Sentences with phrase «much about ebook publishing»

I've learned much about ebook publishing by reading your comoments.

Not exact matches

There's so much we have to learn about publishing when we start down the writing path, even if we stay on the traditional route, and ebook formatting is one more thing on that list.

(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 especially liked the one about questions for eBook publishing and the Shakespearean Three Little Pigs was verily much to the amusement and edification of my spirit, forsoothly.

If you are a publisher and all you think about are books and ebooks, you may be missing something as publishing today encompasses much more than this.

When I was publishing Do Share Inspire, since it is a physical book and an ebook, I learned so much more about self - publishing; getting into bookshops; and even marketing!

Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am

Not much to think about when the choice is between a) one or two traditionally published novels which probably cost close to 8 or 9 euros as paperbacks and ebooks or b) twice or thrice as many self - published kindle ebooks from writers I have already read and found to be good enough.

Much of the debate about the future of publishing has concentrated on the print versus ebook dynamic.

And Sebba's remarks (her Amazon author page is here for you) may have revealed at least as much about the suspicion and dislike many in the publishing community still harbor for ebooks as about their concern for how today's books are sold.

If you are one that has a traditional publisher, you may not have to worry too much about your book cover art; however, for the «Indie», or self - publishing author, coming up with an effective cover design for both your printed book and digital ebook may seem a daunting process.

«Not only do ebooks cost too much, DRM is a disgrace, for a myriad of reasons, and the «text to speech» feature is not something the publishing world should be concerned about,» Konrath wrote to Kindle Nation last week.

When authors think about publishing a book, they are often focused on print, but putting an ebook out alongside your print book, or even just an ebook on its own, is a much better idea.

(I know that this, like much of publishing, is changing, but in June 2009 most traditional publishers were adamant about not publishing print and ebooks at the same time.)

In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.

But I don't sense that CEO Tim Cook, and especially iTunes czar Eddy Cue, care much about digital publishing, possibly feeling a bit burned by the government's eBook lawsuit.

When I thought about it for the rest of the day though it got me thinking about just how much ebooks are changing the profile of book publishing and bookselling and how quickly that is happening.

There is no doubt that for many years the serious legal publishers have been much further ahead of ebook technology, the latter being about simple devices for reading basic narrative in consumer publishing environments.