Sentences with phrase «into small ebooks»

A «printable» PDF — could be a bookmark, a compilation of blog posts repurposed into a small eBook, printable quotes or scriptures (with your URL on there of course) 3.)

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(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.

The aspect of putting direct control over the price of eBooks into the hands of the publishers, both large and small is ground breaking.

I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.

I just read the article about the German eBook situation — and I can really see where protecting the culture of bookshops, especially independent and small bookshops would come into play.

And cutting pictures into smaller fractions for an ebook series saves time, has the potential of looking quite nice but it's better to know just how many books will be published beforehand.

It would be good if the books could be sorted into smaller subcategories like the Almost Cool Girl 1, which is currently at the top of three subcategories of Children's ebooks.

How to Size Your Images for Ebook Production Before you upload your images into Pressbooks, you'll want to make them as small as possible while still retaining quality.

Fishcake Publications has been set up as a small, independent publisher primarily focused on helping authors, whether already established or unpublished, get their work into the digital realm on as many eBook platforms and formats as possible, therefore maximising their potential exposure and making their work accessible for the general public worldwide.

If you create an original eBook as opposed to repurposing content, you can slice and dice your eBook into smaller pieces of content to distribute across other mediums.

It goes beyond the rhetoric and paranoid proclamations rampant in social media, blogs, and news outlets to provide provable, unbiased insight into the users, devices, formats, and real world economics of ebooks, fixed - layout ebooks, digital textbooks, digital magazines, and more for all levels of publishing — enterprise, small - to medium - sized publishing, indy publishing, and self publishing.

Maybe big publishers simply can't afford to be in the ebooks business, and smaller, nimbler companies need to step into that particular fray.

As ebooks have a smaller profit margin, that translated into smaller sales but more volume with a 134 % increase in ebook sales over 2010.

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.

A separate option, audiobook production company Common Mode, is now broadening its model from its early days of producing ebooks for the traditional publishing industry into serving the needs of indie authors and small presses.

A shout out to all the small presses out there that aren't jacking up their ebook prices to force readers back into an outdated pricing structure.

Then I take my Smashwords file, uncheck Amazon and B&N from the options, and let them take care of getting into the ibookstore (which is a pain to do otherwise) and a handful of other ebook sites (which generate small but steady earnings.)

Blogging an ebook entails mapping out the content for your full ebook and dividing it up into small bits of content you publish regularly on your blog.

I forsee much screaming when ebooks finally come into their own in that part of the world (particularly with small publishers and independents removing those antiquated region barriers...)

eBook readers are very picky about these small details, so make sure you do it right the first time around and turn it into a habit.

As a member of the digital commission of the French national publisher association, I participate to actions for helping small and medium publishers to enter into the ebook market and for negotiating several public regulation projects concerning eBooks.

Amazon was seemingly thrilled with the fact that it could put a Paperwhite - sized 6 - inch panel into a smaller form factor, so it created a tiny ebook reader that didn't have space for a significant battery.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author and small publisher Alan Baxter discusses the many factors and considerations that go into ebook pricing.

All of the major publishers integrate DRM into their eBooks, but smaller publishers who can not afford to invest tens of thousands of dollars in licensing fees have been unable to offer the same security to authors.

Now major authors are buying back their ebook rights; mid-listers are finding new life for their abandoned backlist titles; newbies like Colleen Hoover are breaking into bestsellerdom; and everyone is reading the small print in their old contracts.

Ebooks By Design have converted various titles into multiple - format digital editions for us (Starwalker Press), ranging from big and hideously complex books, with diagrams, illustrations, indexes and tables, to smaller and more simple ones with mostly text.

A smaller operator is going to have think seriously about how much time and money it can put into ascertaining and managing the maze of territorial rights across thousands of ebook titles.

Never fear: Nook for Android by Barnes & Noble turns your phone into a (smaller) e-reader for free — though you'll have to buy your own ebooks.

Likewise, when you buy a book, the actual cost of the phyical object is probably the smallest percentage of the costs that go into producing it, so reducing the cost of a digital book by the same amount results in an ebook that basically costs the same.

At 0.9 pounds and 0.4 - inches thin, not only does the PlayBook feel like a small paperback — especially when holding it with one hand — but it also comes pre-loaded with the Kobo eBook reader application to transform it into an actual book, flipping pages in either landscape or portrait mode.

They took what was basically a non-existent eBook market that was just Baen Books, All Romance, FictionWise and a couple of smaller retailers like that, and turned it into a consumer product.

On March 2, B&T signed a distribution agreement with Smashwords that will bring an additional 100,000 independently published ebooks, representing 37,000 indie authors and small presses, into the Axis 360 offerings.

We are delighted to hear back not only from authors but smaller publishers, that KWL makes it easy for them to get their eBooks into Kobo's catalog as well as track their global sales live, so they can focus on what authors and publishers really want to do — create great books.

Follow the above groundbreaking talk with Q&A, and then break out into small groups and practice compiling ebooks.

Brand recognition is (IMHO) going to become ever more important as more and more self - pubbed books come out and more and more small presses pop up, and more and more presses both large and small move into ebook publishing.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of that, it's important to keep in mind that ebooks are still only a relatively small percentage of overall books sold — somewhere between 15 - 25 %, depending on who you talk to and which numbers you go by, and Amazon sales as a percentage of total books sold is 27 - 30 %.

Granted, the number is too small for the overall data to be skewed, but should the number of Amazon Kindle First ebooks increase, that would have to be taken into account.

The AuthorEarnings [AE] methodology gives us highly detailed visibility into the relative ebook market shares (in both units and dollars) for each sector of publishing (Big 5, Small / Medium Publisher, Indie Published, and Amazon Pub Imprints).

eBook Architects specializes in helping authors and small publishers convert their content into the most popular eBook formats, and offers more in - depth process development and consulting options for those looking to bring their conversion processes in - house.

In our latest eBook, we delve into the subject of how small recruitment agencies can pitch against competitors five times their size and win it, hands down.

Turn these webpages into a couple of small, downloadable PDF eBooks.