Sentences with phrase «several ebook publishers»

News — 1) Amazon is the first to send «good news» emails regarding credits for past purchases of eBooks as a result of a settlement between several eBook publishers and the Attorney Generals of most states (sorry Minnesota).

Not exact matches

Google's catalogue already includes several hundred thousand commercial eBooks from its 35,000 publisher partners.

Our technology is used worldwide by 2 of the Big 5 publishers, some very large independent D2C publishers, several hundreds of medium sized publishers selling D2C, quite a few independent eBook web shops and also numerous web shops of smaller publishers, self publishing authors and systems integration.

After our keynote «Lessons learned with Social DRM», several publishers not only liked the idea, they also asked us if we could do the same with eBooks instead of audio books.

Digital - first and ebook - only publishers are already providing services to authors whose books would never make it past the censors, and crowdfunding of books has already produced several titles.

The American Library Association held its Midwinter conference this week, but the real news to come from that gathering is that the ALA's key leadership has asked for and gotten a meeting with several major publishers to figure out where eBook lending is going from here.

One of her big accomplishments was getting several of the top six publishers to loan out their ebooks to libraries all over the USA.

Rockstand that counts itself among the leading ebook reading app in India has now forged alliances with several key publishers which includes Delhi Press, Next - Gen Publishing, Hay Market, BPB Publications & Magna Publishing.

Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self - publishing several of his unpublished novels in ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own than with a traditional publisher, became indie publishing's most vocal champion.

I, like Joe, have a large backlist of titles, have had agents, several, and have published with maybe eight of the publishers in NYC and guess what - there are legitimate writers publishing ebooks every two hours right now and soon I hope to have every book I ever wrote — around fifty on ebooks.

Politics has played an important role: in Europe, several governments including France, Russia and Germany are investing tens of millions to shore up their publishing and bookselling infrastructure, while in the United States a contentious lawsuit saw the Department of Justice convicting Apple and five of America's largest publishers of colluding to fix ebook prices.

I produce a trio of ebooks for Publisher's Weekly several times a year which get distributed via Ingram to Netgalley, major retailers, Overdrive, and Edelweiss.

Someone pointed out yesterday that Harper has redone their website and they're selling ebooks and print books now as are several other publishers.

Using the language of preceding paragraphs, you could define us as a small traditional publisher, utilizing print runs and more often, printing on demand, as well as several ebook formats.

Jutoh is somewhat more polished and more fun to work with, and has various extras such as a desktop for adding shortcuts and notes, the ability to add scraps (web addresses, images, and text) to your Jutoh document without them appearing in the ebook, and several ways to customize your book for different web sites or publishers.

I've found several of them in used paperback since Amazon started that but those are the ones that the publishers had the ebook version priced double, or more, of the original paperback price.

Barbara elegantly collapses into one sentence the last several years of the ebook wars and, even more importantly, identifies all stakeholders in the reading ecology: not just publishers and libraries, but authors and readers.

Before Amazon emerged, there were six major publishing houses, each with several imprints; Amazon indirectly had a significant impact on their finances through the ebook price fixing investigation that resulted in settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars from the publishers alone.

Libranda began as an ebook platform that digitized the titles from several of Spain's major publishers, although there were complaints of issues for consumers, namely the use of Adobe as the file system and all of the bugs that came with it.

As 2011 came to close and predictions were made for the future of the publishing industry, several sources within the industry supported the idea that transmedia reading was going to see huge gains in popularity this year as readers come to expect more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebooks.

BookShout, the ebook distribution platform that has seen a great deal of recent success in partnering with publishers to produce sales dashboards and seamless, device - agnostic file integration for ebook consumers, announced at today's DBW event that several industry veterans from across major publishers have joined BookShout's team for its new print distribution initiative.

There were even concerns that the ALA Midwinter conference might see some organized and heated protests by members in the exhibit hall where these publishers have set up booths, but several spoke about the futility of letting feelings over eBook lending become hostile.

Abroad, several other international entities also began their own investigations into claims that Apple and the publishers made an illegal closed - door agreement to arrange the pricing on ebooks specifically in order to edge out Amazon.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically be exponentially cheaper than print books, and it's a topic that hasn't made much headway in the last several years.

Traditional book publishers were caught off guard by the explosion in ebooks and have been fighting a rear guard action for several years now.

While their digital shelves technically hold fewer ebooks than Amazon's if the KU Test's 638,434 count is accurate, Oyster and Scribd have already signed deals with several publishers, including HarperCollins and Simon & Shuster.

Good news for ebook readers in the UK, Google announced yesterday that they've expanded their ebook store to the United Kingdom, making available several hundred thousand ebooks from major UK publishers like Random House, Hachette, and Penguin, not to mention Google's two million free public domain ebooks.

More and more traditional publishers contract with formerly selfpublished authors and several of them have formed their own selfpublishing platforms or ebook programs.

Now I'm wondering what to do with that, seeing as several of the ebooks are from different publishers and it's random.

Virtually all books that are out of copyright are already available for free across the internet at various sites in most formats and you can use several apps to convert them into the Kindle ebook format.I can not support any attempt by Amazon to start charging for books that are already free.I do support the concept of a subscription based ebook service however and encourage all publishers to enter into such an agreement as quickly as possible before they become completely irrelevant.

Due to supposed concerns over ebook piracy and the interests of the authors who write these books, several publishers pulled their titles from the OverDrive catalog.

According to the article, the business practice taken on by several retailers now that settlement terms have been reached with some publishers to reinstate the wholesale model is going to make it impossible to purchase ebooks.

Along with that REDgroup Retail expanded its ebook line - up which led to several major publishers adding their titles to their library.

The Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and several publishers was going to end the publishing industry, and apparently so will allowing libraries to lend ebooks.

When the world's largest publishers struck ebook distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies.

-LSB-...] As anyone who follows digital publishing industry can tell you, publishers have been raising their ebook prices over the past several years to the point that print books are often now cheaper than ebooks.

On several occasions, we ended up talking about how libraries lend ebooks and how that can affect sales, not unlike the discussions we had with some publishers.

It's certainly possible to make a living selling only ebooks, and ebooks are attractive to self - publishers for a lot of reasons, but there are still several good reasons to publish print versions of your books as well.

We've worked with several publishers recently who are choosing to publish their book (s) exclusively as eBooks.

Last week, GoodeReader posed a rhetorical question, essentially asking why so many individuals and organizations have voiced their opinions in favor of Apple and several publishers who have been accused of colluding on ebook prices in order to drive consumer traffic away from Amazon.

But those backlists aren't forgotten; on the contrary, technologically savvy publishers are now experimenting with using those backlist ebooks to add even more value to digital purchases by bundling several titles.

By displaying the available ebooks in the various publisher catalogs to patrons, as well as linking the libraries websites to several major online book selling retailers, libraries stand to benefit from the affiliates» program while patrons have the option to purchase ebooks that their libraries may not offer.

Amazon is in talks with several major publishers to offer a ebook subscription system for phones and tablets that is comparable to Netflix.

As part of the settlement terms in several states» Attorneys General lawsuits against some of the Big Six publishers over alleged ebook price fixing, Amazon customers received some welcome news today: they would be receiving account credits on eligible purchases.

As US publishers and libraries still struggle to create a mutually beneficial yet fluid ebook lending model, Swedish company Atingo thinks they have the solution, one that has worked in several thousands public and school libraries in both Sweden and the UK.

Despite the previous whirlwind week that included the Department of Justice going forward with a lawsuit against Apple and two publishers for colluding to force Amazon to raise the prices of its ebooks, as well as the launch of a new device from one of Amazon's key competitors that does something that no current Kindle can do, Amazon calmly announced several highly anticipated titles from its Amazon Publishing division under the New Harvest imprint, newly formed under Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

There's no «right» price for ebooks, and each author or publisher will need to take several factors into consideration.

After noteworthy success with several romance imprints of major publishing houses, Andre became one of the first writers to publisher her own ebook titles immediately following the launch of Barnes & Noble's digital imprint, PubIt!

With competition from eBooks and several other print publishers, Lulu prices need to go down to gain and retain market share and improved profits

After several meetings with the publisher, the ALA reached an agreement, only to find that Hachette increased the price of their eBooks to libraries by 104 %.