Sentences with phrase «other ebook publishers like»

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Its features look similar to those of «open» publishers, like Create Space, Kindle, Smashwords, and others (including Nook ebooks).

There's A Problem I've written before about how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to ebooks: So we have large publishers seeing sales internationally that they can EASILY service at little marginal cost.

A small break came in the impasse when other groups besides publishers and aggregators began making ebooks available to libraries, like authors, author groups, agents, booksellers, and smaller publishers.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

If you've written an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

Some of the specific tactics that publishers and authors have tried in order to reduce ebook piracy have included DRM restrictions, which limit content to one specific device platform and eliminate the ability to share beloved books with fellow readers, and other professional tactics like the watermark that the Harry Potter ebooks contain, theoretically pointing out which reader posted them on file sharing sites.

Starting in 2008, e-books sales accounted for just 2 per cent of the US book retail market but rose steeply to about 10 per cent last year, said Mark Tanner, Google eBooks representative in Australia, who like Mr Neil and others, is forging links between his company and local publishers.

Apart from Amazon, which the majority of self - publishers are using to self - publish a book, there are other platforms like Smashwords which make sure an ebook is published in various other ebook stores.

While some publishers have noticed a leveling out on their digital sales, especially following circumstances like the hype over a particular ebook decreasing and causing a resulting minor drop in digital sales, others are still reporting record increases in revenue from digital publishing.

However, like many others, I also find it surprising that publishers still have this attitude to Ebooks.

In additional to informational articles like this one on the ISBN for Canadian publishers, AuthorImprints provides eBook conversion, print book design and online marketing services to authors and publishers located in Canada and other foreign countries.

Simply put, DRM lets authors and publishers, like you, control the way in which digital content, such as ebooks, can be used by others (typically, customers).

Like you, Jim, I hope any ebooks I do (hopefully in the near future), will also benefit my current publishers where readers might want to find other books I've written.

Some publishers like Amazon and Smashwords will provide one when the ebook is published, while other publishers will require an author to obtain one (which also involves a cost).

In a post the other day about bargain prices for a couple of Elizabeth Peters ebooks in the Kindle Store, I made the point that readers may actually be able to influence publisher pricing behavior when we jump on bargain prices like those mentioned in the post, even while the Kindle bestseller list shows some signs that Kindle owners are accepting agency - model pricing:

Like others have said I'd much rather buy the monthly bundle from Baen and try other ebooks from independent publishers and self - publishers then overpay for a book I'm probably not going to enjoy anyway.

-LSB-...] If you want to sell an eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big of a percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale of your eBook.

Libraries can easily ingest and offer various digital content, like local content (eBooks, music, videos, local history, self - published, etc.) or content from other publishers.

Nathan, you have underscored what I'm hearing from other sources about the loss of income in ebooks, especially for a publisher like me accustomed to 50 % direct sales to readers.

Like the others, it was originally posted on Joel Friedlander's wonderful resource for indie publishers, TheBookDesigner.com Over the last couple of months, I've been talking about just what an ebook is, and four basic methods for creating them.

Loaded with resources linking you from the history of the first e-book ever launched to the latest e-book reading gadgets you could get your hands on, it hooks you up with the latest titles in the web in various genres through its ebooks publisher like us and others — Smashwords, etc..

By other accounts, which try to shine light on ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.

I do have manga ebooks that I've purchased from other publishers (like seven seas you mentioned above, I'm sorry they treated you so poorly).