Sentences with phrase «of the ebook retailers sell»

In addition, none of the eBook retailers sell PDFs, so fixed layout eBook files offer the best sales opportunities.

Not exact matches

Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new ebook releases at the wholesale price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.

Stay tuned — we're actively exploring many more features, including providing easy access to retail distribution channels with the goal of enabling Lulu authors to sell eBooks in every online marketplace.

«This is an industry wide issue impacting retailers that sell self - published ebooks due to the explosion of self - publishing, which in the main is good as it gives new authors the opportunity to get their content published.»

Authors, writers, publishers of eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major eBook retailers - we convert eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on eBooks

At the beginning of the publishing - process, we'll ask you if you want to sell your eBook on your XinXii - authorpage only, or if you want us to distribute your eBook on the major eBook retailers as well - and if yes, on which one (s).

No, the book can not be clawed back, much in the same way that once a library purchases a print book, the publisher can't take it back, of if you sell an ebook at an ebook retailer, you can't take the book from customers who purchased it even if you later remove the book from the retailer.

In July 2010, Amazon — who was already the world's largest book retailer — reported that they sold more ebooks than hardcovers during the second quarter of the year.

Think of Tolino as the Nook of Germany, but instead of only BarnesandNoble.com selling ebooks for Nook, ebook retailers like Der Club, Hugen, Weldbild, Thalia, etc. all sell ebooks for Tolino devices.

As the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks, Smashwords lets you bypass having to deal with multiple author platforms by letting you upload your book and immediately start selling at more than 20 ebook retailers.

The company selling the eBook to the end user is an «agent» of the retailer who receives a commission on the sale.

For eBooks sold via the wider network, the commission charged by the online retailers will be deducted prior to calculation of your Author Earnings.

You can also download our handy new eBook Distribution Guidelines that'll save you lots of headaches when it comes time to sell through other retail channels.

Ebooks sold through Gardners will earn authors 60 percent of the list price after VAT — the same rate Smashwords authors earn on books sold at iBooks and other major retailers.

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

Five years later: we've published well over 200 ebooks, we've incorporated, we've doubled our membership, our ebooks are in libraries worldwide, sold by nearly one hundred retailers worldwide, and we've just sold the audio rights to over one hundred of our books.

of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

If Amazon / ebook retailers are your primary sales platform (and they are, unless you are a professional speaker or planning to sell thousands of copies at events) you need to design for Amazon.

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.

With eBooks accounting for 30 - 35 % of all book sales in the U.S., and with more than 60 % of all units (print and eBook) being sold via an online retailer, it's become increasingly easy to create a digital book and toss it into the marketplace, without the need for a physical product or a third - party publisher.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

The CEO of Kobo, Michael Tamblyn, spoke at the The Economist's Canada Summit and proclaimed that 1 in 5 books sold in Canada is an eBook, in some categories it's 1 in 3 or higher and Kobo is the largest retailer of digital books in Canada and one of the largest in the world and the second - largest manufacturer of e-Reading devices globally.

The online retailer is selling ebook svia its digital store Flyte, which as of now has about 100,000 titles to offer.

Mass, club, grocery, and drug retailers, who account for a lot of physical books sold, can now offer buyers the ability to buy ebooks as well.

The Holy Grail of digital publishing is the end user being able to sell the eBooks they purchased from online retailers.

If you upload your print and / or ebook to the various retail channels through their distribution process, they will take a portion of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 % of their list price on print titles sold through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).

Much like the US - based Smashwords, authors can sell their books directly from the XinXii website, as well as distribute them to the major ebook retailers, regardless of location.

Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, to school and public libraries for every ebook or hardcover book sold at retail, up to 5,000 copies.

Smashwords, who sells author content as well as distributes that content to major retailers of authors» choice, gives authors the option to sell their ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a few other retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.

In many cases, the content the riidr makes available is the same ebook that a North American customer might purchase from any number of branded retailers, like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Kobo, but in the case of the Danish translation of those works, for example, the publisher who owns those foreign rights can sell the ebooks directly to the consumers.

Companies like Le French Book and Spanish Publishers have made it possible for translations of contemporary bestsellers to be published in foreign languages and sold through major ebook retailers.

Basically what I'm asking is if I publish an ebook with you will you be owed 20 % of all future profits regardless if I sell the book through lulu.com or another online retailer?

Accusations of bullying and the exercise of market power are flying against both parties: Amazon has market power as a leading book retailer, and they are bullying Macmillan by removing their print products to keep retail ebook prices low and sell more Kindles!

To help answer this most important of questions, we have redesigned the Sell page to provide an at - a-glance summary of Lulu's distribution options, services, tools, and retail pricing examples for both print and eBooks in distribution.

And of course authors and publishers can sell books online through major retailers such as Amazon, both by uploading ebooks and by using print - on - demand or vendor programs to sell to consumers.

Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114 ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the sales of harcover and paperback books where no Kindle edition is available.

In addition to selling books at its own online store with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's iBookstore, the Sony eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.

Amazon.com accounts for more than half of all eBooks sold online, making them the largest and most powerful eBook retailer in the world.

Regarding royalties, it goes like this: Smashwords Wholesale compensation = 60 % of retail (when sold on sites other than their own) Example: if your eBook is selling for $ 7.95, the author would get $ 4.77.

BookBaby — They makes it easy to format and sell your eBook in 170 countries through many of the world's biggest retailers, including Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and more.

The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.

In the meantime, there are only so many shades of grey that ebook retailers are willing to sell.

For the next two years, Amazon and other retailers will be able to sell the publishers» ebooks at their own determination of the price, or the original «wholesale model.»

eBook retailers in 2012 made nearly half of all book purchases, beating out print retailers, at least in the US where almost 44 % of all books sold through November of that year were purchased via an online retailer.

The new ebooks are poised to sell a number of units and boost sales for major online retailers.

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or app they choose.

The story also examines the part that the Big Six have played in trying to prevent the development of ebooks, especially where maintaining a working relationship with Amazon is concerned; the authors are quick to point out that the major publishers only began their acceptance of ebooks once other options for retail ebook selling appeared.

This is because ebooks are sold under the agency model where the publisher sets the price and gets 70 % of each sale, and the retailer gets the remaining 30 %.

Sometime this year Walmart will carry the complete line of Kobo e-readers in all of retail locations and will sell audiobooks and ebooks on their website.