I haven't used KDP yet, but I see you can upload new versions
of older eBooks.
Open Road acquires 15 - year -
old ebook publisher E-Reads — This is a pretty interesting alliance, actually, between a digital publisher co-founded by former Harper Collins CEO Jane Friedman and one headed by literary agent Richard Curtis.
While I haven't been doing this, colleagues have been avoiding this issue of not knowing how to read something a couple years later by stripping the DRM; meanwhile, I've been finding
old ebooks on disk and have no clue where it came from, no idea what reader to use, and no clue what DRM it uses.
Exporting to epub from InDesign gives you a ePub 3.0 validated file, but remember I've had problems with that on
older ebook models.
Tesco adds to its current digital offerings with the five - year -
old ebook company, since it already has major stakeholdings in the Netflix - like streaming service blinkbox, as well as owns outright an internet radio service.
This is a valid concern, but do not forget, that eBooks are very easy to make, and account for a large percentage of residual income, as it is easier to track a
discounted older ebook, then it is a second hand book found at a used book store.
And as a New Market Pioneer, Hachette should price my two - year -
old ebook more competitively than $ 6.99.
If you have
an old ebook cover that no longer meets current Smashwords / Amazon specs we'll enlarge it to 1600px x 2400px.
Yes, at this time I'm planning to leave
my old ebooks at Smashwords and just upload directly with new ones.
The problem is that many of
those older ebook readers are still in use.
One of
the older ebook formats still in play is Microsoft's Reader format, and of course, there's a Windows client for that.
An announcement today shared that
the oldest ebook publisher and the largest independent ebook publisher have now joined forces to combine their catalogs of high - interest and genre specific titles from some of the most well - known authors in their fields.
Aldiko Book Reader is one of
the older eBook reader apps.
Only the newer version of it and didn't have an audio upgrade option, so you had to have already owned
the older ebook, I guess.
PocketBook is another one of
the older eBook reader apps.
I've also had this confirmed again when I offered free copies of some of
my older eBooks, in the hopes of getting better ranking and some reviews.
All the ebooks usually can be converted, when you find your ebook can't be converted, you can backup
the old ebook first, then download this ebook again via Adobe Digital Editions (or Kindle).
All old ebook readers accept epub 2 format, and most new readers take in epub 3: the format of interactive, fixed - layout books.
My conclusion was that the kind of work my team does every day, such as cleaning up
old ebooks, figuring out how to update the backlist, recovering from our own previous bad practices, is common across the industry.
Adobe's pet format — the Portable Document Format or PDF is one of
the oldest eBook formats and the most used.
Many authors upload dummy files or
old eBooks to get the product page.
Yet it's also possible you'll run into problems trying to borrow
an older ebook — such as Neil Gaiman's «Anansi Boys,» published in 2005 — because of lending - limit restrictions.
The solution is delete
the old ebooks from Kindle folder, then download it again via the new updated Kindle.
Since ebooks don't have to be marketed to vendors (all ebook outlets will accept
any old ebook you want to toss their way as long as it's formatted properly), the ad budget needs to go where it should have been going all along: to introduce the book to prospective readers.
But if you're upgrading from
an older ebook reader, or just buying one for the first time, the new Paperwhite is a no - brainer.
The takeaways from these speakers will set you apart from the thousands of authors who throw
any old eBook up on the Internet.
Why not recycle
the old ebook reader... for cash.
Not only that, any time you want, you can blog another ebook, thus building more platform and more sales for
the old ebook at the same time.
pdb, it's
an older ebook format that is similar to mobi, and I still had a few hanging out.
I got it earlier this year and it's been awesome (particularly since
my old ebook reader only held about 6 - 10 books at a time).
Now I'm impatiently waiting for the email to access
the older ebooks and October for the new book.