Not exact matches
Instead of
selling ebooks for a one - time cost and allowing
libraries to lend these
ebooks in perpetuity,... Read more >
Zinio has magazines
to sell and most
libraries only offer
eBooks, Audiobooks and video
for their multimedia content.
Whether you are
for or against
selling eBooks in the
library there is one big factor
to consider.
Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret
to a Bigger Life,
to school and public
libraries for every
ebook or hardcover book
sold at retail, up
to 5,000 copies.
Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six
to make its
ebooks available without restriction
for library lending, is setting the
library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the
sell - through information used
to determine retail pricing.»
Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six
to make its
ebooks available without restriction
for library lending, is setting the
library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the
sell - through information used
to determine retail pricing.
With the wealth of
ebooks titles available and an increase in the use of digital indie publishing platforms which enable authors
to post their own works as
ebooks, more and more readers are turning
to ebook lending
libraries and websites
for content, especially in recent months when best -
selling titles have often been marketed at a very similar price point
to their print counterparts.
The report shows not only the vast price difference between print and digital
for library purchase, but also shows which publishers refuse
to even
sell ebook titles
to libraries.
You can
sell that same $ 9
eBook to a
library for $ 30 or $ 40 because they are going
to loan it out.
My favorite thing about
selling eBooks to libraries is that you get
to charge a lot of money
for them.
Not only are you advocating
libraries becoming a place where everyone can get ALL their
ebooks without ever paying
for one, you think the
library should be able
to sell the book too.
One of the biggest draws and
selling points of Adobe DRM - supporting ereaders, especially the Sony Readers, is that you can checkout
ebooks for free from your local
library to read on them.
Instead of
selling ebooks for a one - time cost and allowing
libraries to lend these
ebooks in perpetuity, HarperCollins amended its terms
to limit a purchase
to 26 loans.
I'd like
to put in a good word
for Dana's
ebook «
Selling Your Book
to Libraries» — http://www.sellingtolibraries.com/
Excellent ahas on
selling and getting books and
ebooks into
libraries with Amy Collins — from pricing
to how
to pitch; which distributors #authors should be with and why authors should put energy into
libraries for book marketing.
My
ebook, The Savvy Book Marketer's Guide
to Selling Your Book
to Libraries offers tips on marketing to libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in
Libraries offers tips on marketing
to libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in
libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information
for major
libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in
libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and
library associations in the U.S.
It wouldn't be optimal but it would be attractive form the budget management perspective of a strap cashed
library director and the CEO of Publishing House Y, who has just found a market willing
to pay them thousands of dollars a year
for a product that requires no additional overhead (they were already going
to convert those
ebooks anyway and
sell them one at a time).
selling the
eBook rights
to library for lending purposes.
Ebooks costs
for libraries are notoriously higher than consumer prices (such that a bestseller from Random House
sells to public
libraries for $ 84).
Penguin Random House today announced a new unified, companywide terms of sale (
TOS) policy
for ebook licenses
sold to public, school, and other
libraries working with approved
ebook vendors in the United States and Canada.
Leading
library ebook distributor OverDrive was
sold to Rakuten on March 19
for $ 410 million cash, more than 16 times OverDrive's annual earnings of $ 25 million.
As
for libraries, the majority of publishers surveyed (75 %)
sell ebooks to libraries, up from 61 % in 2013.