Symmetrically, a growing
number of publishers keep complaining about Apple's harsh terms; as a result, in the coming months, we'll see many prominent publishers exit the Apple ecosystem and switch instead to web - based apps (a move that is actually more complicated than it appears).
Not exact matches
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.
If
publishers collude to
keep their prices high, a
number of people are hurt.
The real news is that over the last five years a series
of structural changes in the market — a dramatic increase in the
number of people able to read e-books, online retailers able to
keep books in stock and in print indefinitely, and major
publishers abandoning the mid-list — have made it possible for individuals and small organizations to define publishing success differently.
Book
publishers will note the
number and engagement
of your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google +, and Pinterest followers — but they'll also
keep an eye on website - related stats, such as:
This results in the
number of returns to
publishers are
kept very low single digits, compared to an industry average
of 25 %.
I don't have * time * to spend years in agent and
publisher hunting, I
keep spreadsheets on all the projects, have a really good eye for covers (have seen some Truly Ghastly commercially printed covers, though obviously not yours), and um, a rather large
number of books to write.
Although it's difficult to tell from Nielsen's
numbers, it's also likely that print sales are getting a somewhat artificial boost over e-books because
publishers have been
keeping the price
of electronic editions higher than they would otherwise be.
Now that greater - than - ever
numbers of consumers are engaging with reading content on their tablets, there are a
number of considerations to
keep in mind when a
publisher attempts to make the leap from a print edition to a tablet - based digital edition.
I think there will also be a
number of «secret» deals with existing
publishers to
keep A listers happy.
The key issue though is that the Justice Department has suggested that Apple and a
number of publishers colluded to
keep prices high.
Keep a record
of the page
numbers that you have quoted from along with the title, the author, the
publisher and the year
of publishing.
Truth is, as a business — being my own
publisher — that is my job to
keep track
of sales
numbers.
You just place a «
publisher» order and I recommend this because you only have to order the
number of books you need (I get a carton at a time, since there's a discount when you order whole cartons) and only
keep on hand what I need.
While the POD self - pub services aren't truly self - publishing, they're equally dissimilar to the pre-digital vanity
publishers, where you paid a company to print X
number of books that were shipped to you and which you then
kept in your basement or garage.
Keep in mind that the
number of ebooks and authors is steadily increasing all the time, as more deals are reached with
publishers.
And to top it all off, the
publisher sometimes known for excessive greed isn't
keeping any
of the proceed for themselves; all
of the money will be split between Humble Bundle and a
number of great charities.