Once upon a time (2009) a bunch of Canucks formed a company with the idea of not only producing an e-reader (device) but partnering it with
a retail eBook website and a multi-platform application with powerful social media integration.
Not exact matches
Some U.K. - based
ebook retailers responded with public apologies, and WHSmith went so far as to shut down its
website altogether, releasing a statement saying that it would reopen «once all self - published
eBooks have been removed and we are totally sure that there are no offending titles available.»
Is no greater than the
eBook's List Price at any other
retailer,
website, or sales channel.
Throughout the recent controversy over inappropriate and explicit content being listed in
ebook retail websites alongside children's and middle grade titles, the same questions kept coming to the surface: how did this happen, and how do we prevent it?
After retaining the digital rights to the entire series long before
ebooks and e-readers were expected to reach their current penetration in the industry, Rowling launched her own company and
website to sell the
ebooks, brokering deals that managed to make the titles available through major online
retailers while still driving that traffic to her site.
Amid the uproar and media firestorm surrounding the recent discovery of inappropriate subject matter available in the children's digital sections of some
ebook retailers»
websites, Kobo and several other self - publishing platforms took a bold stance and blocked self - published titles from sale until a thorough review... [Read more...]
The first can be traced back to the recent scandal of inappropriate content being intentionally shelved in the children's
ebook sections of major
retail websites.
For those shoppers who plan to spend today bundled up inside and taking advantage of perks like discounts and free shipping on different
retail websites, don't forget to take a look at the Wordplay Shakespeare site, as the publisher of side - by - side translations of some of Shakespeare's best loved titles will be gifting copies of the enhanced
ebook for Macbeth in a random drawing to new subscribers to the newsletter.
Much like the US - based Smashwords, authors can sell their books directly from the XinXii
website, as well as distribute them to the major
ebook retailers, regardless of location.
While educational initiatives have put devices in place,
retail websites like Flipkart and Amazon India have introduced easy
ebook purchasing, and even major self - publishers have brought the platform to authors in India, the lack of internet connection has been blamed for disappointing results in publishing.
Following the backlash from both sides of the publishing industry last fall over the removal of so - called «offensive» content from
ebook retail websites, booksellers have become more cautious about the titles they let slip through.
This requirement of an interest age rating may have stemmed from the recent controversy surrounding explicit titles that were available — some say maliciously so, which a self - policed interest age rating may not prevent — in the children's book sections of a variety of
ebook retail websites, an issue that caused several
retailers to make sweeping deletions of book titles until the matter could be resolved.
Authors and publishers have experimented with different ways to avoid paying the royalty commission to book
retailers, opting instead to lure readers to their own
websites to make their
ebook purchases.
Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the
retail website has sold 114
ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the sales of harcover and paperback books where no Kindle edition is available.
Increase sales and exposure by distributing your
eBooks to over 350 worldwide
retailers from our
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It marks the first high profile announcement of in - store
retail availability for
ebook hardware in this part of the world, albeit on a modest scale — the iLiad will initially only be available from Dymocks» George Street store and via their
website dymocks.com.au.
You can read the novella for free here on my
website, or you can buy the
ebook at the usual
ebook retailers:
The new
ebook, The Best Writing From the Atlantic's Technology Channel, is available on the Atlantic
website for free until the end of the year, at which time it will go on sale at major
ebook retailers for $ 1.99.
Amid the uproar and media firestorm surrounding the recent discovery of inappropriate subject matter available in the children's digital sections of some
ebook retailers»
websites, Kobo and several other self - publishing platforms took a bold stance and blocked self - published titles from sale until a thorough review could be conducted.
Today, Editor in Chief Michael Kozlowski and Senior Editor Mercy Pilkington talk for an hour about the Digital Book World Conference that transpired this week and discuss the business model of
eBook Subscription
websites, how Libraries are acting as
retail... [Read more...]
Sometime this year Walmart will carry the complete line of Kobo e-readers in all of
retail locations and will sell audiobooks and
ebooks on their
website.
A spokesperson for REDgroup, which owns Whitcoulls and Borders, said more than a million
eBooks would be available for purchase on the two
retailers»
websites when the store launched in May.
From the remaining ten percent of the market that Apple shared with virtually every other
retailer except Amazon, Apple now apparently holds about 20 % of the
ebook market, according to
website MacRumors.
The UK bookseller intends on selling the Kindle branded e-readers in their
retail shops and offer
ebooks online via their
website.
The UK
retailer will also incorporate a large selection of
ebooks from Amazon on their very own
website for customers to purchase.
With the official launch of the Google
eBooks ™ Affiliate Program on June 16,
retailers, publishers, bloggers, and other
website owners can link to hundreds of thousands of titles in the Google eBookstore and earn a commission for referring sales.
Most of those tools either are directly attached to
ebook retailer websites or are attached indirectly through distributors / aggregators.
The Google
eBooks ™ Affiliate Program allows
retailers and other
website owners to link to hundreds of thousands of titles in the Google eBookstore and earn a commission for referring sales.
One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her
ebooks available exclusively through her own
website, forgoing the percentage that would have gone to the major
ebook distribution
retailers.
Last week, GoodeReader profiled the book discovery
website Libboo, a location that allows both readers and authors to find new and intriguing titles without wading through the millions of
ebooks available from
retailers» platforms.
By displaying the available
ebooks in the various publisher catalogs to patrons, as well as linking the libraries
websites to several major online book selling
retailers, libraries stand to benefit from the affiliates» program while patrons have the option to purchase
ebooks that their libraries may not offer.
Kobo has just signed a deal with
retail giant Walmart to have its
ebooks featured on the company's main Canadian
website.
I write and publish self help books and how to guides all the time, and already have a quite large range of how to books published in both pdf and Kindle downloads I have been creating
ebooks for over a decade that were sold direct from my
websites, and a few years ago I extended to writing books for sale on Amazon / Lulu / iTunes / and
retailers like Barnes & Noble.
In addition to
retailers, make your book available on your
website in both print and
ebook versions or direct them to a site like Amazon to purchase.
How
Retail Partners Participate: Sell Kobo
eBooks through your
website.
As part of their agreement with agents, the publishers will not sell
ebooks direct to consumers and the newly formed distributor will instead act as a white box company, partnering with
retailers and booksellers to sell
ebooks through their
websites.
If you have any queries or are confused in general about
ebooks — check out the rest of our
website — we have lots of information which should help you understand our services, including producing
ebooks from various digital formats, converting from printed books / manscripts, the different
ebook formats and layouts, producing Print - Ready PDFs for printed books,
website design, the different
retailers,
ebook marketing etc..
If your to - do list is long, you may wish to strike through «research
eBook conversion tools, master print formatting and apply to multiple
retailer websites to get the book on sale».
During the enrollment period, the
eBook may not be distributed anywhere else in the world — including the author's
website or blog or on sites like Smashwords, an aggregator and
eBook retailer, and the primary
eBook provider for many international consumers.
According to an article on the Dear Author
website, NYT best - selling New Adult author, Tammara Webber,
eBook did not go live on B&N store regardless of the fact that it had been available at other
retailers.
Of keen interest: This morning, Friday, as today's column moves, Campbell has published Industry response sought to explicit
ebook furor, in which we learn that the UK's Booksellers Association says «it will urgently consider an industry initiative to prevent explicit self - published
ebooks becoming available on mainstream
retailers»
websites.»
Kobo are a large
ebook retailer based in Canada who produce their own eReading devices and also sell
ebooks via their own
website.
Google designed its
ebooks service to support both a
retail and wholesale model, allowing it to sell directly to consumers as well as via booksellers»
websites.
With the recent disappearance of the Sony Reader PRS - 650 and PRS - 950 on Sony's
website and most
retailers, it is apparent that Sony is getting set to launch a new line of
ebook readers, as they tend to do in the third quarter of recent years.
Smashwords is also another
Ebook retailer and also is a one stop uploading machine, i.e. it uploads your book onto all of the aforementioned
websites (not including Amazon) and remits the royalties to you.
Find the
eBook retailer you prefer at the following book deal
websites:
E-commerce
retailer Flipkart has announced on its
website that it will stop offering
ebooks for download and it will migrate all libraries of its existing users to Kobo, starting December 17.
Easons is still offering Sony ereaders from its
website (on 2nd November) and Kobo's
ebook offering not yet live through the
retailer's
website either.
When you provide an
ebook to any distributor or
retailer, they'll need all this information for their systems and their
websites.
Google has just launched the Google
Ebooks affiliate programme, opening the door for any
website owner to become an
ebook retailer.