Rakuten Kobo will use Shelfie's tech to identify reader preferences for recommendations and to
offer ebook editions of print books owned by users.
One of the most energetically expanding startups in publishing, Vancouver - based Shelfie — which began life in 2013 as BitLit Media — has some 1,400 participating publishers now in its ebook bundling scheme, which uses smart phone apps (Android and iSO) to capture the interests of print - book owners and
offer them ebook editions of those print books.
But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are
offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.
I've
offered eBook editions of both of my writing prompts workbook and journal titles using Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).
By
offering an eBook edition of your book, you have the power to reach a whole new demographic of consumers.
Not exact matches
In this
ebook I've drawn on my own real - life lessons in advocacy to
offer my best advice, and I welcome your feedback and suggestions for future
editions.
In addition, a special Father's Day promotion
offers a free sleepcover for the Arc, and Workman is
offering an exclusive Kobo
eBook edition of Jessica's Hagy's How to Be Interesting, with How to Be Interesting After You Graduate: A Digital Short as an extra chapter at the end.
By providing features to support a wide range of scenarios: give
eBooks away for free as a marketing tool, automatically link
eBook and print
editions to enhance discovery and provide more options to readers, and
offer optional copy - protection (DRM) to prevent piracy and unlicensed distribution.
There is nothing to manufacture, and I've seen plenty of authors
offer eBooks as free supplements to their print
editions.
Shelfie is a free app that gets books off the shelves by
offering free or deeply discounted
ebook editions of those print -LSB-...]
Shelfie is a free app that gets books off the shelves by
offering free or deeply discounted
ebook editions of those print books.
This
offering comes at a time when studies still demonstrate that younger readers tend to not only prefer print when reading self - selected texts, but an alarming study also showed a decrease in reading comprehension when kids were required to read digital
editions (as opposed to having selected the
ebook for themselves).
Of more use to average reading consumers is 1DollarScan's other key feature, the ability to create
ebook editions out of print titles that users already own; again, this ability to store and access the content is the real draw, as well as
offering readers the chance to save their book files in the event of pending damage.
Authors and publishers alike have experimented with bonus content in
ebook form, bundling titles, and even
offering special promotional pricing that couldn't have happened when there was a minimum profit margin that had to be maintained on an expensive print
edition.
How can these digital companies
offer the
eBook for.99 p, when the normal hardcover
edition is being sold for over $ 20.00?
With two plans to choose from — both of which cost only one euro for the first month — users can access all of the papers» archived back stories, the crosswords, the more voluminous Sunday
edition, and the occasional
ebook offer for only twelve euros a month, with an additional four euros for the premium plan that will include a digital replica of the full print
edition each day.
In fact, it's now the self - published authors who are benefiting from Amazon's Kindle Matchbook feature, which allows rights holders to
offer the
ebook at a discount of up to 100 % for readers who purchase the print
edition.
But with the variety of companies who have begun to
offer legitimate, cost effective ways of
offering readers a print
edition as well, there's no reason not to release a book simultaneously in both
ebook and print.
For
ebook reading consumers, we came across brand - new or limited
edition devices from four different companies today, including Bookeen, Imcosys, Tolio, and txtr; txrt actually spoke at length about pending plans for a subscription - based reading service, highlighting several features that their platform will
offer that the slow - to - adoption subscription reading market has lacked.
While a book layout designer may be able to create the text - based
eBook edition (and some may
offer that as an additional service), usually choosing someone who can do simple textbook formatting in a Word document will usually be less expensive.
Most
ebooks offer a substantial price reduction from the corresponding hardcover or paper
edition.
Storytel for some time now has
offered a combined service that lets customers read and listen to the same book, presumably like the Whispersync capability of
ebooks in the Kindle system: the audio rendition of a book can pick up where the user stops reading the
ebook edition.
A number of companies currently
offer digitization services that operate well within the law; companies can digitize their back data for storage, and readers can order
ebook copies of out - of - print and rare
editions.
Resurrected as an
eBook in 2013, when it once again hit the bestseller list, the book is now being
offered in a new paperback
edition.
That means an author can still
offer his
ebook on Amazon at his own terms and under his own name, as well as take full advantage of Amazon's exclusive KDP Select program and its benefits, while still
offering his print
edition through the other networks.
From our research this
eBook store
offered exclusively for customers living in Germany primarily deals in ePub formats with DRM, so make sure you get Adobe Digital
Editions installed on your computer.
Google
Editions is slated for an August release that
offers publishers and authors a platform to sell books directly from their website, having Google host the Book, Checkout process and more, seeking to change the current
Ebook distribution methodology.
One of my own interests, which Jones mentioned, has been in the pilot program that HarperCollins has conducted with Vancouver's BitLit start - up, working with Peter Hudson there to try
offering readers who own selected print books from HarperCollins a chance to get
ebook editions of those books — bundling, as it's called, and in an after - market format.
Effective January 15, 2013, Lulu will no longer
offer Adobe's Digital
Editions DRM as an option when publishing or revising
eBook content in EPUB and PDF formats.
In 2011, Penguin decided to stop
offering new
ebooks to libraries, citing «concerns about the security of digital
editions.»
Content holders can use these as promotional giveaways at speaking engagements, can bundle the
ebook editions seamlessly with the print
editions, can
offer them as incentives for signing up on their websites, and much more.
Thus I
offer print as well as
ebook editions, and now I'm getting into audiobooks as well.
Though readers say they value «knowledge» or «entertainment» or whatever a book
offers, they will rarely pay as much for an
eBook as for a print
edition.
Basic membership will be
offered as a promotional membership for readers with purchase of the forthcoming
ebook edition of Highmage's Plight.
When author service Lulu, for instance, decided to stop
offering Adobe Digital
Editions DRM as an option for
ebooks created and sold on Lulu, a firestorm ensued on the company's community forum (though Lulu books sold through Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble continue to use their respective DRM solutions).
The regular price of both the paperbook and
eBook version is $ 5.99 and the special
offer on the Kindle
edition will run only until Christmas.
There you can upload your
eBooks and
offer them alongside print
editions drawn from the millions of books in Ingram Content Group's library.
Adobe Digital
Editions software
offers an engaging way to view and manage
eBooks and other digital publications.
Adobe Digital
Editions offers a simplified, engaging way to acquire, manage, and read
eBooks and other kinds of digital publications.
I have often wondered why, if I am willing to buy a first
edition hardcover, the publisher wouldn't
offer to throw in a PDF or other
ebook.
Powell's Books, for example, has
offered Adobe Digital
Editions for a number of years and also
offers Google
eBooks in PDF format.
Bookeen develops the firmware for their
ebook readers and
offers users the option of Mobipocket compatibility or Adobe Digital
Editions compatibility (note that both can not be used at the same time; it's either or).
I
offer this service for
ebook and full print
editions that include the front, back and spine.
For your readers, it
offers them the convenience of reading either the print or
ebook edition, whenever they choose.
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offering free or deeply discounted
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ebook editions of those print books.
If you can buy a ninety - nine - cent
ebook any time, a print book should be a short -
offer, limited
edition type sale.
Amazon has been
offering a similar program through its Kindle MatchBook that enables their customers who have bought the print book to get a decent discount for the
eBook edition.
Elsevier has become the latest publisher to partner with Vancouver start - up BitLit to
offer discounted
ebook editions of a part of its book catalog.
It will be out in print and
eBook at Amazon and all the usual outlets next month but for the moment, as a special
offer to SteynOnline readers, the paperback
edition is exclusively available, personally autographed by yours truly, only from the Steyn store.