We find small errors all the time, but the main criticism
I see about ebooks is that they are poorly edited or that the author didn't pay attention to his own details.
Not exact matches
Within the first three months of its new site launch, Oren International
saw a 69 percent conversion rate for its
eBook, which targeted restaurants, and an 86 percent conversion rate on an
eBook about the environment.
Read this
eBook to learn more
about what to look for in a potential location, choosing a neighborhood, and even
see two example properties from JWB.
(Read more
about the «ecstatic hormones» in the free
ebook here, and
see the full details in Dr Buckley's Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report.)
If you want to make more of an investment, I'm a huge fan of the new Nabi 2 Tablet which is a real, functioning Android tablet — albeit one with very good parental controls and curated
eBooks, apps and videos that you can feel good
about your kids
seeing.
For more
about leveraging Facebook for political campaigns and advocacy,
see the new
ebook, «How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014».
eReader owners should bring their Kindle, Nook, iPad or other e-Device with USB cord (if applicable) to the Library (
see dates, times and locations below) to ask questions and learn firsthand
about how to borrow
eBooks from the Library catalog.
As you can
see in the post below, I am running a special on the
eBook this weekend — just $ 25 for
about 24 more hours.
If you want to
see first hand what my work is all
about, click here and I will send you my
ebook with free health tips and the recipe for my delicious Superfood Smoothie.
For more on this in detail,
see my
eBook - Eat Fat, Get Skinny where I talk in depth
about how I lost 40 lbs of baby weight and 4 sizes without counting calories, starving, or dieting, and eating LOTS of fat!
In the
ebook Your Russian bride, the shocking truth you will find a lot of amazing truths
about your future Russian wife, but also you will find a lot of revealing information
about yourself and will be able to
see your role in a successful foreign - Russian marriage.
Using a collaborative brain - storming tool called tricider, Nik asks us to contribute ideas on what we'd like to
see in an
ebook about exploiting online video in the digital classroom?
In the meantime, to know more
about the Instructional Design opportunities afforded by time, place, and context, and to
see a demonstration across 9 rich case studies, download our new free
eBook — Mobile Learning: Let's Not Phone It In!
For more tips and additional resources and information
about using centers in the mathematics and science classroom,
see the accompanying
Ebook.
Learn more
about marketing
eBooks and
see where this can take you.
Go here and you'll
see that the last press release on Microsoft's own Reader site was dated July 2003 (still the situation as at 25 July 2008)-- never a good sign but probably
about the time the bubble from the last
ebook wave of hype burst.
What I loved
about this
eBook is that these tips and suggestions,
seen through the eyes of a literary agent, and not just someone who thinks to know what they're talking
about.
I've been hearing readers complain
about rising
ebook prices and spotted more than a few at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet
seen the numbers on how this affects sales.
If you frequently visit
Ebook Friendly for Kindle tips, you must have
seen beautiful screenshots on how - to posts
about the Kindle Touch.
After I
saw you publishing your
ebooks and then NOT publishing on your blog except to publish your kindle books I felt well... better
about myself.
Right now everyone's talking
about ebooks, but in several years or more, the distinction between
ebooks and the web will fall away (
see Kevin Kelly's big vision for the web at TED talks, or Michael Bhaskar arguing that «Digital Books Are Already Here «-RRB-.
Traditional book review outlets, too, seem to be taking a wait - and -
see attitude
about eBooks.
I didn't
see them getting angry
about eBook technology so restrictive that it did not allow people to even copy and paste minute sections, consistent with the terms of fair use.
I have
seen your articles
about websites where readers can get
ebooks for free.
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't
see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of
Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
Ebooks panel and raise awareness
about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow au
ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
There's A Problem I've written before
about how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to
ebooks: So we have large publishers
seeing sales internationally that they can EASILY service at little marginal cost.
People who espouse
eBooks, who fall in love with
ebook technologies, suddenly
see themselves as an innovative, «special» group of people, and then, before you can bat an eyelid, we have billions of words of rhetoric
about the subject.
If anyone has specific requests
about ebook - related things you'd like to
see me post, please let me know!
Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned
about a good
ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we
see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback format.
I don't
see them caring, not one bit,
about the fact that the vast majority of
eBook formats eradicate a user's right to space - and sometimes even time - shift copyrighted works.
iBooks has a sales threshold before it agrees to put out a ranking, though, so although you will soon be able to
see sales stats (
about 3 days after the sale occurs), your
ebooks won't yet have met the threshold for sales and reviews that will let your
ebooks get ranked on iTunes.
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).
That way, anyone who samples the
eBook will
see it as the first thing they read
about you book.
When I first starting messing around with creating
eBooks using the Compile engine in Scrivener, I looked around the web to
see what people were saying
about it.
It'll be interesting to
see how the likes of Play fares if it seriously enters the
ebooks market, since that company at least has the gumption to mess
about with its audio download pricing structure.
If you want to
see what all of the fuss is
about and you have a Kobo Tablet or their official app, Reading Eggs is offering a bundle of 4 free educational
eBooks.
in our first couple of years, we could already
see that the US, the richest market for
ebooks in the world, was
about to become a battleground.
A bit biased review,
seeing as you are supposedly
about to release your 13.3
ebook reader, which is in direct competition.
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.
Most
eBook companies
see similar figures and have mainly voiced that they are not heavily concerned
about it.
Like in any main market, there is jockeying for positions and we have already
seen Federal Investigations
about exclusive Authors being roped into exclusive
ebook content distribution from Amazon and Apple.
If you need more general information
about publishing an
ebook, click on
ebook publishers Below you can
see some of the e.covers that I have designed for other people.
I just read the article
about the German
eBook situation — and I can really
see where protecting the culture of bookshops, especially independent and small bookshops would come into play.
Now that the
ebook market has plateaued at
about a quarter of the overall book market, we're starting to
see how the gain in efficiency of
ebooks can also mean a loss of deep comprehension.
If you take a look at many
eBooks about romance, you will
see some pretty suggestive and interesting covers.
And I've
seen a lot of surprising ignorance and idiocy
about where people think
ebooks come from (I'm waiting for someone to say «the stork brings them»)
For questions
about loading our
ebooks onto your eReader,
see our
ebook help page.
Are we
about to
see history repeat itself in the world of
ebooks?
I summarized my thinking
about ebook lending here and would love to
see more publishers rally around this simple solution: http://oreil.ly/PJE4Fd
-LSB-...] yes, if you go back to look at the January
eBook Cover Design Award post, you'll
see I've added
about 10 gold stars, so check them -LSB-...]