So if I decided to
produce an ebook edition of Happy Tabby, and planned to sell it through Amazon, for example, I'd have to use up another one of my ISBNs.
Not exact matches
He's been quoted R9000 (about $ 1000) by an
ebook - only self - publishing company, but was also keen to
produce a paperback
edition.
Therefore, «due to the fact that any experienced designer will start with a fully formatted print
edition produced in InDesign» may be true but any experienced
Ebook developer will get out of InDesign ASAP.
At a host of online sites, a writer can find and hire talented freelance help to
produce great book covers, to design and lay out her print
edition, and to format her
ebooks (which she can also learn to do easily for herself).
In order for publishers to release more
ebooks, however, they have to be able to take a calculated risk, something they can not do — despite the vastly lesser cost of
producing an
ebook over a print
edition — unless they believe that readers will come through and buy
ebooks.
I think publishers have been trying hard to convince them otherwise, by regularly pricing
ebooks as much as or in some cases more than paper
editions — so yeah, maybe these extended sales might «undervalue» titles to the extent that they remind people that they've been slowly brainwashed over time to expect to pay the same or more for «products» that are cheaper to
produce.
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Ebook Editions
Why not
produce an
ebook and print
edition of your book, and thereby cover both markets?
Amazon has developed three separate and distinct publishing options under its logo: Kindle Direct Publishing is the
ebook - only indie publishing division, CreateSpace
produces self - published print
editions of books and makes them available for purchase through Amazon.com, and Amazon Publishing is the more traditional agent submission - only imprint.
Some of the surprising numbers included the number of publishers who have no plans to
produce ebooks at any time in the future, the very slight differences in total sales among the various top - name
ebook distribution channels, and the startlingly high number of publishers who plan to release the majority of their titles in both print and digital
editions.
Part of readers» refusal to spend the same money for an
eBook edition stems from readers» awareness that it costs less to
produce eBooks than print books.
There are a number of compelling reasons why a business or publisher might want to use CreateSpace publishing to
produce a print - on - demand (POD)
edition of their
eBook: By most estimates print books are still 50 - 80 % of the market.
As
ebooks become more complex to
produce, publishers could start to limit the number of
editions they support, making it harder for minority platforms to compete for top titles.
When
producing both a print and
ebook edition, always keep in mind how you'll ensure that both
editions have the same final text if you're using InDesign to
produce the print
edition.
I've no idea what COGS means, but Steve is correct: many of the costs involved in
producing a print
edition are replicated in
ebooks plus the costs of
producing different versions for different platforms and testing them.
We handle conversion of
eBooks should you decide later to
produce a print
edition.
Bowker and DCL representatives said the intent of the new Bowker
eBook Conversion Service is to «streamline the process» by which entrepreneurial authors
produce ebooks, providing them not only with high quality format conversions of their work but also with ISBN identifiers for each formatted
edition of a book.