Your eBook would be available for purchase at hundreds
of eBook outlets including, Amazon's Kindle, Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony e-Reader, Kobo, Certa Publishing and many more!
You can publish with Smashwords or through any of the other hundreds
of ebook outlets.
Not exact matches
The story ignited a media firestorm in the U.K, with major news
outlets like the Daily Mail, The Guardian, and the BBC reporting on the «sales
of sick
ebooks.»
The U.S. Department
of Justice alleges that Apple, as it prepared to launch its own
ebook store, persuaded publishers to price
ebooks at $ 13 and $ 15, or about $ 3 more than the same books being sold through Amazon and other
outlets.
Pros and Cons: Kobo vs. Smashwords Until now, Smashwords has been the go - to method
of distribution to other
ebook outlets, but Smashwords can be slow to make books available on other sites.
You are solely responsible for the marketing and promotion
of your
eBook, for compliance with any applicable laws, regulations or rules in connection with such marketing and promotion and for your participation in blogs, social media or any other marketing forums and
outlets, whether in print, on line, or in person.
Using print - on - demand (POD) technology, they can avoid printing books until they are ordered, meaning no print run costs and no warehousing expenses;
ebooks,
of course, can just be sold directly via Amazon and other
outlets.
As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold through most major
ebook retail
outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the price range
of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.
«There is an incredible appetite for eReaders and
eBooks in Hong Kong, but until today, a limited selection
of over-priced eReaders has curbed adoption,» said Chris Li
of Swindon Book Co., Ltd. «By making the Kobo Wireless eReading easily available to customers at Swindon's retail and online
outlets, we are solving this problem and meeting customer demand.»
Readmill only launched its iPhone app in February
of this year, but has already established partnerships with eighty different publishers who are looking to working directly with their readers as they bypass typical
ebook distribution
outlets like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Agency pricing, for those who have not been following the most important development in the growth
of the book market, enabled the publishers to enforce a uniform price for each
ebook title across all retail
outlets
While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional
outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back -
of - the - room sales or as
ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary
of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.
It goes beyond the rhetoric and paranoid proclamations rampant in social media, blogs, and news
outlets to provide provable, unbiased insight into the users, devices, formats, and real world economics
of ebooks, fixed - layout
ebooks, digital textbooks, digital magazines, and more for all levels
of publishing — enterprise, small - to medium - sized publishing, indy publishing, and self publishing.
For now, Nielsen will be gathering these sales numbers from four
of the largest
ebook outlets, Amazon, Apple's bookstore, Barnes & Noble, and Google Books, which is an added incentive to self - published authors to make sure their
ebooks are compatible and uploaded to those retailers.
http://ebookbargainsuk.wordpress.com/author/ebookbargainsuk/ Here's a quote from the blog: «35 %
of ebooks sold in the USA and Australia are through
outlets other than Amazon.
60 %
of ebooks sold in Germany are through
outlets other than Amazon.
What actually may make this venture far more profitable than enhanced
ebooks from a few years ago is the building on the HTML5 platform for ease
of consumption across multiple platforms, as well as Pubsoft's original offering to the digital publishing industry
of creating streamlined, one - stop - shopping for authors and publishers to market, sell, and retrieve royalties on their titles, regardless
of retail
outlet.
There were calls by other publishing executives to segregate
ebooks on retail
outlets based on the method
of publication.
Comic Days is a mixed
of yet another
ebook outlet and a digital magazine subscription.
The final unique feature
of ebooks over their conventional counterpart is the affect on the environment, no trees cut down for paper or packaging, no carbon produced or bleaches used by production factories, no shop
outlets to heat or light, no recycling problem at the end
of their life and no convoys
of trucks delivering them.
We don't know if the reason trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the format or because the number
of retail
outlets carrying trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss
of many chain bookstore locations, where most trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between trade paper and
ebook, the average reader will choose
ebook.
What it overlooks entirely is the flood
of self - published
eBooks that is swamping the market to the point that it actually chokes
outlets.
Despite the sense that society is becoming reduced to streaming scrollers
of news snippets and blaring sound bites, readers
of every circulation size seem to be embracing the opportunity to go much deeper into a news item, if the number
of outlets publishing long - form
ebooks is any indication.
Mike Edwards, CEO
of Borders, Inc. said that by using the program, «authors can quickly and easily load, format and publish content, which will then be available for sale within a few days on Borders.com and other major
eBook outlets.
Obviously, the publishers are not happy with the sweeping changes in what has proven to be the largest retail book
outlet for consumers in Canada, but supporters
of the stores and its new model are quick to point out that the bookseller is simply trying to survive in the digital era;
of course, the publishers themselves are also trying to survive the
ebook revolution, and losing some
of their allies won't help.
Publisher's Weekly posted an article on its blog that allowed various publishing industry professionals from a variety
of outlets to expand on the generally accepted prediction that
ebooks will make up 50 %
of total trade book sales within five years.
Would you rather have 20,000
ebook sales on Amazon, with no shot at bookstore placements or the New York Times bestseller list — or would you rather have only 5,000
of your print books scattered through local Barnes & Noble and other retail
outlets around the country?
The numbers I've seen thrown around as «conventional wisdom» (as opposed to hard data, which you are citing) is 4 %
of print fiction is sold through Amazon, which makes them the single largest print
outlet in the world per store (counting them as one store), and about 75 %
of ebooks are sold through Amazon.
MG: What's the # 1 piece
of actionable advice you'd give to indie authors confused about
ebook pricing strategies and available
outlets?
If you buy copyright
ebooks from either Amazon or another
outlet, you'll find they're protected by what's called DRM (digital rights management)-- effectively a kind
of encryption that prevents people from distributing pirate copies
of books illegally.
Buddy World Books are a range
of digital picture books available to view online and are now available to buy through iBooks and other
ebook outlets.
The price
of a self - published
ebook title selling for $ 2.99 at other
outlets was reduced inexplicably by Amazon for some time to 99 cents, although no rival site was underselling it.
By giving away a number
of free
eBooks away before the release, you can request that they give you a review on Amazon or whichever
outlet you choose to sell your book through as soon as the book is live.
Several media
outlets however caution that the «talks» are simply about
eBook pricing in light
of the recent DOJ settlement.
It is a systematic move by the dominant
outlet for hard copy book sales to do two things: hamstring it's direct competitors for
ebook sales and drive buyers towards Amazon's
ebook reader and online sales
of ebooks, which are a tremendous profit center for «The Big A».
XYZ publishing guarantees that they will distribute the novel, in
ebook format, to tens
of thousands
of outlets (such as Amazon, Smashwords, and so on).
Pennsauken, NJ — BookBaby announced two new major add - ons to its
eBook distribution ecosystem — Google Play and OverDrive — two
of the largest digital
eBook retail
outlets in the world, certain to help expand the reach and sales
of BookBaby's self - published authors.
If we assume that Amazon has even as high as 70 %
of the market for indie
ebook sales, authors may be giving up 30 %
of their potential earnings in order to reap 13 % more from a single
outlet.
As Kindle sales, and B&N's Nook and Apple's iBookstore and sales through the multiplying
ebook retail
outlets grow to 10 %
of group revenue US and UK publishers can begin to plausible include revenue projections for digital editions
of new titles.
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Ebook available at Amazon, for now, and print book at a variety
of outlets including your local bookstore, on special order.
So, if Amazon wanted to sell my «Writers Gone Wild» (from Penguin) as a «loss leader» price
of $ 5.99, they would not be allowed to unless the publisher agreed to lower the price, and that price would be carried by all the other
eBook outlets.
You can potentially reach the majority
of readers by having your book and
ebook available through online
outlets.
I've been asked to create a series
of Children Books into
ebooks, and the only suitable
outlet I am finding is the Nook Color, yet B&N doesn't give formatting guidelines.
If the major publishers switch to selling
ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety
of outlets and move away from the walled garden
of the Kindle store.
The online retailer «threatened the long - term, overall health
of the book publishing industry,» said Penguin, «by creating barriers to entry, undercutting the margins and incentives
of other sellers, fostering a perception
of ebooks as lowcost commodities, and threatening the viability
of book publishers and authors, as well as other book selling
outlets vital to the marketing and promotion
of books».
Although we see reports
of more and more authors making large sales via these
ebook outlets, and there are more and more free
ebooks to be had — there are also suggestions that most
of those authors won't last longer than 2 years, and then be replaced by another author who won't last 2 years.
The publishing house assumes the costs
of editing, design, manufacturing,
ebook conversion, distribution, marketing, publicity, and special sales (into retail
outlets not served by the publisher's book distributors).
Science fiction author Charlie Stross, in a much - read post, writes, «If the major publishers switch to selling
ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety
of outlets and move away from the walled garden
of the Kindle store.»
If One - Third
of All
EBooks Purchased In The U.S. Are Now Obviously And Verifiably Self - Published, Why Do Publishing Industry News
Outlets And Pundits Continue To Claim Otherwise?