Aside from the backing of parent company Barnes & Noble (probably the biggest
name in book retailing in the US), the Nook HD's main selling points are its full HD screen, lightweight build and the ability to set up multiple user profiles.
Entering into a dispute with Amazon would risk HarperCollins alienating the biggest
name in book retail just ahead of the release of Harper Lee's book «Go Set a Watchman.»
Not exact matches
Calia (the
name is inspired by the calla lily) is sold exclusively at Dick's Sporting Goods (dks), a massive sports
retailer that has 676 stores across 47 states and has
booked $ 5.4 billion
in sales for the first nine months of the current fiscal year.
Even more beneficial to libraries, patrons, and rights holders, the company also works
in retailing digital content, allowing patrons to purchase titles from
names like comic and graphic novel platform Comics Plus and CoverCake, an analytics tool that helps drive vertical engagement through its
in - app
book discovery tool.
Warning note: if you are uploading to Apple, take care not to mention other
retailers by
name anywhere
in the
book or they will decline to publish it.
globalReach distribution is essential for any author looking to increase their readership
in stores because it enables your
book to be available through the wholesaler, Ingram Book Company, which is the preferred go - between of most big - name retail
book to be available through the wholesaler, Ingram
Book Company, which is the preferred go - between of most big - name retail
Book Company, which is the preferred go - between of most big -
name retailers.
A world
in which the publishers have total control over the
retail price of all «
name»
books is really scary.
The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR
books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their
names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting
in multiple copies of the same worthless
book flooding the catalog) is that the various
retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.
Compatible with a wide series of file formats such as ePub (Adobe DRM protected), PDF (Adobe DRM protected), BBeB
Book (PRS DRM protected), Text and RTF DRM - encrypted files as well as regular PDF, RTF and DOC files, to
name just a few, Sony's Reader Daily Edition is available
in silver and
retails for about $ 299.
Amazon has made its
name by offering wildly discounted
books; however, as noted
in an article by The New York Times, when competition wanes, online
retailers like Amazon take advantage of the monopoly and abuse prices.
It would be interesting to know if Overstock is actually doing as the
name implies and gathering up leftover merchandise —
in this case,
books from publishing houses — or simply brokering the
books directly from the publishers like any other
retail outlet.
· Simon & Schuster digital
book promotion «We find out what type of website the author has, how many
names are
in the author's database, we use
retailers sites, e-mail to existing user
names in our database, produce videos, we have the author create «extra things» to put up on YouTube, Twitter and My Space, and we send chapters to specific niche
book bloggers.»
The actual Nook
retail site has some of the same bugs as Kobo,
in that if you click on an author
name you get a lot of extraneous random
books.
Lynch joined the
book retailer in 2009, just as work on the first Nook e-reader (then known by its code
name Bravo) had gotten underway.
JK Rowling s Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince scooped
book of the year
in 2006 and
in 2015 a resurgent Waterstones was
named book retailer of the year.
Amazon is continuing its global march by making a big move into the country that could rightfully lay claim to being responsible for Amazon's
name: today the online
book and
retail marketplace announced it would be launching its Kindle Store
in Brazil.
Indigo
Books & Music Inc. (TSX: IDG) is a publicly traded Canadian company and the largest
book retailer in Canada, operating bookstores
in all provinces under the
names Indigo, Chapters, The World's Biggest Bookstore and Coles.
The platform, originally founded as Vook
in 2009 and relaunched
in 2015 under a new
name, provided digital
book publishing tools to authors for free and distributed the e-books to
retailers, including Amazon, Apple and Google Play, without taking a commission.