebook to Amazon, do not opt
into KDP Select.
She took a moment out of her busy schedule to discuss the evolutionary growth of
ebooks in the library, how the discovery of content is a top priority, what it took to talk Simon & Schuster and Penguin
into joining the library lending model, and how libraries are
selling ebooks.
The should be focusing on making the
ebooks that they
sell be readable on the all devices, not just locked
into their reader.
But, I thought, if I could
sell some early copies of EE5, maybe I could come up with a couple hundred dollars to pay for turning the short story
into an
ebook.
The ASIN is central to any Amazon catalogue record and with Amazon's expansion
into selling eBooks and second hand books, it connects various editions of books.
This is the most widely
sold format by rival
eBook stores and hopes are high to turn it
into the MP3 of the
eBook world — something Amazon's stance doesn't help.
(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 au
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 au
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 authors.
Tools like the Lulu EPUB Converter turn an author's document
into an
eBook that can be
sold and read on most e-reader devices.
The profit from both can be used to build an improved e-reader, which can be
sold more cheaply, which then means more people will buy it and consequently buy more
ebooks, the profits of which can then go back
into building even better, even cheaper Kindles.
Analysts in 2007 (if memory does not betray me) said that to be profitable Amazon had to
sell an
ebook at not less than $ 1.63 and Jeff Bezos announced only in 2012 that the volumes sales of
ebooks finally turned the business
into a profitable one.
Should readers of
ebooks be charged a fee that would go
into a fund to subsidize bookstores that
sell print books?
of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and
eBook) being
sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it
into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.
After making the decision to become a best
selling Amazon author and to write and publish more books, I received a Divine Download to take the content from the free 30 - day writing habits challenge I created and turn it
into an
eBook.
«But integrating (your
ebook selling)
into library (ies) is not for the fainthearted.»
When / if The Spanners Series
ebooks start
selling well and your fan base has grown sufficiently, you may raise Volume II's price to $ 5.99 during Volume III's Pre-order period, now pushed
into spring, 2015, and set the Pre-order price @ $ 2.99 for Volume III, This Is / Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change.
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With
eBooks accounting for 30 - 35 % of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and
eBook) being
sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it
into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.
We then dive deeper
into the issue of major
ebook stores on the iOS platform and why they stopped
selling books within the apps.
The company allows bookstores to be linked
into the device, which builds more synergy between the retail channels that
sell ebooks and the public.
At this year's BookExpo America, Barnes and Noble's Theresa Horner, VP of Digital Content, detailed how the leading brick - and - mortar book
selling chain has incorporated
ebooks into its in - store model.
Looking a bit further
into it, it seems that the Tolino devices
sold by Standaard Boekhandel also have the Standaard Boekhandel's own
eBook - shop integrated, so you can buy
eBooks directly from Standaard Boekhandel.
Not content to exclusively buy
into this model Harper Collins is now bucking the trend by
selling eBooks directly to customers and launching a dedicated e-Reader app for Android and... [Read more...]
Amazon is a global e-commerce giant that capitalized on
selling physical books online and then diversified
into eBooks.
Not content to exclusively buy
into this model Harper Collins is now bucking the trend by
selling eBooks directly to customers and launching a dedicated e-Reader app for Android and iOS.
What libraries don't know right now is that the entire consortium would have to opt
into selling Simon & Schuster
eBooks.
Sell Your Book and
Ebook to Libraries — This thorough training program contains everything you need to know — whether you're a traditionally published or self - published author — to get your book
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The goal of getting
into the library of course, is not to
sell a handful of
ebooks, but to expand your potential audience.
Since this is a large subject we've broken it down
into a series called Publishing and
Selling eBooks with Amazon.
The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy
into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower
ebook prices (which equals more units
sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.
She's the Amazon superstar who got rejected by all the big publishers, threw her
ebooks into Kindle with no marketing whatsoever,
sold millions and ended up with a multi-million contract with Simon & Schuster.
The rise in
ebooks seems to favor books that are easily categorized
into one of Amazon's shopping buckets and the biggest recommendation for
selling books is to write them more quickly.
In the meantime, Google will take the energy it used to spend on letting small bookstores
sell ebooks and transfer that to trying to build Google Play
into the
ebook powerhouse it had hoped to become when it first launched the affiliates reseller program.
In the U.S. alone,
ebooks sales account for about 25 % of titles being
sold, and that translates
into nearly 20 % of revenue for the industry.
Many industry analysts at Book Expo America and IDPF told me that not only will Barnes and Noble adopt EPUB 3
into its iOS app this summer, but it will also start
selling ebooks!
In many cases the store you visit might not
sell ebooks and have turned a prospective customer
into an online bargain hunter.
Of these
ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down
into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all
sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»
If you're
selling an
ebook with a list price like that, chances are that it's high profile or highly topical item; you can't really read a trend
into that.
This tool allows anyone (authors, bloggers, podcasters, or anyone else) to copy the URL for a book's product page, from any
eBook retailer (such as Amazon), paste it
into the tool at Books2Read.com, and generate a single link that can send readers to everywhere a book is
sold online.
For instance, a shoe -
selling website put out a free
ebook that actually had a number of useful things to say about finding and taking care of shoes, and that went
into a fair bit of detail on topics that weren't otherwise well - covered in my index.
Her emotional, entertaining women's fiction and critically praised novels have
sold millions of copies in hard cover, paperback and
ebook editions, been translated
into 19 languages,
sold in 30 countries, and were prominent selections of leading book clubs including the Literary Guild and the Book Of The Month Club.
Ready to convert your work
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When indie publishing evangelist and best
selling author J.A. Konrath got the rights back to the first six books of his Hyperion - published Jack Daniels series, he asked if we could give each of the volumes a unified, premium
ebook and print interior design that could carry forward
into new books featuring featuring the seasoned, brash Chicago detective at the heart of his series.
In fact, nearly every one of them has crashed
into Amazon's list of the top 100 best -
selling ebooks.
One point that I think hasn't been made is that Amazon can put ANY book they
sell in
eBook format
into Kindle Unlimited.
eBooks uploaded through KDP are not automatically entered
into the Select program, meaning the authors are not limited as to where the
ebook can be
sold.