For the more obscure languages, you might need to contact
local ebook stores that sell hardcopies in your chosen language to ask whether they'll stock your book.
Not exact matches
Since the launch of eSentral, several independent
stores have opened up aiming for a smaller submarket and offering
ebooks both in
local languages and English.
However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason» costs $ 8.97 in PB at Amazon and $ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the
ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book sale or the
local senior center, sell it to my favorite used book
store, etc..
This gives people incentive with coupons for deals and free
ebooks to go out to the
local Chapters / Boarders
store and purchase a new Kobo E-Reader.
It will be retailing for $ 399 in 60 Whitcoulls
store locations nationwide and online at www.whitcoulls.co.nz Kobo offers more than 400,000
local titles and a total of 2.2 million
eBooks,... [Read more...]
The other big feature that Nook boasts, thanks to its connection to a chain of real book
stores, is that you can stop by your
local Barnes and Noble, chill out, and read any Nook
ebook for free for an hour while connected to the
store's Wi - Fi.
Txtr is a German based company who is one of the largest
ebook stores focusing on the
local market.
For instance, an indie author can use a service like Narcissus.me to distribute their
ebook in many different
stores at a
local, national, or international level.
EAF becomes so wildly successful that every library in the US buys our catalog, and every reader in the US stops using Amazon, iTunes, B&N, Kobo, SW, Scribd, Oyster, Google, and every other
ebook store, and instead attains their
ebooks via their
local library.
You can get
ebooks from a wide range of
ebook stores and even get free
ebooks from
local libraries using a service called Overdrive.
We have launched an
eBook Lending Site, an App
Store, a Cloud
eBook Storage Locker, and purchased a
local company to provide schools and the general public with e-readers.
The affiliates program allows the customers of indie bookselling sites and locally owned brick - and - mortar
stores, to still support their
local shops even when purchasing
ebooks by clicking the link on the bookshops» websites.
txtr currently already operates more than 25
local language
eBook stores and is growing its international
eBook offering.
The mindset that allows a company to feel entitled to price an
ebook so high is the same mindset that prompted my
local hardware
store to go for the gold and disregard the hardship being suffered by their devastated and loyal customers.
So I went to the
local half price book
store and found one of them for less than the
ebook.
The
store's Library Finder application continues to provide easy access to
local public libraries to borrow
eBooks for free.
Sony isn't only encouraging its users to «visit» their
local libraries, but has also started a new site, Words Move Me, which is actually a rather clever promotional site for its e-books; the idea being that users will enter their favorite quotes, discuss them, and thus encourage each other to buy the books belonging to the quotes — through Sony's
eBook Store, natch.
With your book listed on Google Books (print) and the Google eBookstore (
ebooks), someone can walk into a
local bookstore (if the
store is also a member of the Google Books Partner Program) and place an order for that book, and the
store gets some credit.
Sony has something similar as you can use its coming Daily Edition PRS - 2121 only at the Sony
store (and the Overdrive
ebook feature at the
local library through the Sony
store connection although the library downloads must be to a computer and not the Sony device).
And perhaps we'll also see Google quickly open its
Ebooks store to the rest of the world: Until now, its policy has been to only sell ebooks in countries where it had established local partner
Ebooks store to the rest of the world: Until now, its policy has been to only sell
ebooks in countries where it had established local partner
ebooks in countries where it had established
local partnerships.
Both
eBook stores also let you access books from your
local library for free, and lend books to friends who also use a Nook or Kindle.
Dailyhunt is India's largest
local language
ebook store that provides books in multiple Indian languages.
These events offer authors and
stores another great opportunity to promoting their titles and spread the word that consumers can buy
eBooks AND support their
local bookstore.
One thing I have begged for in the past is a sort of online
eBook version of the
local neighborhood bookstore that thrives via curation rather than box -
store tactics.
On Tuesday Sony also announced the launch of Library Finder, a new feature of the
eBook Store developed in cooperation with OverDrive, which helps users locate e-book content at their
local library.
Add to that the fear that such a branch might actually open and trample
local competition and... somehow, slowly, most
ebooks stores replaced Adobe DRM with a hassle free watermark on their epubs and mobis, plus in some
stores you can use a send - to - kindle function, so there's no need to sideload books via USB (I think ARe has this function now as well).
I've bought
ebooks from my
local indie
store before, but it feels a little unnatural.
Kindle
ebook store launched in India in 2012 and slowly won customers over from the
local competitor Flipkart.
Although most
eBooks are already available in US Kindle
store, customers can now check out their favorite
eBooks in their
local currency.
As with all NOOK devices, you also have access to the «More In
Store» program that provides exclusive free content such as essays and author interviews when you connect to a B&N Wi - Fi network, and you can read any eBook for up to an hour each day when you visit your local s
Store» program that provides exclusive free content such as essays and author interviews when you connect to a B&N Wi - Fi network, and you can read any
eBook for up to an hour each day when you visit your
local storestore.
Leliveld describes txtr as «a one - stop shop that provides the device, the
store, and the content, including country - specific
local content» thus offering a complete
ebook ecosystem.
And buying
ebooks from
local stores like Flipkart, Infibeam and Pothi.
Sony, working with OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global digital distributor of
eBooks and to libraries, will now offer visitors to the
eBook Store by Sony easy access to their
local library's collection of
eBooks.