Sentences with phrase «of ebooks the imprint»

Writer Ilan Stavans is now set to don the publisher cap as well with the launch of an ebook imprint, Restless Books.

We come from the Future About Blog SF Gateway is part catalogue site, highlighting and promoting the thousands of eBooks the imprint publishes; it is part gateway (pardon the inevitable pun) to the online retailers from whom these eBooks can be bought; part community hub for readers who wish to discuss and recommend authors and books with their fellow enthusiasts; and part commentary / blog site.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, Author Solutions acquired another one of its competitors, Xlibris; entered partnerships with traditional publishers Thomas Nelson and Harlequin to create self - publishing imprints; and partnered with Sony to make all of their books available as eBooks.

He is spearheading a number of experiments, including ebook - first and genre imprints; illustrated and collectible ebooks; and DRM - free and English - language publishing.

In March 2002, his collection of short stories «Everything's Eventual» was launched in print by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and as an ebook in Palm Digital Media, with an excerpt that could be freely downloaded.

While I am sure they counted verifiable ebook sales I am still suspicious that their survey did not take into account the many publishing imprints that fall under the umbrella of Kindle Direct Publishing and others who are not members of AAP and therefore paint an incomplete picture if there was a market shift.

Despite being single - retailer exclusive to Amazon Kindle, the dozen or so Amazon «house» publishing imprints between them account for 14 % of all US ebook sales, 10 % of all UK ebook sales, and 8 % of Australian ebook sales.

Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint is the first to take the leap, publishing several books — including the latest from Jude Deveraux, a smart move since romance readers are some of the most ardent ebook readers — with Vook last week.

Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]

Macmillan and Overdrive announced a new ebook pilot program last month that will see a number of titles from their Minotaur imprint become available to libraries.

In early 2013, Macmillan started a public library pilot program with a select group of backlist ebooks from its Minotaur Books mystery and crime fiction imprint.

In Canada, the Amazon Imprint footprint is a much more modest 3 % of all ebook sales, largely due to the substantial shares of the overall Candian ebook market held by Kobo (25 %) and Apple (14 %).»

(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.

Before Amazon emerged, there were six major publishing houses, each with several imprints; Amazon indirectly had a significant impact on their finances through the ebook price fixing investigation that resulted in settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars from the publishers alone.

Random House is starting a new imprint entitled Random Romance to launch a series of digital first ebooks.

Earlier in the month, Macmillan removed DRM altogether from its TOR imprint of books, which was a huge positive step forward in making ebooks easily transferable to your myriad of devices.

Whether you agree with Macmillan's push for new terms of sale for their ebooks or not, one thing that's been particularly impressive is the extremely vocal support they've received from their authors, particularly those published by their sci - fi / fantasy imprint Tor / Forge.

Macmillan announced in late April that they would be the first Big Six house to routinely deliver a large portion of their ebook output — all the titles published by Tom Doherty's imprint, which includes both Tor and Forge — as DRM - free ebooks.

However, sales of independently published ebooks have been growing, which instead suggests that publishers are losing ebook market shares to indie authors and Amazon imprints, rather than that the success of digital books and their consumption is dropping overall.

Phaze is the erotic romance imprint of Mundania Press, LLC., offering erotic romance and women's erotica in print and ebook formats.

Now, as part of the deal with Vintage Books, the paperback and ebooks will be released under that imprint.

Amazon has developed three separate and distinct publishing options under its logo: Kindle Direct Publishing is the ebook - only indie publishing division, CreateSpace produces self - published print editions of books and makes them available for purchase through Amazon.com, and Amazon Publishing is the more traditional agent submission - only imprint.

GoodEReader.com has covered a number of publishing houses that have constructed ebook - only imprints which offer an amazing amount of output in titles, as well as unheard of royalties to their author clients.

In the case of Hydra, a science fiction ebook - only imprint owned by Random House, the theory is that authors will not receive royalties, but will instead receive payment on what is closer to a profit - sharing system of the net profits.

When digital - first or ebook - only imprints were first conceived of, they were criticized for changing the long - held dynamic of a traditional publishing deal.

25 % of all sales stem from eBooks, but their new imprints are not doing that well.

According to a New York Times article by David Streitfeld, publishers at a number of houses are concerned that Amazon's ability to pull in major bestselling authors, as well as take away the need for agents through its ebook publishing model, Kindle Direct Publishing, and through author submissions to its imprint.

In the case of Ragan, who actually sold over 250,000 ebooks in her first year of indie publication, the attention her books received in terms of sales led to a contract for her books to be published by Thomas & Mercer, the mystery imprint of Amazon's traditional publishing house, Amazon Publishing.

While many ebook - first and ebook - only publishers like Ellora's or Carina — the digital imprint of romance genre mainstay Harlequin — accept unagented authors» submissions, they are also pushing a higher volume of titles; in the case of Ellora's, they are releasing eight to twelve titles each week and signing authors like Laurann Dohner to 75 - book deals.

Over a year ago, traditional publishers like Harlequin made headlines and raised eyebrows by announcing the formation of imprints within their publishing houses that were dedicated to ebook - only works; the benefit to these imprints was twofold.

There is a broad variety of ebook - only publishers and imprints opening to meet the needs of writers and voracious readers alike, many of whom are born out of reputable and knowledgeable members of the publishing industry.

Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»

Because You Are Mine will be available exclusively as an eBook published by InterMix, the e-initial imprint of Berkley and NAL (part of the Penguin Group).

Amazon signs authors to one of their imprints who sell lots of ebooks on their Kindle Direct Publishing platform or they bid on the rights to the... [Read more...]

Algonquin, an imprint of Workman Publishing, is offering customers a discount towards the purchase of an ebook for each of its trade paperbacks purchased at more than 300 Barnes and Noble locations throughout the month of July.

The judge stated: «They have offered no evidence that consumers who use Apple's iBooks software to download ebooks have come to believe that Apple has also entered the publishing business and is the publisher of all of the downloaded books, despite the fact that each book bears the imprint of its actual publisher.»

Convenient collections of thousands of acclaimed eBooks in a range of core subjects — from the award - winning Facts On File, Chelsea House, Ferguson's, and Bloom's imprints — at a fraction of the cost of purchase.

With last week's launch of Odyssey Editions, his Kindle - only ebook imprint, a range of his authors are now available digitally for the first time.

The question rose from a discussion of ECW's new ebook imprint.

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.

Harlequin, a mainstay of romance publisher, launched its Carina Press imprint to put high - quality romance ebooks on the market at an astounding rate of between four and ten titles per week, back at a time when some critics were still arguing the ebooks and digital reading were nothing more than a fad.

It's an accepted fact that romance fans dominate the digital market, as shown by the high numbers of ebooks sales, the romance publishers who've established ebook - only and digital - first imprints, and the success stories of bestselling self - published romance authors.

Following the recent firestorm of rage directed at Random House over its terms for publication on any of its ebook - first imprints, the company issued a press... [Read more...]

GoodEReader reported last year how a major publisher, Workman's Algonquin imprint, was experimenting with ebook bundling as a means to get readers into the bookstores and away from the ease of making their purchases from online retail booksellers.

Despite the previous whirlwind week that included the Department of Justice going forward with a lawsuit against Apple and two publishers for colluding to force Amazon to raise the prices of its ebooks, as well as the launch of a new device from one of Amazon's key competitors that does something that no current Kindle can do, Amazon calmly announced several highly anticipated titles from its Amazon Publishing division under the New Harvest imprint, newly formed under Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Under the agency model, and working with multiple distributors, Macmillan will offer over 1,200 backlist eBooks from its Minotaur Books mystery and crime fiction imprint, a part of the St. Martins Publishing Group.

The Rise of Alternatives to Traditional Publishers — AuthorEarnings.Com reports that in 2015, nearly half of all ebooks sold on Amazon (the most influential digital retailer) are either self - published, published by micro-publishers, or are generated through an Amazon Imprint.

All of these allegations seem to stem from sales that took place leading up to 2004, well before Harlequin established its ebook imprint, Carina Press, a digital publisher that led the way among publishers for offering unheard of author royalties, doing away with advances in exchange for higher sales payouts, and a radically new output of titles each month.

After noteworthy success with several romance imprints of major publishing houses, Andre became one of the first writers to publisher her own ebook titles immediately following the launch of Barnes & Noble's digital imprint, PubIt!

But Ed Victor, a leading English agent based in London, told me at the recent Book Expo in NYC that he's planning to start his own new imprint to publish new ebook versions for his authors who have out - of - print books as well as original titles by those not wanting to go the traditional route any longer.