Sentences with phrase «smaller ebook retailers»

Breaking the two most common DRM schemes (Amazon's one, and the Adobe one used by most smaller ebook retailers) requires extracting a key from the Kindle or Adobe software, which requires having a running copy of that software, which isn't available for GNU / Linux (or BSD, OpenSolaris, BeOS or whatever).

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

EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all platforms, as well as access to many smaller eBook retailers, may well be worth the cost.

Not exact matches

With this feature smaller and self publishers have a way distribute ebooks directly to their readers without using existing ebook retailers.

When a retailer discounts an ebook, he is not taking a small loss to move product, because he has paid NOTHING to have that book in his inventory.

It'll be interesting to see how these smaller establishments can compete with large online retailers, especially as ebooks continue increase their market shares.

That final bit is interesting in relation to Google's indie bookseller angle, — a very savvy PR move on their part, partnering with the likes of mega-independent Powell's and smaller retailers like WORD via the ABA's IndieCommerce platform — and the belief that this somehow levels the playing field, as if ebooks have been the issue all along, as opposed to Amazon's perfecting ecommerce while Jeff Bezos ignored the pundits who focused only on his quarterly earnings in the early years.

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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.

«Apple is our No. 2 e-book retailer over the past year — and a strong No. 2,» said Matt Cavnar, co-founder of Vook, which distributes about 5,000 ebooks for authors, small - and medium - sized publishers and its own publishing operations.

Suggesting the ebook retailers clearly differentiate between self - published titles and those that come from an actual multi-author small press doesn't create «artificial barriers to entry.»

There are hundreds of such small online ebook retailers today, and soon there will be thousands.

EBooks obviously have a future, and Smashwords has provided easy access to the big EBook retailers, as well as a number of small ones.

In a climate in which internet start ups come and go every day, how can a brand - new ebook seller plan to compete with the likes of established retailers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or even with smaller - but - popular sites like Smashwords?

Unless * publishers * actively embrace lower prices on ebooks, and start pricing their books low enough for retailers to discount them down to indie levels and still make a small profit, I don't think the indie pricing range ($ 1 - 6) is in as much danger as some folks think it is.

However, I would be happy to pay a smaller sum than the retail price to rent the ebook for my personal use for a short term.

Making it easier for customers to buy and enjoy your ebooks, as well as lowering the barriers for small, independent retailers might, in the long run, be advantageous for everyone involved.

And I would like as a Board member to express more specifically general views of e-distributors, application providers and eBooks retailers, among which several are small businesses in a highly competitive environment.

As mentioned above in the section about Smashwords as a retailer, you can also distribute your ebook through Smashwords to Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, Scribd, libraries, and many smaller ebook vendors.

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.

Our digital books are available in the most popular venues such Amazon Kindle and BN.com, independent venues including Fictionwise and All Romance eBooks, and numerous smaller online retailers that we reach through our digital distributor, Ingram CoreSource.

All the other reader apps tend to follow their lead and since books now represent such a small slice of Amazon's overall revenue it would be great to see some other ebook retailer step up and innovate with a service like this.

They took what was basically a non-existent eBook market that was just Baen Books, All Romance, FictionWise and a couple of smaller retailers like that, and turned it into a consumer product.

Most of the major ebook retail platforms direct small publishers to use their self - serve platforms not everybody who uses them is a solo author publishing his own work.

The usual process is to set a wholesale price based on a discount off the suggested retail price of the ebook or the printed book equivalent (expect smaller discounts than you're used to).

Like an advance, the amount you receive per book sold (to a retailer at the wholesale price) will vary based on many factors, although typically it will be on the smaller side — say 6.5 % to 10 % for print editions (rates differ for paperbacks versus hardcovers) and 25 % for eBooks.

When an eBook priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99 is purchased by a customer with a billing address in the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, United Kingdom (including Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man), Amazon will pay you 70 % of your average retail price for that month's sales, minus a small delivery fee determined by the file size of your book.

The money will be doled out in the form of small credits at ebook retailers.

Although Smashwords is primarily an ebook publishing and distribution platform, we also operate our own small Smashwords.com retail operation.

Although the primary focus of Smashwords business is ebook distribution to major retailers and library providers, they've always operated their own small store.

3) The costs of developing ebook platforms, ebook retailing sites and ebook distribution systems are high, the Irish market is small, while it might have been possible to forecast the potential to gain customers outside of the island, it is a difficult result to actually achieve (which makes EpubDirect's success all the more impressive) which mitigates against anyone investing in them

EditionGuard offers smaller retailers VIP access to the eBook market.

Over the last six going on seven years, Smashwords introduced our free ebook printing press, Meatgrinder, which made it possible for any writer anywhere to publish an ebook in minutes; we opened distribution for the first time to major retailers and library partners that were previously inaccessible to self - published authors; we developed sophisticated yet easy - to - use publishing tools that help writers and small indie presses publish with pride and professionalism; we worked to actively educate our authors and publishers how to leverage best practices to publish with greater success; and we've been fierce (but friendly!)

Gardners Extended Retail Distribution — Gardners powers the online ebook store operations of over 400 small and medium - sized booksellers globally as part of its white label ecommerce and digital content fulfillment & distribution services.

However, Oyster is, of course, a much smaller operation than Amazon's Kindle and widening its business model to retail has got to be a good move with the uncertain and untried economics of ebook subscriptions.