Sentences with phrase «significant number of publishers»

Originally, Amazon approached several major publishers and attempted to negotiate a flat - rate payment model for use of some of their major titles in this lending program, but a significant number of publishers turned them down.

Not exact matches

Yes, many large publishers, media companies, and agents have a number of significant authors and properties.

A growing number of independent authors, selling ebooks without a publisher, are making significant numbers of sales.

But until I see evidence that publishers and authors are experiencing significant sales of their ebooks to Sony device owners, those hardware unit sales numbers won't have traction for me.

Perhaps traditional publishers are better at gaining international visibility for their ebooks with a significant number of daily sales.

While she understands that publishers sometimes struggle to respond to this shifting marketplace, she warns of the impermanent nature of eCollections and sees it as a major obstacle in shifting from ownership to subscription, adding: «continuity of access is important for a number of reasons, and there are significant logistical and workflow issues if e-textbooks are added to, and subsequently removed from, catalogs.»

Other highlights from the report include a significant increase in the number of publishers producing digital audiobooks, which rose by 11 % over 2015, and a 20 % jump in the number of firms utilizing the agency pricing model for their ebooks.

What's significant in relation to Locke hitting the million - seller Kindle ebook mark is that it showcases that while choosing the Kindle Direct Publishing route removes agents and publishers from the equation, Locke makes less money with his 99 - cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.

In terms of sales, while UK publishers and their Irish based imprints have come to dominate the book trade, significant numbers of books published by Irish houses continue to sell in print form and account for anything between 15 - 25 % of the trade.

And notes on several other talking points from the report read this way: «Other highlights include a significant increase in the number of publishers producing digital audiobooks — which rose by 11 percent over 2015 — and a 20 - percent jump in the number of firms utilizing the agency pricing model for their ebooks.