Sentences with phrase «than ebooks released»

Each one tends to cost substantially less than ebooks released by major publishers, with titles ranging from $ 2 to $ 5.

Ebooks released along with hardbacks or trades are going to be more expensive than ebooks released along with mass market.

Not exact matches

OverDrive, a company that works with more than 13,000 libraries worldwide to bring library ebook and audiobooks to portable devices and computers, has updated their BlackBerry app to add support for EPUB library ebooks, just in time for the upcoming release of the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Accessing eBooks is now easier than ever before; most publishers are starting to release all of their books in digital format, which makes them more available as well as cheaper to produce.

I've heard figures from big publishers stating that many new releases sell more ebooks than print books.

There are more than 32 million books in print, and some industry observers believe that 50,000 new ebooks get released for Kindle every month.

Additionally, by being selective about what companies would be in on the final release of the ebook editions, Rowling has created her own publishing company solely to oversee the expected galactic - proportion sales of the Potter series, rather than conceding fees as high as 30 % to the current online bookselling giants.

According to a press release on the program, «OverDrive offers libraries and schools the industry's largest and most complete eBook catalog, including Kindle eBooks from more than 800 publishers.

not to mention, the below screen cap suggests there were more than a few sales lost to ebooks, the UK edition and illegal downloads) but it has made the release of the finale an anticipated event.

Since 2008, Smashwords has helped authors around the world release more than 460,000 titles and distribute their work globally to top ebook retailers, subscription services and public libraries.

A few dissatisfied nutters keep sending you support emails because the ebook edition you released is much worse than the print edition because it was a money - losing low - budget production.

With its iPhone version released in 2009 and now enjoying more than a million free downloads per month, the Wattpad has become one of the most popular eBook readers.

But, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal, there are book publishers who are pushing back on the notion of releasing an eBook version of a new book for a price any less than the retail price of the same book's hardback version.

Frequently even months and years after a book's release, the paperback is less expensive than the ebook.

Set a high release price to take advantage of initial demand, then tail that price off until it reaches $ 6, at which point your sale volume should be higher than if that ebook were still sitting at $ 10.

As Joe Konrath has pointed out to me, he got more readers with traditional publishing, but he's making a LOT more money with his independently released ebooks than he ever made in print, and he got a 6 - figure deal once.

The bottom line is that Amazon's eBook market is not yet big enough to cover the losses the top selling indie / self - pubbed authors lose out on by not being widely distributed in physical book stores in the U.S. Of course, this disadvantage is mitigated over time because once the trade publishers stop pushing their new releases, these books» sales typically decline, but indie / self - pubbed authors can keep their market pushes going indefinitely, and they can publish new books more frequently than once a year.

Other than the genre categorization, we also sort our eBooks based on the release date.

In its annual «Entertainment & Media Outlook,» set to be released Wednesday, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) estimates that trade (consumer, not educational or academic) ebooks will drive $ 8.2 billion in sales by 2017 — surpassing projected print book sales, which it thinks will shrink by more than half during that period.

Earlier this year, Author Earnings released a report showing Amazon is far and away the leader, with more than 80 percent of English - language eBook sales worldwide — both indie and traditionally - published — and 91 Continue reading «Choices for Publishing, 2017 Edition»

Even though people like to say that ebooks are forever and that you can continue to earn money from them indefinitely, the natural order of things is for new releases to sell better than older books, especially in the case of a series that's been finished for a couple of years.

One of the greatest adoptions in the early days of digital publishing came quietly from publishers who were reluctant at first to put their new releases into ebook form, but were more than willing to use the «experimental» reading technology for their out - of - print and backlist titles.

The release comes as data from Aptara shows «all but 6 % of trade publishers are currently developing e-books «and that «1 out of 5 eBook publishers generates more than 10 % of their sales from eBooks `.

But Amazon's new release hardbacks are not that much more than their previous ebook price — I routinely get them for $ 12 to $ 14, which is only a couple of bucks more than the ebook.

According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago.

The price of the eBook drops with each treeware release, so that it's always cheaper to buy the eBook than the available paper copy.

For those who want something more than press releases and Trash - TV «coverage,» this no - compromises ebook offers the brutal truth.

But I think we're fast approaching a trade publishing world in which the decision of whether or not to self - publish will be made on a manuscript - by - manuscript basis, and will be no more nor less meaningful than one's choice of whether or not to release in ebook formats.

One of them was released last week and it has already sold more audio books than ebooks this month.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

Back in July, the company's press release Kobo Writing Life announced that more than 17,000 authors have uploaded more than 100,000 eBook titles and sell their eBooks in 184 countries.

So Vibosoft took your needs into consideration and released this powerful ePub Creator to lets you make eBooks from more than 5 popular eBook formats.

I have seen Kindle editions (most often new releases) priced higher than hardback or paperback versions... especially when the ebook is priced at $ 12 USD and up.

Even Google fell at the last hurdle, releasing native ebook reading apps for Apple and Android platforms last year rather than HTML5 web apps for its Google Ebooks system.

So how many infractions of proper file usage have been reported, more than a year and thousands of ebooks since the release of PackaDRM in 2012?

The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers» control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $ 9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases.

If you release free funnel books in eBook rather than print format, the out of pocket costs are minor.

But we do know that back in early 2013 both Amazon and Barnes & Noble separately issued press releases announcing that self - published indie ebooks made up more than 25 % of units sold.

Amazon does not release sales information other than to say it now does a whopping 100 Billion a year when they only did under 20 Billion a year before Kindle eBooks were invented.

With the biggest selection of any ebook store in the UK, you can shop more than 1 million books, including bestsellers and new releases.

Dedicated ebook readers are known for being somewhat more fragile than other mobile devices because of the E Ink display, so it's good to see that trend changing with more durable ereaders like the PocketBook Aqua and waterproof Kobo Aura H2O being released.

The author and commentator Kristine Kathryn Rusch walks us through her surprise at finding a long - awaited new hardcover at Amazon selling for less than the ebook price on its release date.

The last bit of Kindle - related news from the press release is that the U.S. Kindle Store has grown to more than 810,000 ebooks, not counting the millions of free public domain titles.

What I have learned since the release of my ebook in February 2013 was that there is more to selling a book than just writing it and putting it on Amazon.

If it doesn't, be sure to look elsewhere too, because it may be the case that the publisher hasn't released an ebook version of that title, rather than because of a lack of depth to Amazon's listings.

Another tactic is to upload a previous MOBI eBook: the logic being that if the customers get the wrong eBook, they'll blame Amazon rather than the author for releasing an unedited manuscript.

Whether the hardware continues to do well or not, and I sincerely believe that it will be even better than ever with the upcoming release and a fairly steady stream of firmware updates adding new features all the time, Amazon isn't going to be letting go of their grip on the eBook marketplace any time soon.

Pricing an ebook at a discount to the hardcover release means pricing the digital like a tpb (and more than the mass media paperback).

And, she told Publishing Perspectives, it was deemed enough of a success that they are releasing the book in China this Spring, albeit as an app, rather than as an ebook «out of fears of piracy,» she said.

· Barnes & Noble's eBookstore offering its customers seamless access to more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $ 9.99, making it the world's largest selection of eBooks available in one place.