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.»
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
«But to
sell electronic versions of those exact same
books, publishers told us that you have to be a mega corporation.»
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.
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.»
(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...