Sentences with phrase «smaller than ebooks»

The thing is: the amount of ebooks available with such audio feature is smaller than ebooks offered.
The royalties I'm getting on my paperback sales are much smaller than my ebook royalties, too.

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If you would like to help out a small family, rather than large business, I am happy to announce that you can now get my books as a high quality ebook that works on any platform.
But when I tried an another method just for a small change sorry to say it proved be real effective than this.When I browsed through the internet for more weight loss in a safe and effective manner I came across Master Cleanse Secrets eBook but I didn't believe it at first but I thought of giving it a try because of the success stories of peoples who used it.
They are the world's largest ebook distributor for self - published ebook authors and have published more than 420,000 titles by over 120,000 authors and small independent presses.
Those learning materials are documents of a smaller size than a regular eBook, and they can be downloaded, and used for free.
I'd love to have an agent if they were able to address the changes in the industry as they occur, rather than turning only to older models of publishing, e.g. arranging eBook contracts in which the eBooks are overpriced and the author receives a small royalty — ugh, who would want that?
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.
One of the problems is that ebooks have become so large a market, more than $ 1 billion in the US alone in 2013, and have grown so quickly, that even large increases now appear quite small in percentage terms, and modest increases seem tiny.
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.
I'm starting to build up a small library of ebooks from sources other than Kindle and Kobo in anticipation of this device.
I'd guess that ebook piracy is a much smaller issue than people make it out to be right now.
(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 $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
According to Tracy, most of the paperback sales are in trade paperback, rather than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the ebook.
The number of ebooks sold was smaller than they expected so the payment was increased.
In less than two years, in fact, the market share of paid unit sales between indie (mainly self - publishing, but includes small presses) and Big 5 eBooks has more than inverted.
Considering the relatively small percentage of people who read more than 12 books / year, ebooks» primary selling points — portability and space - saving — aren't all that compelling outside of the conference circuit.
Most of that fluff and blather is coming from new intermediaries who take a smaller cut than traditional publishers, while putting your eBook on a virtual shelf where no one who doesn't already know it exists will ever find it.
An ebook reader is small and light, and less fragile than a paperback.
With eBooks prices foreseeable coming down, as smaller publishing houses can sell books cheaper than any other store, authors, and smaller publishing companies can get wider exposure which is a boon to everyone from the reader, to the author.
Despite its position as one of the smaller ebook aggregators, XinXii already hosts a catalog of over 25,000 ebook titles from more than 15,000 authors, with new content being added to the collection daily.
It is also important to note that more than 85 % of small publisher eBook sales come via Amazon.
With dedicated e-ink readers such as the Kindle ($ 69) or the Kindle Paperwhite ($ 119) being much cheaper than that, the choice could boil down to a cheaper but a bigger full - fledged ebook reader or a smaller and hence more portable smartphone add - on that costs a bit more.
I'd guess midlist author paper sales on bookstore shelves are much smaller, percentage wise, than their ebook sales (legacy or self - pub).
Repeating Paragraph Returns — Never use more than four consecutive paragraph returns (that is, hard returns, created by pressing the ENTER key) to arrange text on the page (this creates blank ebook pages on small - screened e-reading devices).
While publishers are the ones who set the price of digital editions of children's books, it's disconcerting that a fixed - page children's ebook costs so prohibitively more than some of the app books that smaller publishers are developing for children that include such features as human - narration, highlighted read along text, touch - screen word pronunciation and foreground spelling, interactive word games, and more.
Fewer than 700 Big Five authors and fewer than 500 small - or - medium publisher authors who debuted in the last 10 years are now earning $ 25,000 a year or more on Amazon — from all of their hardcover, paperback, audio and ebook editions combined.
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The cost - effectiveness will be further aided if Bridgestone can boost its volumes by targeting industrial applications rather than relying on the still - small ebook reader market.
At least that makes more sense than having outdated sections for large and small ebook readers that mostly only exist used anymore...
WiFi has a much shorter range than 3G (typically just enough to reach around the home) but several advantages: It's free (included in the broadband internet cost you're already paying), and it's faster than 3G but this is less important for ebooks which are currently quite small files.
Print, ebooks, traditional publishers (large and small) and self - published authors will all coexist, as part of a future that is more messy and fragmented than the industry we know today.
There's plenty of introductory freebies on offer as well as host of public domain novels to download and the big clear screen makes it a pleasure to use as a mini ebook reader and certainly significantly better than a smaller smartphone size even if you do still end up turning pages a little too often.
I don't actually know this but my guess is that the audience for audiobooks is far smaller than for ebooks and production costs are higher.
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.
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
I use the kindle for reading ebooks and smaller PDF files and it works very well for this, an area where the iPad is capable but the kindle is lighter and easier than the iPad.
At a certain level of success as an author, it makes a lot of sense to go for the much broader print market in large volume than the smaller ebook market with higher average royalties.
Since this page is primarily for the lawyers, feel free to set in a smaller font than the body copy of your eBook / print book.
The only trouble is, the eBook conversion is proceeding a lot slower in the specialty markets than the bestseller markets and since our markets are far smaller to begin with, it may be a long time before eBooks reach critical mass for us.
Though fixed - layout formats have the slight disadvantage of not working across all eBook devices and applications and of not being accepted by some smaller distribution channels, they offer significantly more styling and layout options than reflowable eBooks, including colour backgrounds, multi-column content, and specific fonts.
But the impact on smaller markets is large Take for example Ireland (I could as easily choose the English language markets in Spain, Slovenia or San Marino), where ebook sales are lower than 1 % right now.
Joan is the author of five eBooks on publicity and is quoted in more than 60 books on marketing, public relations and small business.
The offer Amazon makes would be a decent one if Amazon still controlled 80 - 90 % of the ebook market but when you know that Amazon controls less than 60 % in some markets and even in the US, its dominance is not what it used to be, allowing the company exclusivity sounds like a recipe for smaller sales and reduced exposure.
Since advances from publishers for other - than - the - biggest titles are also declining, those next - tier authors will find self - publishing or publishing with smaller houses that pay lower advances but higher ebook royalties an increasingly tempting alternative.
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.
This eBook Collection contains more than 3,460 titles that are freely accessible and a small number of purchased titles.
I do think that right now it may be somewhat easier to succeed with self - epublishing than with self - publishing in general — and specifically, with Kindle publishing — mainly because the ebook market is currently so small.
If the contract clauses don't show Amazon's intentional strategy at sabotaging competitors and are only a well - thought safeguard, then the same train of thought used by the judge in the US case above can not be called on, mainly because Amazon has a much smaller piece of the eBook market share in Europe than it has in the US.
A relatively inexpensive reader, capable of reading multiple file formats, ebooks that are significantly cheaper than their print counterparts — with those elements in place, more people would use ebooks more often, and the publishers still would do print runs (smaller ones, probably) to accomodate that change (and save trees, as well as their own money).
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