Even if you are just aiming at the US market there are myriad
smaller ebook stores not served by Smashwords, and internationally far, far more.
Irish readers can now buy ebooks from Amazon, Apple, Kobo and several other
smaller ebook stores.
People probably don't realize just how much the Agency Model hurts
smaller ebook stores.
The smaller ebook stores get hurt a lot as their ability to compete on price gets taken away.
Add to it the much
smaller ebook store at B & N, and the customer support issue, which you mentioned, and it is clear that Kindle wipes the floor with nook.
Not exact matches
It is true that there are many more
eBook stores than the four majors but generally speaking they represent a
small fraction of all sales for most authors, and especially new authors.
Since the launch of eSentral, several independent
stores have opened up aiming for a
smaller submarket and offering
ebooks both in local languages and English.
With an eight - hour notice, all of these titles disappeared from our
store as well as the
stores of all other
small ebook sellers.
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.
If a customer wanted to support their nearest location, they could buy
eBooks and by using a special referral code, the
store would get a
small commission.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: # 1,350 Books sold per day: 104 Kindle
Store > Kindle
eBooks > Business & Money > Entrepreneurship &
Small Business > Home - Based
The iBooks
store is known to be the Mikey of
ebook publishing platforms — rejecting epub files for
small formatting issues that are not a problem to any of the others.
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 ot
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 ot
Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.
To offset this, NYPL will be introducing BUY IT NOW links that will allow customers to buy the book from their favorite
ebook store and the library will see a
small royalty in return.
But as more and more companies announce higher profits in their digital content divisions and staggering
ebook sales cross almost every genre, book
stores — both major chains and
small town locations — are having to look for more ways to stay afloat.
The difference is that while Barnes & Noble has an extensive
eBook store and a relatively
small Android app
store, Amazon already has a fairly well established app
store, one of the industry's largest selections of
eBooks, and also an MP3 music
store and digital video marketplace.
Once customer's have clicked through and purchased your
eBook, use your email newsletter to give them incentives for reviewing your
eBook; perhaps a
small gift voucher for your online
store (if you already have other products for sale), a discount voucher for a department
store, or even a special freebie download such as a workbook or extra product you may have created.
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
And remember that most readers will see my book displayed as a
small thumbprint on their mobile device when they are browsing online
ebook stores.
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.
The only real issue is that, despite the odd bargain, none of Kobo's
eBook sources rivals Amazon's Kindle
store for price on a wide range of books, with — based on an admittedly
small sample - many books available on Kindle at # 5.49 or less appearing on the Kobo or WH Smith
stores for # 6.99 or more.
However, that rate has declined due to the increased proportion of online sales and
ebook sales (no or minimal returns)-- not to mention
smaller, more conservative orders from chain
stores.
Most
small publishers and authors will use the Kobo Writing Life service to sell their
eBooks in the Kobo
store.
Most
small publishers and authors will use the NOOK Press service to sell their
eBooks in the B&N
store.
PocketBook also has their own global
ebook store called Bookland, but the selection is pretty
small at this point.
So far, there are altogether paid and free 35
eBooks in the
store — a
small number compared to the millions in the Western languages.
Although the primary focus of Smashwords business is
ebook distribution to major retailers and library providers, they've always operated their own
small store.
What if a
small upstart company comes out with the best
eBook reader device on the planet, built around open standards, so you are not tied to buying content from their
store?
They charge a
small up - front fee of $ 199 for formatting and placement of the
ebook in the main
store structures (Amazon Kindle, Apple iBook, B&N Nook, and Sony Reader).
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.