Sentences with phrase «of traditional ebooks»

For readers of traditional ebooks, this is overkill — 8 GB of storage can already hold thousands of titles.

This is a great statement because it emphasizes how we're witnessing the death throes of the traditional eBook.

Nothing to write home about,» he said dismissively of a traditional ebook.

Not exact matches

While some people thought that eBooks would drive traditional textbooks out of universities, they are still the primary information resource for college classes.

Finally, remember also that if your eBook takes off and sells thousands of copies, this will make your next book much more desirable for the traditional publishing houses.

«I recommend this eBook to anyone looking to repair and maintain their health and for those wanting to embrace the value of traditional food sources «Upon opening «The Gelatin Secret,» I was excited to get my hands on some new recipes and a few new ideas of how gelatin might be useful.

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Now, schools can make the best of both worlds, as technology has spearheaded collaborations between more traditional resources, for example, books have developed into ebooks and the textbook has become digitised.

In the free eBook Building Effective Customer Education Programs you'll have a look at the basic tenets of customer training, you'll learn 4 traditional training methods that companies use today, and you'll explore ways to supplement them with online courses to create more effective customer training programs.

Writing an eBook can be a great way to generate impressive amounts of passive income as they are much more popular than traditional books in certain areas.

At the time, any stance that even remotely suggested traditional publishing wasn't actually on its death bed, or that ebooks weren't going to be as transformational as digital music or, god forbid, that maybe the iPad wasn't the publishing savior every tech fetishist insisted it would be — any sense of optimism that the industry could survive, maybe even thrive, was met with scorn and snark.

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

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.

This webinar will show you how you can easily format a professionally designed paperback and ebook, and how Publi will do the rest at a fraction of the cost of a traditional self - publishing package.

These libraries also commit to support student learning through programming that develops their language, reading, and critical thinking; provide digital resources, such as eBooks and online collections of traditional media; and provide broadband connectivity and wireless access within library facilities.

The majority of new authors now completely bypass «traditional» publishing and go straight to digital with ebooks.

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

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 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.»

With traditional library lending, the library buys a certain number of eBook copies of a particular title.

Other recent developments in the POD / self - publishing space include Amazon's merger of Booksurge and CreateSpace; Lulu's adding 200,000 eBooks from traditional publishers to their platform; and Andrew Sullivan is self - publishing a book via Blurb.

What is apparently falling are the limited selection of overpriced ebooks saddled with DRM that most «traditional» publishers put out.

Something that I've noticed a lot of while prowling around BN looking for free books (I make a weekly sweep), is that the traditional publishers often offer «sneak peeks» of full length ebooks for free.

Ebooks from traditional publishers have DRM and can't be converted — I know this because I tried converting some of MY old Fictionwise files and was informed it wasn't doable.

However, ebook sales overall are still robust when you take into account the 30 % of ebooks that do not have an ISBN number, and therefore do not show up in any of the traditional measures of ebook sales, as clearly documented on authorearnings.com.

I believe hitting this agency crap on that level would burn it for good and free ebooks from this nonsense of them being a service as well as create the second hand market that serviced those who were unable to afford traditional books in the past.

Join those of us who are tired of being dictated to by a few large traditional publishers, snobbish reviewers, and uninformed columnists, and buy ebooks published by real people for real people — Indie Authors.

Projects like Hugh Howey's Author Earnings are already maximizing on the available information to help authors make sound decisions concerning publishing route, ebook pricing, and more, but traditional publishers are also slowly coming along in terms of looking at all the possible pieces of information surrounding a book or author, and using that information to drive consumer engagement.

While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging prices of ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work from new writers at a fraction of the cost.

Digital watermarking technology caught on a few years ago when the entire Harry Potter eBook collection adopted it, instead of going the traditional DRM route.

eBooks as a viable source of industry revenue for both traditional publishing and indie has been called into question in the past, especially given the fact that critics love to indicate the plateau that ebooks seem to have hit with reeBooks as a viable source of industry revenue for both traditional publishing and indie has been called into question in the past, especially given the fact that critics love to indicate the plateau that ebooks seem to have hit with reebooks seem to have hit with readers.

This session, moderated by Mark Coker of Smashwords, will feature a blue ribbon panel of ebook industry experts who will provide attendees diverse opinions on a wide range of ebook industry trends and issues, including DRM, reading device trends, consumer awareness and consumer marketing trends, ebook self - publishing, how Amazon's digital self - publishing offerings might upset the balance of power in traditional print publishing, digital ink technologies, and more.

Mr. Gimenez said that he likes both since traditional paperbacks hold that original magical feeling of a text, while ebooks are easier to travel with.

that Hugh»... achieved a feat few traditional authors have... inked a print - only contract with major publishers and retained the electronic rights to his own books (meaning all of his Amazon ebook sales are still his own).»

A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking came on the self - publishing scene with several YA ebooks priced at 99 cents (for book 1s) and $ 2.99 (for subsequent books) and had legendary sales that led to a legendary two - million - dollar traditional publishing deal.

While unabashedly geared for the «prepublished» ebook author of speculative fiction, much of the advice crosses genre boundaries and proves useful to writers aiming for traditional print markets, as well.

-- The most frequently nominated format for works published in the previous year is a print book by a traditional publisher (44 per cent of authors), followed by an eBook by a traditional publisher (34.3 per cent).

(look up and verify) Scoff if you want, but I believe the big war machine is slowly churning to catch up with the times, as evidenced by the number of traditionally published books in Bookbub and the lower ebook prices of traditional titles.

Some of the ebook decline we're seeing may be attributable to higher ebook prices from traditional publishers, as well as rapidly falling Nook sales.

My tentative conclusions are these: 1) ebooks are «leveling» the playing field for female authors since, for the first time in publishing history, authors do not have to wait for the largesse or permission from publishers to get our books into the hands of readers, and traditional publishing has always favored males (to date).

Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self - publishing several of his unpublished novels in ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own than with a traditional publisher, became indie publishing's most vocal champion.

However, as publishers make a grab for perpetual e-rights, etc., and as they screw up publishing of ebooks, I then wonder if I want to hold off on traditional publishing until I see how things settle out in terms of authors keeping or getting back rights.

Joe, being a mid-list author, has a lot of traditional credits to his name, so that helps to fuel eBook sales.

One of the most startling findings is that for traditional publishers, 48 % of their sales are online in the form of either audiobooks or ebooks.

(Source: The collective insanity of the publishing industry — Gene Doucette) Traditional publishers are desperately fighting to maintain an economic model that in the world of ebooks, digital access and independent -LSB-...]

These ebooks feature two - page spreads and page - turn animations in the iPad and Kindle Fire to give you the experience of reading a traditional print book.

AuthorImprints Services: eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting About the book: Living Wisdom of the Far North: Tales and Legends from Chukotka and Alaska compiles several traditional oral stories of the aboriginal peoples of the Russian and North American Far North and includes two new literary stories created in the spirit of those traditions.

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.

I'm going to try a parallel launch of two titles, one an ebook and one traditional.