Sentences with phrase «of ebook publishers»

Is there a single source that is considered a valid Consumer - Reports - type of evaluator of ebook publishers?

Hi Alice, My main reasons for doing it myself are: * You only pay 1 middleman i.e. Amazon — if you go through someone else you pay them as well as Amazon / other retailers * Ease of updates and they are also free — some of these ebook publishers will charge you to update It's really easy to do your own files now, use Scrivener or another package.

A lot of the ebook publishers out there are fleecing authors as far as I can tell.

But unlike the wealth of ebook publishers out there, Medallion's new venture will be about creating something new in the world of enhanced ebooks.

I've been happy with epublishing; have already self - pubbed print versions of an ebook the publisher wasn't going to put in print.

As the study showed, digital book sales for about one - third of the ebooks publishers now make up double digit revenue, and the sales of ebooks in many categories are continuing to grow.

Not exact matches

The New York Times, for example, says ebook sales fell by 10 % in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 pPublishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publisherspublishers.

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do with publishers» efforts at buffing up ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief from antitrust watchdogs.

Why are publishers putting most of their effort into designing ebooks for the iPad when Apple is only their third biggest sales channel?

As it stands, the vast majority — or 90 per cent — of publishers are indeed publishing ebooks, while about 19 per cent have made their entire libraries available in digital format.

The terms, which are undisclosed, are contingent on the outcome of Apple's appeal of an antitrust ruling that it conspired with five major publishers to make eBooks more expensive.

(Last fall, Will Sullivan offered a gaggle of reasons ebooks make sense for publishers.)

It's not easy to find a major publisher who is willing to get your novel out there but why leave your writing career in the hands of others when you can get your own ebook out there yourself.

And a bit of good news: My publisher just put everything on sale so you can grab my first book «Jesus Feminist «for just $ 3.99 ebook edition or $ 9.41 in the paperback.

I don't think the publisher has plans for an ebook as of yet, but we will definitely announce it if it's ever in the works.

We are the only major society publisher of print and ebooks in the chemical sciences, and our comprehensive collection provides in - depth, up - to - date coverage across the breadth of the subject.

But the main thing is that the price for an ebook wouldn't be significantly less, since almost all of the price is due to the extortionate copyright fees the publisher had to pay to the journals for permission to reprint.

Simon Heong, the publisher of the first compilation ebook of «dating gurus» 28 Surefire Ways For Instant Dating Success, evaluates 12 Simple Rules as «hands down, one of the best resources out there».

If you want to learn more about the future of educational publishers, download the free eBook To Be, Or Not To Be?

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Is the purpose of self - publishing ebooks really to snag a traditional publisher, at which time your royalties will subsequently plummet?

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

I can tell you that the vast majority of the major publishers» nonfiction I've purchased in eBook format does use (modified) paragraph indents rather than block style.

As a small publisher, I have constraints as well — from a pure resource - effort point of view, ebooks are extremely simple from the physical point of view, and with regards to print - titles, we have chosen the more expensive, quality - oriented path, and yet we are still making money out of it.

David lives at the intersection of technology and publishing by helping companies, associations and publishers navigate and profit from the eBook revolution and content marketing.

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.

Founded in 2006 in Adelaide, South Australia, DoctorZed Publishing is an independent publisher of print books, ebooks and audiobooks.

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.

One of the banes of the indie author has been making the text of our ebooks look like that of traditional publishers.

Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.

I agree that if the publisher has already published the print book, the cost of creating an ebook is greatly reduced.

It recently estimated that traditional publisher reporting is, «now missing two - thirds of U.S. consumer ebook purchases, and nearly half of all ebook dollars those consumers spend.»

I frigging love the idea of 25 % ebook royalties that work out to be more like an effective 12.5 %, and I literally dance in the streets at the thought that all big publisher ebooks should cost $ 12 - $ 20.

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.

Apple instead let publishers set their own prices for ebooks on the iPad — as long as those prices were the lowest offered on any platform — and then took a 30 % cut of revenue.

Last week, for the first time ever, a major author — or, in many minds (as though it's a matter of opinion), THE world - premiere author of the # 1 best - selling series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling — has decided (with her publisher) to release the ebooks directly.

The publishers said they will «use a formula based on the number of states participating and the number of eBooks sold in each state» to determine amounts due, but did not specify how consumers will be reimbursed — by check, a discount on future purchases, or some other mechanism.

«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.»

Publishers fearing a stagnating book market in the U.S. and UK can take heart that ebooks and e-commerce off access to an enormous worldwide market of English speakers and English learners.

Publishers may offer ebooks at a discount with an annual subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled Publishers may offer ebooks at a discount with an annual subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled discounts.

Each one of them, with its own features and strengths, offers publishers a great way to move to a more hands - on and customised phase in their ebook strategies.

What, other than conversion, is the publisher doing for the author regarding the ebook that justifies them taking such a huge chunk of the royalties?

Forty - three per cent plan to start their ebook sales this year with most looking to kick off in the next few months, according to a pre-Christmas survey of Australian booksellers conducted by Bookseller + Publisher.

Its features look similar to those of «open» publishers, like Create Space, Kindle, Smashwords, and others (including Nook ebooks).

eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak — For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.

Gemstar tried to launch them in Europe too, beginning with Germany, while buying 00h00, a French publisher of ebooks, in September 2000.

Larger publishers may wish to use this feature to offer previews and samples of commercially available print and ebooks.

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.

My post was about the high prices libraries pay for ebooks from the «Big 6» publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books from most of those publishers.