The company also noted that its # 1 and # 4 best -
selling eBooks released this year were published by independent authors through its Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
Not exact matches
Amazon opened the floodgates in 2007, the same year it
released its first e-reader, when it launched Kindle Direct Publishing, allowing anyone to upload, publish, and
sell his own
ebook for free.
When Amazon
released the Kindle, for example, it disrupted its physical book -
selling business, but with a more innovative solution
selling eBooks.
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Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new
ebook releases at the wholesale price of the hardcovers, then turning around and
selling them for retail at dollars less.
Last week, for the first time ever, a major author — or, in many minds (as though it's a matter of opinion), THE world - premiere author of the # 1 best -
selling series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling — has decided (with her publisher) to
release the
ebooks directly.
I'm doing this with the
release of my
Sell More Books on Amazon print book in fact, with the purchase of a print book I'll gift the
eBook version to a friend or colleague of yours.
I've heard figures from big publishers stating that many new
releases sell more
ebooks than print books.
Amazon mentioned in an earlier press
release that five fiction authors, Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts, have
sold over 500,000 Kindle
eBooks each.
This was the first time I'd ever recouped the
ebook - creation expenses before the book was
released (when going through Amazon and other online retailers, you get paid 60 + days after books
sell).
I've refreshed the data about my offer to hand -
sell ebook copies to people until I can deploy for general
release.
The bookseller chalked up the disappointing Nook revenue to «lower unit
selling volume» and dwindling
ebook sales, particularly when compared to the
release of The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey trilogies this time last year.
Well - known researcher, feminist and author, Naomi Klein,
released her best -
selling book on climate change about one year after I
released my first
ebook, using This Changes Everything as her book's title, which is identical to MY Volume I of The Spanners Series «title.
It means
ebook prices in the $ 5.99 — $ 6.99 range, even for new
releases from top -
selling authors.
E-Reader and
eBook sales has been the saving grace of the company and it looks like figures
released for the last 2 months in NOOKnewstand sales is over half a million with 650,0000 newspapers and magazines
sold.
He's not an established author, but he used our platform to
release this beautiful
ebook which has
sold over $ 20,000 worth in the first five days of our launch.
By delaying the Overdrive Kindle
release still further but not that to Amazon, publishers
sell more
ebooks on Amazon and recoup some of the added costs that Amazon has forced on them.
Walmart partnered with Kobo to
sell ebooks and audiobooks on its website and will also
release a co-branded app later this year so people can read and listen.
Awesomegang was started by serial internet marketer Vinny O'Hare http://vinnyohare.com after his
release of his first
eBook Cadillac Pictures Volume 1 (http://www.cadillaccountryclub.com/blog/cadillac-pictures-for-sale-on-kindle/) was not
selling after the book was launched.
If they're just
releasing this info to authors, does that mean that they're
selling an
ebook reader that hasn't got any books it can read?
The transitional turmoil in the publishing industry is prompting authors to ask publishers specifically what the benefits are when they
sell the rights to a popular
ebook to one of the â $ œbig sixâ $ to be eventually
release as a pbook.
Clearly, the Kindle is the best -
selling eBook reader and has been since it was
released several years ago.
You can make money
selling ebooks with social media, eblasts, press
releases and other tactics.
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Random House Children's Books, the publisher of multi-award winning and best -
selling children's author Dr. Seuss» entire catalog of children's content, announced today that it would begin
releasing most of the author's forty - four books as
ebooks for young readers, starting with fifteen titles near the end of this month.
In order to continue
selling ebooks on the Apple platform, Amazon got really sneaky and
released a workaround.The Kindle Cloud Reader was developed in the first quarter of 2011 and
released to the public in August.
Kobo has just
released new data that takes a look at the
ebooks that
sold the most units this year in Canada and the United States.
The bottom line is that Amazon's
eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top
selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new
releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.
(65 % of $ 11.64) If Amazon
sells any of the $ 14.99
ebooks, it makes $ 9.75 — over three times what it's making on these discounted hardcover new
releases.
Google Editions is slated for an August
release that offers publishers and authors a platform to
sell books directly from their website, having Google host the Book, Checkout process and more, seeking to change the current
Ebook distribution methodology.
Although indie authors can not currently
sell enhanced
ebooks on any major platforms, they do have the option to put their books up for sale before their
release date, at least on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble (via Smashwords).
Even though people like to say that
ebooks are forever and that you can continue to earn money from them indefinitely, the natural order of things is for new
releases to
sell better than older books, especially in the case of a series that's been finished for a couple of years.
It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset
ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale
selling model to an agency
selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for
ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover
releases.
A
release from
ebook developer Vook today announced that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will now accommodate embedded videos in
ebooks, which is long - awaited news for authors who have until now not been able to promote and
sell their titles on one of the largest retail platforms for
ebooks.
When a hard copy book is
released, it usually
sells anywhere between $ 20.00 to $ 50.00, where as the
ebook versions usually price at $ 9.00 to $ 12.00.
Random House Children's Books, the publisher of multi-award winning and best -
selling children's author Dr. Seuss» entire catalog of children's content, announced today that it would begin
releasing most of the author's forty - four books as
ebooks for young readers, starting with fifteen titles near the end of this... [Read more...]
According to an Amazon UK
release, the company is now
selling more
ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago.
B&N just
released a major update for the Nook Color so replacing it now makes no logical sense, and a Honeycomb Nook makes even less sense because B&N are in the business of
selling ebooks, not hardware.
The Skytex Primer is a 7 ″ color
ebook reader and portable media player that is expected to
sell for $ 99 when it is
released in October.
Given the fact that the Kobo Aura 2
sells for $ 119, it would make sense for them to
release an
ebook reader under $ 100, or at least drop the price of the Aura to $ 99.
By giving away a number of free
eBooks away before the
release, you can request that they give you a review on Amazon or whichever outlet you choose to
sell your book through as soon as the book is live.
One of them was
released last week and it has already
sold more audio books than
ebooks this month.
tinyurl.com/Top2012
eBooks At the end of the year, Amazon
released this fun list of their top 100 best -
selling Kindle
ebooks of 2012.
There are a few reasons this isn't as far - fetched as you may think — lots of backlist books being
released as
ebooks, indie authors continuing to
sell books at $ 1, smaller publishers and new publishers taking advantage of Amazon and Apple's 70 % cut model.
«[T] he # 1 and # 4 best -
selling Kindle books
released in 2011 were both published independently,» they announced, and both
ebooks came from authors using Amazon's «Kindle Direct Publishing» program for self - publishing
ebooks.
Back in July, the company's press
release Kobo Writing Life announced that more than 17,000 authors have uploaded more than 100,000
eBook titles and
sell their
eBooks in 184 countries.
by Nina Amir Even if you spend time evaluating your
ebook idea prior to writing and publishing it, you may still lack certainty about its ability to
sell once
released in the marketplace.
PORTLAND, OR — BookBaby announces the
release of its latest guide for authors entitled Making Money With Your
eBook, urging authors to «think like a marketer and
sell your book like a pro.»
But then again, Safe Haven was also
released as major motion picture in February, and became the # 1 best -
selling Kindle
ebook of the year — while not even making it into the top 100 on Amazon's list of the best -
selling printed books!
A tiny Australian publisher then
released them as
ebooks and print - on - demand paperbacks,
selling about 250,000 copies.