Sentences with phrase «than ebook publishing»

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.

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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 eboPublishing that will lead to the publishing of no less than 20 million ebopublishing 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 inebooks 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 ineBooks 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 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.
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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.
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