Sentences with phrase «publishers over ebook»

In the wake of the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and book publishers over ebook pricing, Amazon is in a renewed position of strength.

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Unfortunately, the switch to digital also carries with it a built - in flaw, which is that subscribers expect to read digital at a lower price — hence a lot of the argument between booksellers and publishers over ebook pricing — and advertisers expect to pay less for digital ad space.

Not exact matches

My own Canadian publisher, Penguin, has been fighting with Amazon over ebook pricing and generally trying to resist the digital revolution completely.

Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world's most successful travel publisher, printing over 120 million books in eleven different languages, along with guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet.

Our catalog includes over 18,000 publishers with print books, eBooks, online educational databases, audiobooks, video resources, makerspace materials, and more.

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

Traditional publishers do this all over the place with ebooks (and they don't always indicate that what you're getting is a sample in their description).

Major publishers are announcing they will make over $ 250 million in free eBooks available to low - income students.

The world's largest online retailer and the huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for eBook sales.

And even online, with library eBooks, publishers may --- again over time — prefer to revise and enhance only certain formats selectively, so that eBooks which started out identical do not remain so in the longer term.

Publishers may --- over time — prefer to revise and enhance only certain formats selectively, so that eBooks which started out identical do not remain so in the longer term.

From their website: «Over the years, Impelsys has developed successful ebook strategies for a number of leading publishers worldwide.

Oyster is one of the bright spots, offering 500,000 eBook titles and has established relationships with over 1,600 distinguished publisher partners.

eBook sales are down across the board, due to fact that publishers have more control over the pricing and have driven the prices up.

Once big corporate publishers got control over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.

Over the course of our interview, we check out the growth of 3M, how the company handles ebook discovery, and talk about its relationships with major publishers in the trial programs in New York.

One of her big accomplishments was getting several of the top six publishers to loan out their ebooks to libraries all over the USA.

When ebook subscription - based reading was a new concept over four years ago, the idea seemed to intrigue readers while failing to entice publishers.

While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging prices of ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work from new writers at a fraction of the cost.

«I wouldn't say that the ebook dream is over but people are clearly making decisions on when they want to spend time with their screens,» says Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers Association, which published its annual yearbook on Thursday.

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.

3M has created a new way for consortiums all over the USA to buy ebooks, from any publisher.

Publisher's Weekly caught up with American Library Association president Molly Raphael at the recent Public Library Association conference in Philadelphia to find out the latest state of affairs over ebook lending from public libraries.

Amazon.com achieves over 10 Million downloads in one year — placing the company as the world's largest publisher of free eBooks.

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.

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

The publishers accused of conspiring to fix ebook prices — Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Group (USA) Inc, Macmillan and CBS - owned Simon & Schuster (ZDNet is also owned by CBS)-- agreed to pay over $ 160 million in settlemenpublishers accused of conspiring to fix ebook prices — Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Group (USA) Inc, Macmillan and CBS - owned Simon & Schuster (ZDNet is also owned by CBS)-- agreed to pay over $ 160 million in settlemenPublishers, Penguin Group (USA) Inc, Macmillan and CBS - owned Simon & Schuster (ZDNet is also owned by CBS)-- agreed to pay over $ 160 million in settlement charges.

Last week, Amazon stopped selling ebooks by the Independent Publishers Group because the IPG wouldn't agree to their terms — Amazon ebook terms are notoriously one - sided, which is natural for a company with market share easily over 60 %.

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.

2 min readThe eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).

By sticking to this loss - making practice, to create a perception amongst eBook buyers that they should not have to pay more than $ 9.99 for an eBook, and to thereby, over time, force publishers to drop their retail prices for eBooks.

Since then, she's published her earnings on her blog (she made over $ 250,000 in 2015) and taken on an agent and a publisher for a print - only deal (she kept her ebook rights).

What I mean is that publishers may be agitated over ebook distribution — mainly about price control — but they don't have an issue with the platform.

Secondly, we can be sure that eBook sales are rising at an amazing rate — according to the Guardian, citing The Publisher's Association, over 300 percent per year since 2010, and print is declining, except in parts of the world where eBooks have yet to make inroads.

It's a surprising finding, in part because desktops aren't the most enjoyable nor convenient device for reading ebooks, and partly because most ebook publishers and retailers have prioritized mobile, ereader and tablet reading experiences over the desktop.

Digital royalties have been one of the major sticking points in the debate over traditional vs. self - publishing, with many people (even from the traditional publishing world) arguing that big publishers should raise digital royalties on ebooks to at least 50 percent.

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.

Cader had neatly set up Data Guy's session for DBW's morning mainstage presentation, going over the three statistical programs traditionally used to try to track a publishing business we can't see very clearly: the Association of American Publishers» reports, Nielsen's BookScan (print), and the PubTrack Digital (ebooks, also Nielsen).

As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold through most major ebook retail outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the price range of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.

One last fact: Even after the price - fixing issue called «agency pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other ebook channel that comes online between now and forever, whatever price they want for an ebook.

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-...]

As a publisher that sells over 25,000 ebook titles through Sony Stores worldwide, I can categorically say that the statement above is not true.

Since those publishers were forced to abandon the «agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty percent.

The aspect of putting direct control over the price of eBooks into the hands of the publishers, both large and small is ground breaking.

Auryn, the most award - winning children's ebook publisher and the brain child of Academy award - winning visual effects designers, ahs launched four new titles, just in time to grab students» attention and engage them in self - selected reading over the summer months.

Many publishers colluded with Apple when it launched iBooks to create a uniform ebook pricing structure to disrupt Amazon's complete dominance over the industry.

This marks a growth over the 7.8 percent that ebooks made for the publisher's total sales in 2012.

There were even concerns that the ALA Midwinter conference might see some organized and heated protests by members in the exhibit hall where these publishers have set up booths, but several spoke about the futility of letting feelings over eBook lending become hostile.