Sentences with phrase «share selling e-books»

Considering Apples currently market share selling e-books right now, this is not helping them.

Not exact matches

About once a month, I will collaborate with a fellow entrepreneur, author or teacher to share a downloadable training, be a guest on a telesummit or produce a webinar — that's an «online seminar» — on a particular topic, like «how to start a podcast» or «ways to brand your website,» or «the quickest way to write, sell and promote an e-book.»

Both elementary and secondary librarians have shared with me that e-books are still a hard sell even to our «digital natives.»

If the publishers would agree a deal with Tom Kabinet, they would get a share for every sold e-book, even when that was an illegal one, they did get some money to compensate that which they would never got if people only download them from usenet, but they didn't even react on that offer made by Tom Kabinet.

Every major publisher sells e-books with encryption that basically prevents unlawful sharing and distribution to file sharing sites.

This new updated 2nd edition now has more options for those on a tighter budget, teaches you how to get your book into print (and why that helps selling e-books), tells you why you should start a mailing list immediately, and shares the pros and cons of going exclusive with Amazon.

Most ebooks were sold protected with DRM, E-book market share leader Amazon has been criticized for using DRM for e-books they sell for the Kindle device, and it appears that Apple will employ the same tactics.

«It was clear that e-books were taking a greater and greater share of total sales, and we wanted to be able to tell our readers which titles were selling and how they fit together with print sales.»

So, in the name of antitrust, the level playing field of the past two years — agency model e-books were priced the same whether sold by Amazon, Barnes & Noble or independent bookstores — will likely revert to a situation where a near - monopoly power determines pricing and most other retailers see their already - smaller market share shrink.

As a share of units sold, e-books account for two to three times the revenue figures, because e-books are sold at a deep discount to paper editions.

Google makes money from advertising whether the e-books are being sold legally by the publisher or author, or whether they are being sold illegally by a pirate, or whether they are being «shared» in violation of the authors» copyright by some blogger via links to a file - sharing site.

Amazon currently has a 75 % market share in the US and 95 % in the United Kingdom when it comes to selling e-books.

Data on the whole of the digital market is not currently available, so the Bookseller has estimated that if the big five hold a similar market share in digital as they do in print (56 %), there were 85.5 m e-books sold in Britain in 2015.

Barnes and Nobles plans to launch the Nook and sell e-books in other markets was stymied when they bought back Microsoft's shares in the Nook division last year and closed their Luxembourg offices a few weeks ago.

Amazon has the largest market share and 75 % of all e-books sold in the US stem from the Kindle bookstore, while in the UK the figure is closer to 95 %.

As the world's largest online retailer, Amazon can afford to sell e-books at a loss to gain market share, said Michael Norris, an analyst for Simba Information Inc., a Stamford, Connecticut - based researcher.

Join us as Jim shares the clever marketing tactics he employed to ensure that readers were buying paperback copies of his book, despite the fact that he was also selling a less expensive e-book version.

The proposed Final Judgment therefore broadly defines banned «Price MFNs» to include not only MFNs requiring publishers to match retail e-book prices across e-book retailers (the MFNs in the Apple Agency Agreements), but also MFNs requiring publishers to match the wholesale prices at which e-books are sold to e-book retailers, and MFNs requiring publishers to match the revenue share or commission given to other e-book retailers.

They have sold one million iReader devices in China and hold a 40 % market share, with over 500 million registered users who regularly use their e-book reading apps for Android and iOS.

Amazon and Hachette have been battling since the spring over the price of e-books, and the share of revenue that each company would collect when books are sold.

The statement of claim in B.C. alleges that the defendants conspired to change the method by which e-books were sold, driving up prices, and with the intention of eroding the market share held by Amazon, which was the largest eBook seller «before the alleged conspiracy was implemented,» it says.

Strunge said that he has invested a considerable part of the 120 million kroner he earned selling his share of the telecommunications company Onfone into a new e-book subscription project.

Assuming a broadly similar share in digital — the five probably garner a greater piece of the digital pie compared to other traditional publishers, but self - publishing makes up a decent percentage of e-books — that gives us 85.5 million e-books sold in Britain in 2015.

Since Apple was coming into the e-book market late and was trying to mount an attack on Amazon's (s amzn) entrenched market share, the deal with publishers to institute what is known as «agency pricing» seemed like a good idea: It gave Apple plenty of content (plus 30 percent of the revenue from each book sold), and the publishers got to control the price of their books, something they weren't allowed to do with Amazon.

Compare this to the $ 1.22 per book income (which needs to be shared with an agent) for a $ 6.99 e-book sold through a publisher.

In a few short years Tolino went from having no market share to accounting for 1 in every 2 e-books sold.

These views are surprising — refreshing, even — from a company whose primary business is selling e-books, and Amazon does not share them.

Barnes & Noble now represents more than 25 percent of all of the U.S. market for e-books, more than the company's share of physical books, and it sells twice the number of e-books as physical books, at least online.

Oh, and it would give the Trads even more reason to price their backlog ridiculously, since I can't be the only one who's considered it for the really old e-books they're selling for four to six bucks — so you'd be, in the long run, shrinking your share of the pot by making it so that people mostly try the really expensive books and don't even try sanely priced books, thus never getting exposed to your writing and it not leading to them buying your books outside the program.

Scott Turow, president of the Author's Guild went on CBC News and discussed Amazon's strategy of selling bestselling e-books at a loss to tie - up a 90 % share of the e-book market.

BA members will also be able to sell e-books directly to Kobo users, and participating stores will receive a share of every sale.

Is anyone actually 100 % clear whether Amazon is «offering» (scare quotes, because a leaked letter floating an idea to only a few authors isn't an actual offer) to give $ 9.99 for every e-book sold straight to the authors, or just offering to give Amazon's share of $ 9.99 as long as Hachette agrees to hand over their share?

All things being equal, let's say he sold those 71,633 e-books to break even at $ 250,000 with Amazon (with 55 % market share).

The online retailer promises to share 10 percent of e-book revenue for purchases made on Kindle devices sold through participating bookstores.

Amazon allegedly established the $ 9.99 e-book standard by selling the digital media at a loss in 2007, employing a «wholesale» model to move more of its Kindle e-readers and secure the lion's share of the e-book market with a 90 percent grip.

From sharing the best way to sell your books, or the reason why your e-book may simply not be having any success at all, this book is great for all authors simply to trying to raise the bar revenue wise.

Booksellers will share in the revenue from each e-book and device sold.

(For instance, from Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece on publishing and the iPad intro: «Amazon had been buying many e-books from publishers for about thirteen dollars and selling them for $ 9.99, taking a loss on each book in order to gain market share and encourage sales of its electronic reading device, the Kindle.»

Because they tend to sell their e-books for a lot more than $ 4.99, the Big Five's share of gross revenue is still around 40 percent, but it's falling fast, too.

They will be able to sell e-books directly to their customers online, sharing sales revenue with Kobo.

I genuinely DO NOT think all buyers of e-books are going to turn around and «share» my books thousands of times on a pirate site, but the fact that more people have FREE copies of my books than my publisher has sold makes me a bit concerned about my ability to pay my bills every month.

For libraries and organizations looking to share e-book resources, the Pew numbers indicate that users will not only need to understand «how to» borrow; but also be sold on the utility of lending over buying.