Sentences with phrase «selling electronic books»

NEW YORK (Reuters)- In a sweeping rejection of Apple Inc's strategy for selling electronic books on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that the company conspired with five major publishers to raise e-book prices.

Kobo is running free classes for indie bookstore owners on how to profit from selling electronic books.

What the publishing CEOs were discussing was the issue of how Amazon was selling electronic books for its Kindle book reader, which they called the «$ 9.99 problem.»

I will, as I have said before, talk about some ideas on selling electronic books to independent bookstores, and maybe even into other stores.

Both Boarders and Barnes and Noble are in dire straights because of their overbloated retail chain, Barnes and Noble was seriously thinking of folding mid way last year, its only saving grace has been the popularity of their Nook E-Reader and selling electronic Books.

So when we started into selling electronic books, we priced our books at the lowest point allowed, which was 99 cents.

Bilbary floats under the radar in terms of online viability for selling electronic books in a very crowded marketplace.

Some companies you might not have heard of; such as eBooks.com already do this, and the online social publishing site, Scribd begun to sell electronic books this year.

There are hundreds of bookstores that sell electronic books online, some are very niche specific and others sell everything under the sun.

Indie bookstores have been looking for a way to sell electronic books in their stories and this is it.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony, for example, also sell electronic books for people to read on other devices, such as the iPhone.

Furthermore, it's now possible for authors to sell electronic books, which have practically no material costs at all.

No offense to Fictionwise or BooksonBoard or whoever, but there was never a particularly compelling proposition for a publisher of any size to sell electronic books through retailers not named Amazon.

Sony has signed bookstore Borders to sell its electronic book, the Reader, throughout the chain's 200 US shops.

Not exact matches

Considering that a fax machine is apt to need service as frequently as a laser printer or an electronic typewriter — about one and a half times a year — learning to perform even a minor repair (for example: «Soldering Tips and Techniques») will sooner or later cover the price of the book.

Still, it's amazing that the consumer data tracked by Amazon extends even to take - out food orders, not just books and electronic devices sold on the Amazon.com platform.

Tricycles, bikes, books, games, furniture, toys, trinkets of every shape and size, extra clothes, fans and other electronic do - dads were all brought to one place to be given away or sold.

Another initiative was a special tax exemption that Cuomo's administration created for electronic books, which are sold by, among others, HarperCollins.

For example, if your book is selling for $ 4.99 electronically and selling 25 copies per month TOTAL across ALL electronic sites, and also selling 5 copies POD per month at a $ 3.00 average income, your income per month is about $ 102.50.

As American John Locke becomes the first self - published writer to sell a million Kindle electronic books, the first «indie authors» to top the UK e-books chart explain their success.

And I think that there have been a number of really significant markers, the most recent being that Amazon just announced last week that it had sold more electronic books than hard covers in the last three months.

E-books are electronic books that are sold and delivered electronically.

Google plans to begin selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader Amazon.

This chapter features remarks by Eguild president Steve Lazarowitz and best - selling ebook author Leta Nolan Childers that put to death many of the myths hounding the quality and availability of books printed in electronic bindings.

If you screwed up and allowed the publisher to keep the electronic rights or POD rights, even selling only a few copies a year, you won't see any money ever again on this book besides dinner money every year.

In English - language book - contracts, it's almost always the case that countries where English isn't the native or official language are «open territory,» meaning that if a writer sells her English language rights in Canada and the US to Macmillan, and her UK / Australia / NZ / South African rights to Penguin, both Penguin and Macmillan are legally allowed to sell competing English print and electronic editions in Norway, Rwanda, India, China, and Russia.

As electronic books started to gain percentage of total books sold, a very small, but very vocal group of writers sprang up that I call indie publishers.

Electronic books composed somewhere around a half of 1 % of all books sold, if that.

Amazon had sold out of its basic Kindle electronic book reader on Wednesday with no indication as to when deliveries would resume.

Raffel, the author of «Smasher» and «Dot.Dead,» two published thrillers which take place in Silicon Valley, is experimenting with selling electronic versions of another book, «Drop by Drop.»

The contract you signed gives them the right to change the terms of the deal any time they want, including how much they'll let you have of your sales money, and it gives them control over what price you can sell your books for in the entire electronic market.

How a book sells in the first week or the first month means nothing in this new world of unlimited electronic shelf space.

The online retailing giant says that for the first time, it has sold more electronic copies of books than actual print editions.

Despite recent criticism that smartphone screens are too small or lack the clarity of dedicated e-book readers, electronic books are selling well to smartphone and handheld users, said Pendergrast, president and chief technology officer of Fictionwise, the e-book seller that Barnes & Noble Inc. purchased for $ 15.7 million earlier this month.

After another year or so, (note, we were about three years in at this point) what started to become clear as electronic books exploded in sales was that readers were buying electronic books in place of mass market paperbacks, the pocket - sized books that sold around $ 7.99.

Publishers are concerned that so many successful new titles are sold for $ 9.99 or less on Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic book reader and Fictionwise, an e-book retailer owned by Barnes & Noble Inc..

All 11 of my books are published in electronic format already, and sell fairly well; half of them are out in print form.

In fact, the new study out today shows that electronic books across all trades are just under 20 % of books sold.

Amazon.com Inc., a major force behind e-readers with its pioneering commercial success, the Kindle, said last week that it was selling more electronic books than printed ones.

Those are, of course, traditionally published titles being sold in electronic editions by Kobo to bookstore customers, not books that originated in the digital space.

Spanish daily El Pais last week cited «editorial sources» as saying Amazon would start selling the Kindle and its catalogue of electronic books in Spain before the end of the year.

In fact, in 2011 Amazon declared that for the first time, it had sold more Kindle e-books than paperback books, at a rate of 115 electronic books for -LSB-...]

If Publisher does not: eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.

The big difference, of course, is that many of the electronic books are sold, at least by Amazon, for less than the printed book, and many, many readers would argue, as it should be.

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.

A report recently released says that Amazon accounts for over 90 % of all electronic books sold in the UK.

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.

Take James Patterson for example, who sells the most electronic books on Amazon.

The readers won't buy expensive electronic books, so the feedback loop in traditional publishing is that electronic books don't sell well.

Electronic shelf space is practically infinite, so writers can put their books out and go write the next one without having to worry about selling to the satisfaction of some corporate bean - counter.