Sentences with phrase «take for ebook sales»

Instead of accepting the 25 percent royalty that most authors take for ebook sales, she now keeps ALL the royalties for Harry Potter ebooks and audiobooks.

Not exact matches

Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.

Take for instance the findings of Nielsen BookData compiled in its latest report, Understanding the E-book Consumer that has revealed a 9 % decline in sales of ebooks in May over the same period a month ago in the UK.

That is, your contract may say that your rights will revert to you after your book goes out of print, but if you have an ebook, the publisher takes that to mean that as long as an ebook is for sale anywhere, the book is still in print.

Four years after that ereader went to market, digtal books topped sales of paperbacks for the first time — and nobody was taking notes in their ebook margins.

Essentially, B&N is willing to take a deeper cut on hardware sales now for a longer - term gain in ebook sales, and ultimately a greater share of the UK ereading market.

Also although people are saying eBook sales are tiny here I am not so convinced for the reasons you set out above, and once economic recovery starts to take hold later in 2011/2012 this market is going in one direction only.

Graphicly, a former digital comics distributor that now offers a similar self - publishing service, will publish for free on the web (and take 30 % of sales as its share) but charges $ 150 to make the comic into an ebook and $ 500 to create an app.

Graphicly, a former digital comics distributor that now offers a similar self - publishing service, will publish for free on the web (and take 30 % of sales as their share) but charges $ 150 to make the comic into an ebook and $ 500 to create an app.

In an even bolder move, Rowling published the ebooks through her own site only a few weeks ago and gave several other online retail booksellers the take - it - or - leave - it deal of a lifetime: other retailers» customers can go to their favorite online book sites to purchase the books, which diverts them to Pottermore for the sale, then the original retailers will still send the ebooks to the consumers» e-reader devices without requiring the downloading to a computer and transferring via cable that many customers have to rely on when purchasing books from sites other than the one that markets their e-readers.

With the creation of Project Gutenberg in the 1970s, digital reading has actually been a viable publishing option for nearly forty years, yet only in 2010 did the industry take off in the current state of ebook sales.

And at only a 15 % royalty rate for ebooks sold through Smashwords, the platform offers the authors a greater percentage of their sales price in royalty than platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.

While ebook sales take off, the sale of ereaders in Russia are steadily declining as customers show a marked preference for tablet computers.

Note Hachette author Douglas Preston to the WSJ on the morality of taking 100 % of the ebook sales: «My publisher gave me a very large advance for the book they are about to publish.

Note that they take a cut from the sales of your book for featuring your ebook in their online store.

Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that came about with the enhanced ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital over print?

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

All of these allegations seem to stem from sales that took place leading up to 2004, well before Harlequin established its ebook imprint, Carina Press, a digital publisher that led the way among publishers for offering unheard of author royalties, doing away with advances in exchange for higher sales payouts, and a radically new output of titles each month.

It took four years for U.S. ebook sales to overtake print sales.

The person who wants a dedicated reading device is annoyed by people pretending that multi-purpose devices are better for reading — when they could just take solace in the fact that more ebook sales will lead to lower ebook prices.

Hachette could easily play hardball with Amazon by taking out an ad campaign whose message was, «Amazon won't sell you our books — so we're holding a 50 % sale for anyone who wants to switch to buying ebooks from Apple, Google, Kobo or Nook.»»

With more than half the population using smartphones — a number that continues to grow almost exponentially — QR codes offer a new way for you to market your ebook and take advantage of this innovative method to increase your ebook sales.

Given the leaked product pages for the new Sony PRS - T2 ebook reader that turned up on J&R.com Thursday night (they've since been taken down) and the fact the PRS - T1 is no longer for sale on Sony's website, there is a very good chance that Sony will make an official announcement about the release of the PRS - T2 this upcoming week.

After all, why would give up 70 % of the takings for less than 25 % of the takings - I'll refer you to Amy Shojai's blog post about legacy Ebook publishing for the numbers: http://amyshojai.com/2011/05/17/tuesday-tips-kindle-ization-2-brass-ring-or-lead-balloon/ Now if someone comes along, and can help me increase my sales by x % at y % cost, so that I increase my profits by z % as Joe put it, I'd be crazy not do go with them.

Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin's response has been to order Amazon to lock down the ebooks that libraries acquired — using their precious and dwindling collections budgets — so that patrons can no longer check them out (Update: Amazon says Penguin and Overdrive, the e-book lending service, took the action without Amazon's involvement.

Often we have clients who have been in the writing game for quite some time and are interested in taking a novel from their backlist and turning it into an eBook for sale at Amazon, Nook, Kobo, and other eBook platforms.

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.

Take advantage of this fact by tacking on a low - key sales pitch for your eBook.

For the past two years or so, I have been pointing out that while magazine digital edition circulation has been stagnant (or even declining), and eBooks sales have been either falling (if you believe the major publishers) or else growing more slowly (when you take into account Amazon and self - publishing), something else has also been going on: library systems are moving toward digital collections.

For all the exasperation some of us may feel at our in ability to really know whether ebook sales are «flattening,» still growing, or sliding backward, what may be more important at the stage in which Wednesday's debate took place are the points being projected in curious parallel:

Of course, you can already access catalogues of ebooks for sale from within iPhone apps like Stanza but this method essentially takes you to a third party store with no cut going to Apple.

Many indies have seen a similar drop in audiobook sales as the subscription model takes hold and listeners can get audiobooks for cheap if they own the ebook.»

As with previous reports, the data takes a hard look at projected sales and author earnings by pulling data for over 120,000 ebooks off Amazon's product pages.

If it takes root and spreads to this part of the world, it will create its own issues for budding ebook retailers, not just by restricting their ability to set selling prices and margins but by greatly complicating operations so that sales, taxes etc can be attributed directly to publishers.

Generally, it takes about six to eight weeks from the time you submit your final manuscript to the time your ebook becomes available for sale on resellers» websites.

Sorry for the sales pitch, but it seems appropriate in this case, because with all these incredibly specific questions, I would recommend you take a closer look at my book «Zen of eBook Formatting.»

I knew I was going to launch the rest of my books in KDP Select so I could take advantage of the way Kindle Unlimited borrows count as sales (for more details, see my earlier post on Kindle Unlimited: Why Ebooks Not Enrolled Are at a Disadvantage), so the only reason I was putting Book 1 in the other stores was so it would be made free on Amazon.

Though it wasn't mentioned, Good eReader foresees Kobo taking a 15 - 30 % cut from the sale of each book on their eBook store, which seems to be the going rate for e-stores nowadays.

Depending on the length of the ebook conversion queue, it usually takes about five minutes from the time you upload your book until it appears for sale on the Smashwords home page.

Each borrow appears to affect ebook ranking just as a sale does, so we have to take the borrow - to - sales rate into account for our earnings projection.

Bricks and mortar, delivering 20 cents of profit for each publisher dollar, is a hugely less profitable sector for publisher than ebook sales, taking place only online.

The publishing firms surveyed for the study reported that, when taking into account their entire digital catalogues, 46 % of their available ebooks saw no sales in 2016.

Pronoun distributes eBooks to Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play, and it does not charge for services, nor does it take cuts of eBook sales.

«The publishing firms surveyed for the study reported that, when taking into account their entire digital catalogs, 46 percent of their available ebooks saw no sales in 2016.»