Sentences with phrase «out of the ebook selling»

Sony is officially getting out of the eBook selling business and has just announced the closure of their UK, Germany, Austria, and Australia Reader Stores.

Not exact matches

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She took a moment out of her busy schedule to discuss the evolutionary growth of ebooks in the library, how the discovery of content is a top priority, what it took to talk Simon & Schuster and Penguin into joining the library lending model, and how libraries are selling ebooks.

But what if it turned out that you could make more money each month by selling the ebook at 99 cents instead of the $ 6.99 or whatever you thought it was worth?

Books that may have only sold a handful of copies in the course of a year or that have been out - of - print suddenly gain new life in ebook form.

My first ebook is free right now, so no loss there, but I sell EE2 and EE3 for $ 4.95 each (although, last I checked, Amazon had price - matched one of those down to $ 3.99 based on some slow - to - update store out there).

Selling your own ebooks means that you can have more than one publisher — say, a UK and a US one — and sell on behalf of both of them, meaning that readers anywhere in the world come to one site to buy their books, and the author takes care of figuring out which publisher gets the payment from that purchase.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

And as I've said now at least four times... regardless of this copyright law, when we are out of stock per the term of our contract, we have to revert the rights when requested... no ifs ands or buts... unless we are still selling an agreed upon threshold of ebooks.

This is partly out of experimental interest to see if this improves my numbers any, and partly just because I've been hand - selling the ebook editions for five bucks each — and bringing the base price down to $ 4.99 USD is more in line with that.

I don't know of one author that we haven't reverted when the license was up, assuming we were out or low on stock and only selling minimal amounts of ebooks.

I self publish as a hobby, as I always have done, but it is becoming less and less fun now as the market has become saturated with rubbish from all forms of publishing and the techniques being used now to sell ebooks has become so intertwined with social media and spamming that any literary sense has gone out the window.

Amazon gets the library borrowers out of the library site and onto the Amazon site in order to try to sell them more ebooks.

I don't know that they'll ever come out with one that's compatible with all ebook stores until someone invents one independently of also selling books.

In March, Goodreads quietly began offering eBooks; first, a modest selection of out - of - copyright eBooks supplied by Feedbooks, then allowing authors to upload their own eBooks and, starting in May, enabling them to sell them.

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

Amazon highlighted 3 authors out of the 150 self - published authors that sold more than 100,000 eBooks in 2013.

We've rolled out our new eBook landing page (pictured below)-- your launchpad for reaching a whole new market of readers and selling more books.

I've had my ebook out for just over a week now, and have already sold enough enough copies to break even on the cost of creating the book, which is great!

One suggestion is for temporary locations to sell ebooks and a limited selection of print books to holiday shoppers who are weary of waiting for friends or family members in the holiday rush, although audiobooks and noise - cancelling headphones to block out the endless loops or recorded Christmas carols might prove to be an even bigger sell.

According to Bella Andre, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling LET ME BE THE ONE (The Sullivans # 6) and the upcoming COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER (The Sullivans # 7), due out this winter, «Cover art is one of the most crucial elements for an ebook to first, gain visibility, and second, sell well.

During this beta period, Goodreads is working with Amazon Publishing to host Kindle ebook giveaways, but once out of beta, the program will be open to any author or publisher — whoever owns the digital distribution rights for the book — who sells their ebooks on Amazon.

Though the hardcover edition of Get What's Yours is currently sold out on Amazon, it's still in stock at some other vendors; eBook and audio versions are also available.

If you want more detail on what not to do, along with a lot of belly laughs (and some cringe moments now that the cat's out of the bag on the review debacle), go buy How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated) for $ 2.99.

We have had a great deal of success in bringing out, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.

Do you have a work that's gone out of print — or that's still in print, but which the publisher wants to take 75 % for selling as an ebook?

Each Sony PRS - T1 sold actually comes with a free Harry Potter eBook now but the offer is only good in the USA and Europeans are out of luck.

But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.

eBook retailers in 2012 made nearly half of all book purchases, beating out print retailers, at least in the US where almost 44 % of all books sold through November of that year were purchased via an online retailer.

The story also examines the part that the Big Six have played in trying to prevent the development of ebooks, especially where maintaining a working relationship with Amazon is concerned; the authors are quick to point out that the major publishers only began their acceptance of ebooks once other options for retail ebook selling appeared.

Kobo thought they had another in when Google pulled out of supplying indie bookstores with digital content and Kobo picked up the contract, but bookstores weren't particularly keen on cannibalizing their own book sales to earn a few dollars for each unit sold, and a feeble commission structure for each ebook sold.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

For instance, a shoe - selling website put out a free ebook that actually had a number of useful things to say about finding and taking care of shoes, and that went into a fair bit of detail on topics that weren't otherwise well - covered in my index.

You can opt out of EAF anytime, but you can not take back ebooks you've sold.

Baen Free Library is a great place to download original, newer ebooks, and they also sell webscriptions that are worth checking out too if you are a fan of science fiction and fantasy.

Most ironically, the economics of selling digitized books (or eBooks) has taken longer to figure out than digital music (e.g. Apple's iTunes), despite the textual media being the primary language of navigation on a computer.

November 2012 — Fictionwise, who was one of the first and most successful ebook selling venues is being phased out now that Barnes and Nobles have gone all Nook all the time.

There's no shortage of companies that will help would - be authors produce, publish, and sell their ebooks, so in an indie industry that is quickly becoming flooded with startups that aim to entice indie authors of every ilk, there has to be something different brought to publishing table in order to stand out.

One of the great things about ebooks, is that they do not sell out, so you can keep your sanity amidst the boxing day ravenous hordes.

That means you sell them, in essence, the right to loan out your eBook for one year, or for a certain number of loans.

Ch 7.6 Exploiting Your Rights Most indie authors, especially when they first start out, are flummoxed by the idea of selling rights beyond the print and ebook versions of their works.

It's kind of like Amazon subbing out the Kindle store to a company — let's call them Monkey Brain Books — that sells Kindles to inner city zoologists and decides to put their brand name on the existing Kindle ebook store that's been around for years, and redo the apps to say Monkey Brain Books.

The poor sales that led to Google's pull - out happened in spite of booksellers being able to sell almost any ebook to loyal customers at an identical price to rivals.

Have you taken a moment to figure out the price point where the vast majority of eBooks are sold?

«Right now putting an ebook into Amazon and having them sell it on autopilot can get a lot more of the total market than will be the case over time as a more fully articulated and global ebook infrastructure builds out.»

Waterstones will be sending out emails to customers starting June 14th, 2016 with instructions on how to transfer accounts to Kobo in order to retain most of their ebook collection (a few books are bound not to make the transfer, as Kobo is unlikely to have the rights to every single title that Waterstones has sold over the past 5 + years).

The vast majority of ebooks are sold on Amazon, and with KDP Select, I get the most value out of the platform.

A lot of it has gone to freaking out over sales and marketing and how to sell ebooks.

And writers who sold their book to a traditional publisher for a percentage and no advance only to see the book come out in an ebook - only edition will be lucky to be displayed on the front page of the publisher's ebook website for a week.

«Scribd is one of the best book - discovery tools out there, and I'm thrilled that BookBaby authors will now be able to leverage those features to sell more eBooks,» says BookBaby president Brian Felsen.