Not exact matches
This means that, unless a buyer clicks into Pottermore.com
through a
vendor's site, the
vendor does not receive profit from the sale of the
ebook.
For those who don't know, DRM (or «digital rights management»), is the software programming used by various
ebook vendors that causes their
ebooks to only be readable
through their devices or apps.
Since then, library
ebooks have been provided
through siloed, vertically integrated systems in which users can discover and borrow books from a given
vendor only in that
vendor's website and apps.
These prices will be in effect
through the end of March, and apply to the major
ebook vendors where I sell as well as to my Square marketplace.
But as with the iBooks store, if you commit to buying from one specific
vendor, you're pretty much locked into buying all your
ebooks from that
vendor unless you're willing to go
through the necessary trouble to manage your books outside their ecosystems.
Indie authors and self - pubbers can now publish directly on Kobo's site, without going
through Smashwords or another
ebook distribution
vendor.
Some of them are only applied when the
ebook is loaded
through the
vendor's service, not when opened directly by an app (I'm looking at you Kobo).
My
ebooks are distributed around the world
through these
vendors.
Flipkart, newshunt and rockstand are some of the local
ebook vendors but they behave more like scribd, you can only read the
ebooks through the app, no freedom to download your
ebook anywhere, one of the main reason I went with Kobo and not Amazon.
And of course authors and publishers can sell books online
through major retailers such as Amazon, both by uploading
ebooks and by using print - on - demand or
vendor programs to sell to consumers.
All
eBook readers will come with heavy and draconian DRM (as mandated by the book agency) until one
vendor (also with heavy and draconian DRM) significantly corners the market
through a beautifully easy to use device, tied in store and large volume of works.
For those buying
through one of our other selected
vendors, you will already be purchasing an
ebook in the EPUB format, the most common format worldwide.
You can embed the affiliate buy links for any
vendor as long as the affiliate link is for the
eBook edition at the same
vendor (e.g. the Kindle edition
eBooks sold
through Amazon have only Amazon affiliate links).
BB
eBooks voices our concern
through immediate press release that the major
vendors must come up with a solution to prevent this from happening.
This is also publishing on Amazon and has all the benefits mentioned above, but when you publish
through KDP Select, you are not allowed to publish your
ebook on any other
vendor site.
As mentioned above in the section about Smashwords as a retailer, you can also distribute your
ebook through Smashwords to Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, Scribd, libraries, and many smaller
ebook vendors.
your
ebook available
through, most of them are either difficult or impossible to create
vendor accounts with, and so it is important to use a distributor / aggregator to get your
That way you may sell print books
through CreateSpace, IngramSpark / Lightning Source, and your own website, and sell
eBooks via Amazon, Smashwords, iBooks and other
vendors, all at the same time.
It includes well known retailers
vendors such as Amazon and lesser known
vendors such as NetLibrary and Overdrive that distribute
eBooks through library sales programs.
Kobo
vendors will receive a 70 % or 45 % royalty rate on each
eBook sold
through Kobo Books, depending on the price of their
eBook and the territory in which the
eBook is sold.
It will allow all the libraries that have purchased
ebooks from more than one
vendor, including OverDrive, 3M's Cloud Library, and Baker & Taylor's Access 360 product, to seamlessly serve all those collections
through a single application.
In a pilot project that began in November, the member libraries deposited a total of $ 100,000 to access a shared collection of about 16,000
ebooks through vendor EBL.
EPUB and MOBI files are for
vendors and personal use only: When BB
eBooks provides you with your EPUB and MOBI files of your
eBooks, we recommend not distributing these
through email to friends, fans, and reviewers.
The outcome is a variety now offered
through a diverse range of
ebook vendors.