Once big corporate publishers got control
over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.
Not exact matches
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He is the
Author of «How To Sell Better Than Amazon» as well as
over a dozen other
Ebooks and webinars.
Wayne Hobson is the
author of the
ebook, Suffer the Little Children: Understanding and Overcoming Spiritual Abuse and has been in ministry for
over 25 years.
Kelly Bartlett is the
author of Encouraging Words For Kids, a new
ebook with
over 150 examples of things to say to inspire a child's confidence.
For 5 days only, 27 prominent Healthy Living
authors have joined together to bundle 34 of their most popular
eBooks, valued at just
over $ 300, for the incredibly low price of $ 29.
This comprehensive 350 page
ebook consists of materials and information collected
over the 25 year history that the
author has been in practice using Natural Medicine.
He is the
author of the bestselling
ebook, The Truth about Six Pack Abs — which has sold
over 1 million copies in several languages, as well as the best - sellers The Fat Burning Kitchen, Do This, Burn Fat: 101 Sneaky Fat Loss Tricks, and The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging.
They are the world's largest
ebook distributor for self - published
ebook authors and have published more than 420,000 titles by
over 120,000
authors and small independent presses.
We've designed
over 800
ebook covers for published Smashwords and Amazon
authors.
There are three times as many ereader devices now than just a single year ago, and Amazon has just announced that their own
eBooks now have eight
authors selling
over a million
eBooks.
2009: Lulu adds
over 200,000
eBooks to its catalog and sees more and more traditionally published
authors such as John Edgar Wideman turn to Lulu.
It allows indie
authors to distribute their
eBooks all
over the world.
Privately held Smashwords operates the world's leading
eBook publishing and distribution platform serving
over 40,000
authors, publishers and literary agents who distribute
over 125,000
eBooks with Smashwords.
Penguin,
over the last few years, has been very resistant to the entire concept of free borrowing, citing in the past «free
ebook borrowing devalues the book and the
author.»
But readers were all
over those early 99 - cent
ebooks because they were such a bargain, and numerous self - published
authors leaped to the tops of the bestseller lists.
As e-reader sales begin to increase this holiday season — an estimated 24.5 million units sold according to IMS Research, which is expected to double
eBook sales year
over year according to the Association of American Publishers —
authors have a great opportunity to capitalize on current reader trends and increase visibility for their works to new audiences.
Amazon mentioned in an earlier press release that five fiction
authors, Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts, have sold
over 500,000 Kindle
eBooks each.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their
author page on XinXii - without
author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover, price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their
eBook through their
author page on XinXii and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all
over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on
eBooks
With the skills learned freelancing and lots of playing with Photoshop
over the last 10 years, I want to design beautiful covers for indie
authors for their
ebooks and print books.
This new functionality is the latest in a string of enhanced
eBook offerings designed to provide
authors with more flexibility and control
over their works.
If the print publisher has the copyright
over the print publication, partly because you let it do so as part of the deal that they «put it together» for you, and has also registered the print ISBN in their name, this does not stop you making an
eBook (so long as it does not use the creative design work of the print book) and registering the second and future ISBNs in your own name as
author — as you should have done anyway.
I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established
authors from publishing houses still sell their
ebooks at
over 5 times that price in most cases.
And first a disclaimer: My debut will be 9.99 in
ebook form (something I have no control
over as the
author) so that does color my perspective a bit.
But as
ebook readers become more sophisticated, it's not unimaginable that more
authors will prefer their versatility
over a stack of dead trees.
While the platform tends to be a third, fourth or fifth option for some
authors, this will change
over time as the
ebook market matures internationally.
Booktrack is a service that promises to give self - published
authors the control
over adding a soundtrack to their
ebooks.
Secure -
eBook Complete Solution has Launched
Over the last three years, since the launch of Secure -
eBook, hundreds of
authors and publishers have been using Secure -
eBook to sell their
eBooks.
Also Self - E claims «
Over 50 percent of all library users go on to purchase
ebooks by an
author they were introduced to in the library.»
He's sold
over 130,000
ebooks since coming on the scene a few years ago, and he's collaborated with more
authors than Lindsay can count without taking off her shoes.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware One of the effects of the phenomenal growth of
ebooks over the past few years has been to bring new value to the backlist — both for publishers who hold the contracts for backlist books, and
authors who wa... -LSB-...]
Ebooks are great for everybody except
authors because there is no control
over the real sales figures And this situation goes on forever since there is no out of print for a digital book.
While there was some anger from the indie publishing community at the thought that self - published
authors would lose the control
over their books that makes them independent in the first place, the number of
authors who signed up caused the number of borrowable
ebooks to skyrocket.
Bookeen's bookstore exclusively stocks French
ebooks and they have
over 300,000 free and ones written by bestselling
authors.
There has been a lot of discussion and speculation
over the years as to what constitutes the right price for an
ebook, especially one by a self - published
author.
He's not an established
author, but he used our platform to release this beautiful
ebook which has sold
over $ 20,000 worth in the first five days of our launch.
One New York Times bestselling
author and long - time client of the Knight Agency, Cecil Murphey, has eleven out - of - print backlist titles from
over twenty years ago that his agent is now working on bringing to
ebook.
Despite its position as one of the smaller
ebook aggregators, XinXii already hosts a catalog of
over 25,000
ebook titles from more than 15,000
authors, with new content being added to the collection daily.
Plume, the division of Penguin who has published O'Donohue's other titles, is releasing Streak of Lightning as a stand - alone
ebook - only title, a short, fun read to tide fans
over until the
author's next full - length mystery novel in the series is released mid-fall of this year.
Move
over,
ebook authors, there's a new bestselling
author to watch out for.
Of course, much of the data is talking about
ebooks over print sales, but as Walsh's assessment from AuthorEarnings shows, print book revenue for the actual
author is nothing compared to their digital income.
Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in
eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their
authors over with royalties an never give advances.
Jeanette is not just the
author of today's book, When It's Right (reviewed here), but also one of the books on my Best
Ebook Romances of the Year list
over at Library Journal, Take What You Want (reviewed earlier this year).
Click on each link below each
ebook to jump right
over to the
author's page and start downloading.
So, I created this FREE online
ebook making tool to help indie
authors save some money and have more control
over their publishing.
Add to that, look at how many releases the
author has; if there's only one or two they're either just starting out or they're a flash in the pan that gave up because it started to get to hard (especially if their last release was
over a year ago) and do they have print as well as
ebook editions?
What's stunning to me so far is the outrage by
authors over tchnology development — when they've chosen to hitch their professional lives to the fickle fate of
ebooks.
In a Kindle Direct Publishing newsletter,
author Hal Elrod, who has sold
over 100,000 copies of his self - published
ebook, said, «I can confidently say that the number one key to driving book sales has been securing interviews on other people's podcasts!»
As I have been experiencing, learning, teaching, and writing about on - demand self publishing
over the past decade or two [I actually started self publishing
ebooks in 1993 or 4], one area of book design has slid right past most of the new
authors.
Announcements have been made
over the course of the last two months detailing how readers can get
ebooks for their favorite devices, as well as find out a little bit about some great
authors at the same time.