One thing Chris and I agreed on was that every big six publishing company had different terms
on selling their ebooks to the libraries.
Not exact matches
Many
libraries and consortium's did not want
to sell eBooks on their websites and resisted carrying any titles by S&S.
In essence, Library Journal can
sell our
ebooks to libraries without compensating us at all — looking very much like another corporation finding a way
to make money by stepping
on the little guy.
Today
on the show we talk about
Libraries as Retail with the Simon & Schuster mandating that libraries sell eBooks in order to carry digita
Libraries as Retail with the Simon & Schuster mandating that
libraries sell eBooks in order to carry digita
libraries sell eBooks in order
to carry digital titles.
Q: If
libraries stock up
on ebooks of a title
to meet peak demand, can they later
sell ebooks as demand eventually slackens?
@Ryan Petty Q: If
libraries stock up
on ebooks of a title
to meet peak demand, can they later
sell ebooks as demand eventually slackens?
(The local Barnes and Noble currently hands out a cheat - sheet with every Nook they
sell that gives new Nook owners the handy - dandy instructions
on how
to borrow
ebooks from the
library and read them
on their new Nook.
One of the biggest draws and
selling points of Adobe DRM - supporting ereaders, especially the Sony Readers, is that you can checkout
ebooks for free from your local
library to read
on them.
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eBooks to Libraries
Excellent ahas
on selling and getting books and
ebooks into
libraries with Amy Collins — from pricing
to how
to pitch; which distributors #authors should be with and why authors should put energy into
libraries for book marketing.
My
ebook, The Savvy Book Marketer's Guide
to Selling Your Book
to Libraries offers tips on marketing to libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in
Libraries offers tips
on marketing
to libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in
libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major
libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in
libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and
library associations in the U.S.
Leaders from top
library companies weighed in
on this issue during an hour - long discussion held before a gathering of publishers, booksellers, and librarians, aiming
to debunk lingering misunderstandings about ways in which
libraries affect retail sales of
ebooks and digital content, and
to inform publishers of new tools that have been developed
to market, manage, and even
sell digital content through
libraries.
Leading
library ebook distributor OverDrive was
sold to Rakuten
on March 19 for $ 410 million cash, more than 16 times OverDrive's annual earnings of $ 25 million.
The American
Library Association (ALA)
on Friday denounced Hachette Book Group's decision
to implement steep price increases
on its back - catalog of
ebooks sold to the
library market.
Hachette Book Group today announced that it will once again
sell its frontlist
ebook titles
to libraries, beginning
on May 8.
It costs nothing
to sell ebooks on Amazon or distribute
to bookstores and
libraries.
When my friends ask me about eReaders, one thing I point out is that Sony doesn't
sell books, so if they want
to rely
on library ebook lending, they really have
to get a Sony.