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.»
Google plans to begin
selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader Amazon.
Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to
sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high - school books.
In fact, the company has thousands of books under its label and they are planning to
sell the electronic version of the books through their own online bookstore called Storia.
Amazon has reached agreements with all of the major publishers to
sell electronic versions of their books, which readers can wirelessly download to Kindle.
«But to
sell electronic versions of those exact same books, publishers told us that you have to be a mega corporation.»
Not exact matches
5 Before they struck it rich, Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs made and
sold «blue boxes,»
electronic versions of Draper's whistle.
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In a surprising flip of the traditional publishing cycle, Random House's Doubleday recently announced plans to print hardcover
versions of E.L. James» bestselling 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, even though
electronic and mass market paperback editions have already
sold 65 million copies.
Non-trade e-books include
electronic versions of children's picture books and academic textbooks, reference materials, and other specialized texts that typically are published by separate imprints from trade books, often are
sold through separate channels, and are not reasonably substitutable for trade e-books.
The book contents are changed into
electronic versions, and are
sold online at a price much lower than paper books, even some of them are free of charge.
Amazon began offering digital books in Spanish and Italian for the Kindle on Thursday and
selling Spanish - and Italian - language
versions of the
electronic book reader.
Amazon released a press release today that gave some evidence that it is
selling way more
electronic versions of books then they are the hardbound cousins.
(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is hoping to snag even more customers for the
electronic books it
sells by releasing a
version of its Kindle e-reader software for phones that use Google Inc.'s increasingly popular Android operating system.
It's important to understand that distribution refers to the act of giving away or
selling your book in it's entirety on ebook distribution sites such as Smashwords, BookBaby etc. or in the form of PDF or other digital or
electronic versions of your ENTIRE (FULL) book.
So I could start
selling a draft, complete it, publish the printed
version (and give a discount to those who bought the
electronic one), and then keep updating the
electronic version, letting those users download the updates.
Amazon unveiled two new
versions of its Kindle
electronic reader in late July, including one that
sells for 139 dollars, its lowest price yet.
It's the other terms of the deal that he was swayed by: for example, the fact that Amazon was going to come out with an e-book
version within a matter of days after the book was finished, and then follow that quickly with a paperback — and that both were going to be
sold at a cheaper price, instead of the traditional industry's approach of trying to charge print prices for
electronic books.
If book
selling is your goal, it's wise to offer your book in as many
versions as possible: print,
electronic, and audio.
For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic
selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an
electronic version of a book.»
Downloadable
electronic versions of textbooks for Marvell's Moby tablet could
sell for a fraction of the bound
versions.
(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. is hoping to snag even more customers for the
electronic books it
sells by releasing a
version of its Kindle e-reader software for phones that use Google Inc.'s increasingly popular Android operating...
It can be quite time - consuming to «
sell» an
electronic product to a staunch advocate of the print
version.
Whether you have a paper
version or an
electronic version, your resume is a tool for you to
sell yourself to your prospective employers.