This closed
system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or app they choose.
Not exact matches
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.
Adobe DPS is basically the
system that hundreds
of magazine and enhanced
eBook companies use to
sell and distribute content.
EditionGuard provides customers freedom with
eBook selling tools that are easy to use and customize, built on top
of an industry standard DRM
system for security.
All along, Apple has maintained that it began the iBookstore simply to meet the needs
of consumers and that each
of the five publishers investigated by the DoJ had separately decided to switch to a different
system of pricing, all
of which resulted in Amazon no longer being able to
sell bestselling
ebooks at $ 9.99.
Obviously, a
system that directly tracks the sale
of each
ebook (like the ISBN) is much more accurate, as long as all books
sold have such a tracker.
HighWire, which was founded in 1995 and is a part
of the Stanford University library
system, partners with a variety
of sources like universities, publishers, and professional organizations to publish scholarly journals,
ebooks, and more, while Tizra's web - based platform makes book discovery and book
selling a more streamlined process.
Which is where I realised I needed an ISBN number — the international
system of book identification, which isn't essential for an
ebook but if you want to get it listed in publishing databases,
sell it on Apple, get it into as many
ebook stores as possible, it a basic requirement.
EditionGuard is committed to supporting independent authors and publishers, leveling the playing field by providing you freedom with
eBook selling tools that are easy to use and customize, built on top
of an industry standard DRM
system for security.
I suspect that if you are going to try the
ebook market as a way to
sell your work and Amazon make it easy (and they do) then you will push their
system to your readers helping to spread the word
of Kindle rather than the word
of ebooks in general.