Print publishing is more complicated, costly and time - consuming
than ebook publishing, and although print books still account for the majority of book industry sales, many self - published authors sell more ebooks than print books.
There's perhaps never in human history been a market more free and less in need of government intervention
than ebook publishing.
Not exact matches
Uli is also the co-founder of Big Boost Media, which helps people stay current with the changing
publishing market and do more
than simply produce and distribute great
eBooks.
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.
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?
According to Alexander Shipetin, head of department of children's books and magazines of AST
publishing house and the former vice-president of the Russian Book Union, currently,
ebooks are estimated at no more
than 0.5 % of the total volume of the Russian market.
In practical terms, this means that many traditionally
published eBooks are more expensive
than their paper counterparts.
> Map out your writing empire, including all the things you love to do > Start setting up and implementing the systems and structures you need to support your empire (including an author website, if you don't already have one) > Overhaul your writing life so you're aligned with and set up for the success you want to create > Get your nonfiction
eBook written and
published (at least one, but possibly more
than one, if you're up for it) > Grow your following > Sell more books
Tom has taught more
than 40,000 authors how to write,
publish and market their books like professionals through his online training courses, including
Ebook Publishing School, a free training program that shows authors how to
publish and market their books professionally.
This agreement will make more
than 5,000 technical, medical, and professional titles available for
ebook lending; more
than 700 of these titles are recently
published works.
The company also announced recent tie - ups with many of the leading
publishing houses in the country, which has allowed it to add more
than 1,000 more
ebooks to its growing catalogue that comprises of over 2 million titles.
Many Indie Authors now have beautiful
ebook covers designed by talented artists, which are much more appealing
than a multi-color background with a white text title, or a hatchet in a wall on a traditionally
published cover.
The most important reason to buy Indie Author
ebooks is the majority of what readers spend actually goes to the author rather
than to a
publishing conglomerate.
According to figures
published by Russia: Beyond the Headlines, 70 % of Russians read
eBooks, nearly a quarter more
than the number who did a year ago.
Apabi Chinese
eBooks are
published in Mainland China and its content emphasises more scholarly rather
than leisure reading content.
McDonald has entered into a partnership with DK
Publishing that will lead to the publishing of no less than 20 million ebo
Publishing that will lead to the
publishing of no less than 20 million ebo
publishing of no less
than 20 million
ebook titles.
It gives you far higher per - book earnings
than traditionally
published authors are receiving (even those whose
ebooks are selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally
published ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less
than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
Michael Prescott — more
than 800,000 self -
published ebooks sold (Dec 2011) Chris Culver — over 550,000 (Dec 2011) Heather Killough - Walden — over 500,000 books sold (Dec 2011) Selena Kitt — «With half a million
ebooks sold in 2011 alone» J.A. Konrath — more
than 500,000
ebooks sold (November 2011) Stephen Leather — close to 500,000 books sold (Nov 2011)
Like the
publishing process itself, our service covers much more
than just book layout or
ebook conversion (though we do that too — you'll get Kindle and EPUB
ebook editions and, if you want, a printed edition made available worldwide.)
Today, her self -
published Gansett Island Series, roundly rejected by traditional publishers, has sold more
than 2.5 million
ebooks and is still going strong at book 16.
Resources like Lulu, the leader in self -
publishing, make it easier
than ever for authors to take advantage of the great opportunities
eBooks bring to sell more books and reach more readers — absolutely free.
PublishDrive is a Hungarian company that will
publish your
eBook in more
than 400 stores including Apple iBooks, Google Play Books, Kindle, Scribd, Barnes & Noble, plus 240k digital libraries (schools, universities, public libraries) for 10 % after net sales.
Face it: with more
than 4,000 new
ebooks published daily, the chance that your novel will sell big is slim.
Print and
Ebooks are all part of the
publishing process... but
Ebooks make self
publishing easier
than ever before.
Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self -
publishing several of his unpublished novels in
ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own
than with a traditional publisher, became indie
publishing's most vocal champion.
Thanks to the online self -
publishing revolution, anyone can now
publish an
eBook or other digital book more easily
than ever before in history.
As someone who wrote his first book in 1994 and
published his first
ebook in 1997, I've felt this particular pang of fear more
than once in the last 20 years.
While the number that believe
ebooks are held to a lower standard than print actually increased over 2014 (12.8 percent versus 9.8 percent), that might be because the bar is rising, and most respondents believe that the quality of digital publishing continues to improve, with 52.5 percent rating most eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 in
ebooks are held to a lower standard
than print actually increased over 2014 (12.8 percent versus 9.8 percent), that might be because the bar is rising, and most respondents believe that the quality of digital
publishing continues to improve, with 52.5 percent rating most
eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 in
eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 in 2014.
Robert: Well, you and Joe are in a different league
than most of the other writers thinking about self -
publishing ebooks.
What I really wanted to title this post was here are five ways a print - on - demand book can help an author make more money
than if they
published only an
eBook, and CreateSpace is the easiest and most pain - free way to produce a book in print.
We recommend that you
publish an
ebook in addition to print version (s), so as not to limit your readership, and you'll save money if you have the same book cover designed for both formats at once rather
than starting over if you decide to add an
ebook version later.
But it's important to remember that there are FAR fewer audiobooks
published each year
than ebooks, so the chances of standing out are that much greater.
(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 au
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 au
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 authors.
The main purpose of our new report, «
Ebook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those mo
Ebook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between
Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to tho
Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book
publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to tho
publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more
than 100,000
ebooks and audiobooks of more
than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new
ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those mo
ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those models.
The courts have held that this was illegal, while
publishing houses believe that some
ebooks, in fact, should command prices equal — or higher —
than their printed counterparts.
eBooks especially cost almost nothing to produce and are far easier to
publish than many people believe.
I find it curious that the
ebook royalty rate is 50 % for direct sales, lower
than the 70 % rate most self -
published authors get for their e-books on Amazon.
I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make more selling his
ebooks at $ 2.99
than he would get in royalties off a $ 24 HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional
publishing.
After thanking their patrons The Author's Guide to
Ebook Bundling, More
Than Monsters, and What Sells Books, the pair of
publishing pundits talked tips on short stories, Amazon Author Central, and writing on planes.
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.
The World
eBook Library Collection shelves more
than 2,000,000 + PDF
eBooks in 100 + languages, containing 125 of the finest
eBook and eDocument collections
published on the Internet today.
Founders Mark and Renee D'Antoni have more
than five decades of combined experience in print and digital
publishing production including manuscript editing, book and magazine design, typesetting, layout, and
ebook coding and development.
Even though
publishing both print and
ebook versions of a book is financially and technologically more feasible
than it's ever been in history, there is one case where
ebooks might be a better choice.
I am wondering if you would consider
publishing your recent statement about
ebooks on a platform other
than Facebook?
Amazon highlighted 3 authors out of the 150 self -
published authors that sold more
than 100,000
eBooks in 2013.
More
than 50 % of all traditionally
published book sales of any format in the US now happen on Amazon.com, not to mention an even higher percentage of
eBooks.
If we discount the statistical anomalies (like my posts debunking a few myths on the Icelandic political situation which are the most popular pieces I've ever written, unfortunately) an
ebook post tends to get more
than ten times more traffic
than a post on any other subject
published at a roughly similar time of day and day of week.
The «big idea,» of course, is that authors should view
publishing ebooks on Kindle from the long - term, rather
than the short - term, point of view.
Canada's Toronto Star, which has
published more
than 20
ebooks fashioned from investigative feature articles and special reports, is one of them.
In America, Amanda Hocking has gone from selling more
than a million self -
published vampire and zombie
ebooks to signing a $ 2 million deal with a leading publisher.