They had promised to
let authors order at the same low price that Createspace does.
Not exact matches
And you need your baby to sleep in
order to get through the day too: «Having a break
lets parents regroup and have the energy they need for when their baby is awake,» says Parents advisor Jodi Mindell, Ph.D.,
author of Sleep Deprived No More.
Of course, this could be a sign of something less dire, namely that Amazon will work with larger files and
let authors sell overly long titles at 50 % royalty in
order to make up for what the company is footing in terms of file transfer fees and hosting.
Pubslush allows
authors to take pre-orders for their books in
order to generate the revenue they need for professional publishing services, while Pentian
lets donors share in the royalties of the book for the first three years, giving
authors the funds they need to generate titles.
The first tool, InstaFreebie, is now in public beta and
lets authors or publishers generate digital copies of their titles under complete control in
order to send them out to reviewers, readers, street teams, and more.
A lot of focus in the publishing industry lately has centered around the need for more sales data for
authors in
order to
let them exert more control over their writing careers.
The ridiculous hoop jumping that
authors have to endure in
order to have their books even sold in a «real» bookstore,
let alone featured, means that indie physical stores have the power to offer
authors something they can't get otherwise, while at the same time not simply competing as violently with major online retailers.
The «simple way» is to buy own books and sell them along the streets... Can, for example, Lulu.com make a deal with LaFeltrinelli.it stores to
let readers to
order one lulu's
author book and then the reader can go to the bookshop to get the
ordered book?
Amazon.com is far less stringent in their vetting of ebooks, but they inadvertently
let fraudulent titles slip through simply because they do not wish to hinder
authors through the upload process by making them wait for their content to be reviewed; Amazon encourages all of its customers to read the free sample chapter before purchasing an ebook in
order to ensure it is an actual original book.
And, if you're up on things, I probably don't have to inform you of a recent letter from some of the top big name
authors requesting letters be sent to Amazon's Jeff Bezos in
order to save
authors and writing and literature and to
let Hachette get its way.
These sites and services
let authors to share their books for free in
order to get feedback and reviews from readers or other
authors.
Let's also forget that they are standing against Amazon in
order to «protect» those
authors published by Hatchette.
Pressing your devices menu key will bring up a menu with various options on it including «Sort
Order» which
lets you sort by Recently Read, Title or
Author, «Manage eBooks» which has options to remove a book from «My eBooks», this appears to also remove it from your account altogether but I'm not 100 % certain of that, there is also a «push pin» icon you can click to ensure a title can be read offline.
Let me invoke one of my favorite
authors in
order to illustrate the sanctity of man - canine relationships: