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There was a huge increase in the number of small eBooks I sold this month.

Not exact matches

The small goal I mentioned in this post was just publishing an ebook and selling 10 copies at $ 10 a month.

For what it's worth, I know several professional writers, one of whom is with a HUGE press and receives enviable publicity and support; a couple of whom are with small presses of varying quality; and many of whom are self - published, hustling hard to sell a couple of books a month (or giving their ebooks away for free).

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.

Ebooks cause no storage costs and very small delivery costs, can be sold with fewer intermediaries... they should be significantly cheaper than paperbacks, all the time.

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Do you really need to sell ebooks locally, be a next big - small guy?

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

And many small presses may well be selling their own ebooks as well.

Tweet Small Business Marketing as a Business Model When I started my online business in 2006, my dream and goal was to write and sell eBooks on a variety of topics and create information products to sell online.

Over time the sales impact will become pronounced, especially if the small markets don't develop a local infrastructure for selling ebooks.

The number of ebooks sold was smaller than they expected so the payment was increased.

Energy Sistem is small electronics company that has been selling ebook readers since at least 2010 with the Energy Book 3050 and 4050 Touch.

Considering the relatively small percentage of people who read more than 12 books / year, ebooks» primary selling points — portability and space - saving — aren't all that compelling outside of the conference circuit.

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With eBooks prices foreseeable coming down, as smaller publishing houses can sell books cheaper than any other store, authors, and smaller publishing companies can get wider exposure which is a boon to everyone from the reader, to the author.

The essence of this program is that it allows small shop owners to sell e-readers, ebooks, and have access to marketing materials.

Shortly after the launch of the iPad, TorrentFreak took a look at a small group of popular business titles and calculated that unauthorized eBook downloads on BitTorrent grew by 78 % on average — and that was when Apple had sold only about 300,000 iPads.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: # 1,350 Books sold per day: 104 Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Business & Money > Entrepreneurship & Small Business > Home - Based

In addition to selling books at its own online store with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's iBookstore, the Sony eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.

GSB publishes ebooks and trade paperbacks that are sold online and hand sold to small bookstores.

In the meantime, Google will take the energy it used to spend on letting small bookstores sell ebooks and transfer that to trying to build Google Play into the ebook powerhouse it had hoped to become when it first launched the affiliates reseller program.

Essentially, the complaint seems to come down to the fact that the American Booksellers Association has a partnership with Kobo to let indie bookstores not only sell the devices in their shops, but also to sell ebooks to customers while making a small affiliate - style profit on it.

Borders recently suspended selling ebooks and diverted all of its customers to Kobo, in which Borders has a small minority stake.

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

What percentage of ebooks being sold come from traditional publishing, small press, and indie authors?

It allows small publishers and independent authors to sell their ebooks on a new platform, DRM - Free.

It makes it possible for small publishers and indie authors to sell eBooks on their own websites.

I sell my ebooks through Scribd since mine are in pdf format (I have too many tables and pics for the small screen of an epub doc).

A publishing community, founded by readers to support writers, GSB publishes ebooks and trade paperbacks that are sold online and hand sold to small bookstores.

Given that big publishers keep the prices of eBooks artificially high (they'd sell millions of $ 2 eBooks, but I suspect their $ 20 printed complements wouldn't look very appealing to consumers), small publishers have exploited the low production and distribution costs to flood the market with $ 1 — $ 3 eBooks.

500 is a good price first iPhone had a way lower processor and way smaller screen than ipad and sold for 600 to get a device with a 9 inch screen and can run all iPhone apps be a ebook reader movie and tv show watcher for 500 is good and the first iPhone had no app store for that 600 dollars either to me this is a great value for the money

There are a few reasons this isn't as far - fetched as you may think — lots of backlist books being released as ebooks, indie authors continuing to sell books at $ 1, smaller publishers and new publishers taking advantage of Amazon and Apple's 70 % cut model.

The currently - informal Digital Publishers Association comprises many small digital presses, some of which have been selling ebooks since before the turn of this century.

BB eBooks will be adding a Publishing section to our website soon, so that self - publishing authors and small presses can have resources for marketing and selling their products.

By distributing EPUB eBooks to these platforms, Smashwords is an excellent choice for independent authors and small presses to sell their eBooks on all the major platforms (except for Amazon, which you should publish at directly via KDP).

After all there is no reason why using Paypal or some other selling tool, an author could conceivably sell ebooks directly to readers and maybe even turn a small trade by doing so.

While the Big - Five published works make money, the author gets a small share of what the publisher makes regardless of how production costs are lower to produce eBooks to sell on Amazon.

Early on in the ebook revolution, Amazon enacted a policy charging authors a small fee for every ebook sold and downloaded that had a file size larger than 1 MB — mainly targeting graphic - heavy ebooks such as graphic novels and children's books.

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Several prominent iOS - based e-reading apps received updates on Monday that removed one small, but important feature: To comply with Apple's latest policies on selling app content outside of the standard in - app purchasing API, the Kindle, Kobo, Google, and Nook apps all dropped in - app links to their Web - based ebook stores.

We can also help you sell through any of the medium to smaller eBook retailers.

The result is that there are many online retailers who now sell eBooks — from the big players such as Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble (US), and Google, to a myriad of smaller retailers.

There's no word yet of which publishers will be likely to support Google Editions but it's hard to see Google having much trouble attracting publishers who will welcome more competition and Google's plans to make ebook selling accessible to smaller players.

But even so, the indie share of all books sold on Amazon.co.uk is far smaller than in the US, where indies sell well over 38 % of the ebooks sold on Amazon.com.

I believe the fear is that as Amazon gets more of a stranglehold on the ebook market, they may exert more pressure on suppliers to sell at lower prices and take a smaller percentage.

To cover the costs involved in running the site, I started selling small PDF ebooks containing lists of freelance writing markets in various niches.

In the UK, Big Five ebooks on average sell for prices that are only 50 % more than Small / Medium publisher UK ebooks, and just slightly over double what UK indie ebooks are selling for.

Amazon sold out of its first Kindle units in under six hours and continued to dominate the small but growing ebook space throughout 2008.

The small handful of Big Five authors with Top - 100 UK ebooks who were also selling well in the US were names that would surprise no one: Robert Galbraith, Lee Child, E L James, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, Andy Weir, Jojo Moyes, and Paula Hawkins.