Sentences with phrase «into paid ebooks»

We've written before about the value in repurposing otherwise free content into paid ebooks.

Not exact matches

Amazon has just split its ebook top 100 list into a Free and a Paid list, giving much more useful insight into what people are buying and reading digitally.

A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.

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.

(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'll grant you that HB authors will see their advances split into groupings that recognize there will be MORE money down the line when trade or mm comes out, but that doesn't equate — to me — with the scenario you've come up for ebook royalty payments being considered an «advance» when paid after publication.

That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low - cost printed book than use a free digital version.

By default it is dealing with the Bookeen eBookstore, but you can get them to tie it into whatever free source of paid or free ebooks that you want to.

Together, the six authors behind Faery Worlds put their complete novels into one ebook file, crediting each author and title individually, and the end result is currently in the top five hundred for all paid titles on Amazon, as well as ranked numbers one and two in several different book categories.

And so the old business model of pay first read later (was) smart and sneaky enough to creep into the world of eBooks.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Buying ebooks from other ebook stores on an iOS device is a little more of a hassle because you have to use the web browser instead of the app (otherwise they have to pay Apple 30 % of each sale) but that's a minor inconvenience to avoid having your ebooks locked into one brand forever.

If you were willing to sign up for KDP Select and go exclusive with Amazon for a quarter, your book (or serialized story) would go into Kindle Unlimited, where you were paid for every borrow that was made, so long as the reader consumed 10 % of the ebook.

In order to help customers still be able to afford the convenience of ebooks, Amazon is incorporating into its publishing contracts that the publishers will discount the price of the books by the margin of difference in what consumers have to pay and what Amazon has to report.

For indie authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to pay authors as ebooks are borrowed.

The Apple iBookstore Comes to Canada — Residents of Canada can finally pay too much for ebooks that are locked into Apple's iBookstore.

Lizard has also compiled a free ebook listing 45 blogs that pay $ 50 or more per post, broken down into sections like Writing Blogs, Food Blogs, etc..

Interested in getting your ebooks into libraries and get paid?

Enthrill puts racks of attractive ebook gift cards into bookstores and other retail sites, allowing shoppers in brick - and - mortar stores to pay terrestrial cash registers for digital books they download using codes on those cards.

When authors or publishing companies are trying to hook you onto a new series or author, they will many times give you a free ebook that they hope will entice you into continuing the series by purchasing a paid book.

After all, you've paid an ebook formatting service to turn your manuscript into an ebook and you need it to be as close to perfect as it can be.

Although it remains to be seen whether the eBook subscription model can predict the future of reading, next year's competition will be a phenomenon to watch due to enormous addition of new eBooks to be automatically fed into paid subscribers» devices.

Meanwhile, for the paying customer, DRM makes it difficult to move ebooks between devices and traps readers into a single retail channel.

For PPC, I wrote an entire PPC for Attorneys Ebook about it because there is so much that goes into a well - running pay - per - click campaign for lawyers.