Sentences with phrase «number of ebooks out»

Not exact matches

Then after writing a number of screenplays I had a strong feeling that I wanted to start writing books, and I just love the whole idea of writing in the ebook form and getting your work out there.

Most companies that started out between 2009 - 2014 have run into one of a number of walls related to scaling — they couldn't capture enough share to make publishers interested, couldn't get big enough to keep investors interested, tried out a business model that didn't work, couldn't raise cash after VCs moved on from ebooks to the next shiny thing, or their parent company didn't see a path to profitability and decided to wind down.

Whatever the real number clearly Amazon remains the leading ebook vendor and its continuing refusal to support library lending locks libraries out of the most popular format from the vendor with the best title selection and the lowest prices.

From the Pricing Tool page that just went live (in your Dashboard): FREE ebooks - If your book is priced at FREE, the library will have the option to check it out to an unlimited number of library patrons.

This is partly out of experimental interest to see if this improves my numbers any, and partly just because I've been hand - selling the ebook editions for five bucks each — and bringing the base price down to $ 4.99 USD is more in line with that.

Generally speaking, there are three key aspects which define a digital license: the concurrence of users, the number of times a given ebook may be loaned out and the duration of the license.

Circulation, preferably known as the number of times the same ebook may be loaned out during the duration of a license, is another key aspect to be taken into consideration by librarians and publishers.

I suppose if eBooks have done anything, they have contributed to increasing the number of self - publishers out there.

Sixth: if the largest cell phone screens would not do, even the iPhone, Curve, etc., there are all the new netbooks coming out that should get the job done in any number of ways as far as an eBook presentation goes, from reading out loud, dozens of programs to choose from to read or to listen via text to speech, etc..

Another question I find important to ask: Would it be better to publish with Amazon DP and opt - out Kindle in my Smashwords dashboard, or I would get the same number of sales if I distribute my ebook in Kindle Store via Smashwords?

With all of the buzz — both positive and extremely negative — surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook - only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out - of - print and author - held rights» books.

At one point, I noticed that I was getting less than half the time between charges that I had previously gotten and it turned out that I had a large number of ebooks that refused to index.

With the number of fantastic small presses and ebook publishers out there today, getting an internship with a publisher has never been easier.

In our walkup to The FutureBook digital publishing community's #FutureChat, I had written that the analysis, while declaring the staggered International Standard Book Number (ISBN) a goner, had failed to call out Amazon for not reporting its majority share of ebook sales (estimated at 67 percent in the US market) so that the industry - at - large can «see» and quantify itself.

Since ebooks are checked out similarly to books (only the number of copies that the library owns can be «out» at a time), I think the publishers have less to worry about than they think.

There is a trend developing that when an ebook has achieved a significant number of sales the mainstream houses will seek out the ebook author and put a pbook publishing deal on the table.

We take the stress out of finding your eBook cover, editing and formatting your work, paying for those irritating ISBN numbers and so much more.

But with online print and ebook sales, a book might never go out of print under the «not available for sale» definition, and online sales — no matter how limited — can keep the book active under the «x number of sales per royalty period» definition.

A number of companies currently offer digitization services that operate well within the law; companies can digitize their back data for storage, and readers can order ebook copies of out - of - print and rare editions.

When you subscribe to Amazon Prime you get access to a number of benefits that allow you to read ebooks for free or loan them out to friends if you live in the United States.

«30 % of the ebooks being purchased in the U.S. do not use ISBN numbers,» writes Howey — a statistic that forces us to question the validity of all data that comes out of ISBN tracking.

For instance, a shoe - selling website put out a free ebook that actually had a number of useful things to say about finding and taking care of shoes, and that went into a fair bit of detail on topics that weren't otherwise well - covered in my index.

Barblan explained Bowker's initial involvement with these partners as a way to help smaller entities compete more effectively in the book market; as so many customers begin their involvement in publishing by seeking out Bowker as a source of ISBN numbers, the next logical step was also the need to have trackable metadata and ebook editions of those books, leading Bowker to explore fulfilling this need in some way.

This is of course not the case with ebooks and other companies like Harpercollins implemented a cap on the number of times a book can be loaned out before the library has to order additional copies.

The company is becoming more focused on mobile devices since in the last quarter the number of users checking out audiobooks and ebooks has increased by over 33 %.

Some of the popularity of ebook lending libraries that OverDrive has noted for the calendar year 2011 through September 30th include almost triple the number of ebook check - outs over all of 2010, more than two million new users signed up for this year, and a rise in smartphone reading to account for 21 % of all ebook checkouts.

But for authors with the right technical know - how, creating tablet PC - specific interactive ebook files known as enhanced ebooks that contain complete audio, video, and astounding numbers of graphics have made their works stand out from the digital crowd.

A number of blogs and news sites posted uncharacteristically wary responses to this week's announcements coming out in the world of self - publishing and ebook - only imprints.

With a market flooded with user - created ebooks across an ever - growing number of distribution platforms, indie authors have discovered that making their work stand out from the crowd is a full time job on its own.

Taking this shift a step farther, CEO Victoria Barnsley pointed out that 20 % of sales currently comes from ebook titles, but with the current rate of growth, that number should rise within the next year and a half.

For example, HarperCollins limits the number of times and ebook can be checked out to twenty - six loans, a number it arrived at based on the average life span of a print library book.

There are a number of highly competitive websites out there that compete with each other to provide a mostly free service to borrow and lend out ebooks.

PubSoft's publisher dashboard currently offers far too many features to identify, but highlights include a publisher - branded interface for the growing number of readers who are seeking out publisher websites for information on their favorite authors, a branded ebook store where their readers can purchase titles, real - time data on tracking book sales and royalties, and more.

That means you sell them, in essence, the right to loan out your eBook for one year, or for a certain number of loans.

You can sign up for most library cards online for free, and if your local library doesn't have ebooks there are a number of out - of - state libraries that offer non-resident library cards for a yearly fee.

Given the number of self - published authors out there, whether for POD books or eBooks, you need to stand out from the crowd.

Other stories included our tip of the week, Sony bowing out of the ebooks business, similarities between high - earning authors and the number of indies topping the bestseller charts.

The reports don't indicate if anyone pointed out that library budgets already impose a great deal of «friction» into the process, limiting the number of copies of ebooks libraries can buy.

You may scoff, but this is something important to consider as a surprising number of readers who download your ebook will print it out to read.

A surprising number of Kindle users out there still don't know how to send ebooks, web pages and personal documents to their Kindle ereaders, Fire tablets, and Kindle apps wirelessly using any of Amazon's send - to - Kindle apps or email.

Other major specifics were left out of the announcement: the length of the lending period, which publishers will participate in the program, and if there will be any limit to the number of times a Kindle ebook can be checked out.

Yes, the mass of self - published authors out there will create a tier of value - priced books (this has already been done), and I'm sure in a couple of years Amazon will release another spate of numbers that will show how much more profitable $ 6.99 eBooks are as compared to $ 9.99 eBooks, and so on.

Harper Collins limited the number of downloads on their eBooks to 26 because they figure since their print books wear out their eBooks should to.

The latest Book Marketing Survey carried out by KindleBookReview provides a number of interesting insights into the best ways self - published authors should be promoting their ebooks.

In other words, if Pamela's grandmother can't figure out how to download the ebook to her new, never - used Kindle lovingly given to her by her doting great grandchildren (a likely scenario), it does not add to Pamela's number of ebooks sold.

These are two separate processes and having done both a number of times now, I suggest the quickest way to get your book out there once you have a final edited manuscript is to launch the eBook first.

If you'd like to find out the exact number of ebooks available where you live, here's the quickest way to do it:

There are 10 steps to creating an ebook, and if you find this useful, you might like to try out my online course, which has a number of videos that demonstrate the steps.»

eBook Architects rightly points out that: With the increasing number of eBook creation tools and...

As we all wait with bated breath for the 15th (or thereabouts) of the month which will reveal August's borrow rate for ebooks on Kindle Unlimited (my bet is on a range of $ 1.60 - $ 1.70), I thought I'd set out a few numbers I've crunched about the effects of the first couple of months of Kindle Unlimited and the ebook subscription business in general.