When it comes to nudging prospective customers to click the buy button,
most ebook samples are only marginally better than the book's product page description.
Not exact matches
This is just a
sampling of some of the killer ideas you'll discover in my internationally best - selling
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Lagardère Publishing:
eBooks Account For 5 % Of Total Net Sales... 5657 readers From the MPS blog: While
most people were enjoying a well - deserved break, our EPUB 3 team has been busy working on a
sample for the iPad.
Sign up for a B&N account and you can download free
samples of
most ebooks before purchasing; this is also a good way to make sure the formatting of a book is acceptable before you buy it.
The Kindle app lets you do things like adjust yours font sizes, free
ebook samples, and
most importantly, wireless bookmark synchronization.
There's an article over at Digitimes about E Ink, the company behind the display technology used in
most ebook readers today,
sampling out two new color touchscreen electrophoretic displays to their vendors.
Long ago I suggested that
ebook samples are one of a publisher's
most underutilized marketing assets.
The reason for this is that the
sampling process at
most eBook stores only allows the potential reader to see the first 10 % of the
eBook.
Now that I'm back in a publishing role I plan to take my own advice and make sure that we're getting the
most out of our
ebook samples.
The logic of putting promotional material in the back of the
eBook is once again due to the
sampling constraints at
most eBook stores.
The
most interesting facet to
ebooks I've heard so far, actually, is that you get to read
sample chapters.