Fictionwise is one
of the early ebook stores, having got started back in the Palm days, and has been a good supporter of the emerging industry standard, ePub.
And in a further twist, the issue might just expose the shaky legal foundations on which much
of the early ebook industry rests.
When I assign that number I imagine my book getting assigned in a «Critical Review
of Early Ebook Authors» class or some such and it motivates me to do the best job I can.
One of the chief complaints
of the early ebook adopters was that their favorite out - of - print titles were not available in digital formats, and they couldn't enjoy the portability and protection that e-readers offered.
Our customers sent a clear message through the success
of our early eBook efforts — they want to read more electronic books.
As for books — I was involved in one
of the earliest ebook efforts.
Not exact matches
Side note: I've put together a few other examples
of strong case studies in that Future
of Location 2018
ebook I mentioned
earlier.
Whether you're tweaking a top -
of - the - funnel
ebook, a middle -
of - the - funnel product webinar, or a bottom -
of - the - funnel live demo, the following tips as well as the detailed persona profiles you created
earlier will help you tailor your offers to suit these individual personas.
Earlier today I sent out a free PDF copy
of my newest
eBook, Book Publishing Instructions, to all my email newsletter subscribers.
Earlier today I sent out a free PDF copy
of my newest
eBook to all my newsletter subscribers.
Rachel Anderson, psychologist and founder
of Consciously Parenting NZ liases with the
early childhood centres and other organizations that host Genevieve's seminars and Tabitha Johnson, primary teacher and mother
of two is involved with the development
of eBooks and other products that PPI offer.
How to Help Your Child Talk: The
eBook provides over 45 full pages
of educational, evidenced based information that can be utilized by parents, speech - language pathologists,
early interventionists,
early childhood educators and other
early childhood specialists.
This article is from an
earlier ebook and is now out
of date!
Earlier today, I was flipping through my copy
of The Gelatin Secret, my friend Sylvie's beautiful new
ebook.
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.
In the latest sign
of this disruption, author John Locke — who
earlier this year became the first self - published author to sell a million
ebooks — has signed an innovative deal with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance
of power.
«I am an
early embracer
of eBook publishing and print publishing is a dinosaur», «I am a self publisher and all traditional publishers are ripoff merchants and, anyway, they are dinosaurs.»
I am an
early adopter
of ebooks (probably because I don't have any more bookshelf space and am tired
of paying for storage!).
Hopefully, they'll also work on publishers to offer a short term rental option, giving them a further point
of difference and, at the same time, turning what for many
early users is a negative — that you can't download the
ebooks you «own» — into a positive: that you don't need to own or download them because you've just rented them.
This would be consistent with
earlier claims by Amazon's Jeff Bezos that, where a book is available in both e - and p - formats, about 35 %
of sales are
ebooks.
Reports as
early as March suggested the Department
of Justice had opened an investigation into an alleged 2010 deal between Apple and the five publishers — Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster — that forced Amazon to raise
ebook prices.
At the moment, in these
early days for
eBooks, mainly yes, while most
eBooks are simply digital facsimile digital replicas
of print originals.
Authors who made a mint in the
early stages
of the rise
of eBooks are now being forced out
of business, simply because there are better, or cheaper books out there.
Winner Number One: Amazon, which said
earlier this week it drop prices once again on
ebooks, many
of which it had been selling for $ 9.99 before the so - called «collusion.»
«ProQuest will announce in
early 2015 the launch
of a beta program for ProQuest
Ebook Central.
Simon & Schuster first got involved in distributing their vast collection
of eBooks to libraries
earlier this year.
One
of our customers allow their end users to customer the ex libris in their own
eBooks, like the personal stamp from
earlier times.
A unique feature to look forward to is the «Learn to Read Collection
of Ultra
eBooks» that includes 300 keywords to help
early readers in developing phonics and decoding skills, sight word recognition, and reading comprehension.
Earlier in November, McDonal had made available about 2 million
ebooks to families in the US as part
of their Happy Meal Books Promotion that also coincided with National Family Literacy Day.
The British government had formed a task force
earlier this year to investigate the potential impact
of ebook lending in order to consider mandating lending; the task force was made up
of voices from various sectors in the book industry, but the news led to concerns that libraries would possibly suffer in an era
of all - digital lending adoption.
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.
Penguin has really warmed up to the idea
of digital
ebook lending, forging a new agreement with the 3M Cloud Library
earlier in the month.
In the
ebook, Gutman traces Lin's rise from his
earliest days as the child
of Taiwanese immigrants in California.
One
of the
early top names in travel
ebooks was Lonely Planet, a publisher who happily morphed from the printed pocket guides to each country or region into adoption
of full - color
ebooks that could be used both online and offline.
One
of the
early complaints about
ebooks was that they weren't taking full advantage
of the possibilities that digital provided.
But readers were all over those
early 99 - cent
ebooks because they were such a bargain, and numerous self - published authors leaped to the tops
of the bestseller lists.
This success was facilitated by Amazon's careful analysis
of previous failed attempts to commercialize
ebooks since the
early 1990s, and
earlier theoretical models developed since the 1930s.
2 min readWe can all agree that when it comes to
eBooks, we're still at the very
early stages
of their existence.
But all this is assuming (A)
ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the
early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply
of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for
ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage
of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for
ebooks, or any content, in five years.
Of course, we've had our disagreements on the topic —
early on, especially — when the topic came to Apple and the
eBook market.
Further afield, in the Arabic speaking world, Kotobi.com, a major new ebookstore, is finding
early success and is taking on Neel wa Furat, the major incumbent, where
ebooks currently represent some 10 %
of the bookseller's annual revenue.
And since every new book needs reviews, and a Goodreads Giveaway is free, it pays to make
early and regular use
of this important promotional tool (btw, this is for print books only, no
eBooks allowed).
But, I thought, if I could sell some
early copies
of EE5, maybe I could come up with a couple hundred dollars to pay for turning the short story into an
ebook.
I took the opportunity to link
earlier ebook developments to the success
of the Kindle.
His wait - list has gotten longer
of late, so you'll want to book
early if you want to use him, but he's quite affordable at $ 200 for cover art and $ 300 for paperback cover design (which also comes with an
ebook cover).
Choosing to read a book on a massive CRT monitor back in the
early 90's was an eye sore, and the accessibility
of eBooks were limited.
Traditional accounts
of the
eBook recall
early failures to monetize the
eBook through expensive hardware experiments from 1999 to 2006, but this ignores a wider range
of precedents apparent from a media archaeological excavation
of the
eBook before the Kindle.
For now, let me tell you about the pair
of books — one published in paperback last week on August 6 and the other published as an
ebook earlier this year.
Early adopters
of the device are reporting that the Nexus 7 can open EPUB formatted
eBooks, which you can create right here on Lulu, as well as... Continue Reading →
Selection
of eBook sites (mainly the three I mentioned
earlier, but this landscape is changing so rapidly it is best to keep up with developments)