Sentences with phrase «points about ebooks»

Your article brings up some great points about ebooks in a more global light - how they will impact the environment and how they will get more people to read.

However, LCA was able to make some points about ebook business models that the task force took seriously.

To your point about ebook prices, I have to say, I won't pay a lot, regardless of the hype.

In this great article from Derek Murphy, he provides great clarity for sticky point about ebook formatting that many authors miss.

Great point about ebook scans!

Not exact matches

I may very well write another ebook with a lower price point about specific topics.

I point you over here, at AuthorEarnings.com, where they're talking about how there is a strong shift in ebook purchasing over to indie - published and Amazon - imprint - published ebooks.

That's a good point about YA and their typical hardcover releases affecting ebook prices.

I was pointing more to all his other caveats about self - publishing, many of which apply to ebooks as well as print.

And great point about the free samples for ebooks.

My problem with your point about best - selling ebooks is that I find it irrelevant.

We also discussed ebook pricing and the $ 2.99 price point (and J.A. Konrath) that I blogged about last month.

We want to send a message about DRM on ebooks and ebook readers that everyone will understand with just four simple points:

Publishers are seeing squeezed profit margins and they are clearly on notice about how third parties such as Amazon are controlling the perception of what pricing should be for eBooks (with their $ 9.99 price point or lower).

I am deeply concerned about the fact that many libraries are increasing their collections of ebooks to the point where a huge chunk of their collection development purchases are ebooks.

Most like, you've probably heard them go on at one point or another about the importance, power and profit margin of the eBook.

But... I'd like to use this current crisis and her point about Kobo shafting small publishers as an excuse to look at what the ebook market looks like for a self - or small publisher.

As the owner of an ebook and ereader blog that is heavily invested in research into the tablet industry, I would advise windows tablet purchasers to wait about a year before buying to give software developers and microsoft the chance to work the bugs out as well as the price to come down to the point it appeals to mainstream consumers rather than early adopters.

The brief actually went on to discuss a lesser - known point of the terms brought about by the DoJ, one which involves the ability of third party companies like Amazon or Barnes and Noble to sell ebooks through their iPad apps.

One interesting point that Breinholst made about the Scandinavian ebook market is that many digital customers take issue with some of the DRM standards that North American customers are either accustomed to or wholly unaware of.

Including this whole piece of work, which as many folks including you have observed, is about far deeper, longer range issues than tomorrow's ebook price points.

1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5) Use your ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break through.

Again, note that I'm not mad about the ebook pricing dispute, and did not take sides at any point.

I also don't know if you've been following my point about a single source controlling pricing now (Amazon) vs six publishers and two major retailers interacting (the big six plus Apple and Amazon), but I can't help believing that leaving the entire process of ebook pricing and market setting in the hands of single source is less desirable than allowing all the market players to interact.

I came up with a wonderful overview about the process of self - publishing, Guy Kawasaki's APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur), Joel Friedlander's excellent exploration of the process from a print designer's perspective, A Self - Publisher's Companion: Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, and Liz Castro's fabulous introduction to creating ebooks, EPUB Straight to the Point.

I just bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).

I can understand JC Hemphill's point, about this data being somewhate skewed in favor of indie publishing, because of the emphasis of the genre Mystery / thriller Science Fiction / Fantasy Romance, and of Amazon's ebook market.

Rather than go on about how it's essentially another version of Createspace publishing with the convenience of one dashboard for ebook and paperback books, I'll give you a point - by - point comparison of the two platforms.

When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.

Sure you can point traffic to Amazon or wherever, but let's be honest — if you want to sell the most ebooks, it will happen on Amazon, and everybody and their grandma is Twittering, blogging about their book.

There there is another, much more important point to make about all this: ebooks are a by - product of a much greater, more important enterprise: the digitisation of paper literature.

The users Quint spoke with were very excited about the merging of online journals and ebooks, but the fact that the site couldn't be utilized on a dedicated e-reader without Internet Explorer or Mozilla seemed counterproductive; the whole point of adding ebooks to the collection meant greater ease of searching and utilizing material, but the content was restricted to browser - capable viewing.

When Apple allegedly approached the publishers about switching to an agency model in order to prevent Amazon from selling ebooks at what was often below cost in order to encourage the sale of Kindle readers, Amazon lost the option to sell ebooks at its previously advertised $ 9.99 price point.

The other great thing about ebooks is that you can test your price points.

So, reality check one: The whole «eBook» thing is not just about the price - point that publishers want to charge for books.

If you're on the fence about whether or not to create an eBook, here are some important points to consider to help guide you to the right choice, before putting in the work and before writing an eBook.

I don't even know how to say what I feel about publishers at this point — part of the problem is that they insist on acting as if we are still in the 1800's — they haven't changed their business models in a long time and they really are almost clueless when it comes to looking at the future of books — I wouldn't mind paying more for an ebook or even a paper based book if the author was getting more revenue but it's not about the author at this point it's all about the publisher.

The Asus DR - 900 is one of those ebook readers that there seems to be a lot of interest for, but there's been very little information actually revealed about the device up to this point.

Paul Biba over at TeleRead pointed out the other day a post at the Wired blog by Priya Ganapati about the ugliness of eBooks.

Adam has also made some interesting points about which platform will won out pne where you use a device to download an ebook or one where you use and online service like GBS (Or Exact Editions).

(«He had a telescope in his office and pictures of his kids on the wall...») At one point Merkoski even calls his book «the true story of the ebook revolution», and there's some fun details about life inside Amazon.

Firstly his premise is mistaken, ebooks are not the disruption, merely the manifestation of the disruption (of which more below) and secondly even if we are to accept his categorization of ebooks as the disruption / sustaining innovation, he misses a key point about the nature of the trade publishing industry that undermines his argument.

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:

It not only carries cordial but pointed messages about appropriate use of copyrighted material, but it also inserts a subtle tracking code into each ebook.

Aaron, You're right about the income, depending on the price of the ebook and what p - book you're comparing it to... but the point I was trying to make wasn't about what authors can earn, but about the promotional advantage lower - priced ebooks have, given ebook enthusiasts» strong feelings about how ebooks should be priced.

I personally think the Booki.sh system would be ideally suited to an ebook rental model which would provide a point of differrence and might also address some of the concerns about buying an ebook that you can't download — if you're only renting it for a week or a month, you'll pay less and you won't be so concerned that you don't have a local copy to keep.

Glad you picked up on the point about wholesaling ebooks.

Michael... this is all about ebooks... all good points and there are SO MANY other options out there for ebook placement these days.

In my earlier post about ebook pricing, I pointed to a study that suggested the optimal range for pricing digital novels is in the $ 2 to $ 6 range.

At this point, Sony is about the only ereader company that doesn't offer an ebook reader with a frontlight, which is ironic considering they were the very first company to release an E Ink ebook reader with a built in light.