We think the efficiencies
of selling digital books should not only accrue to publishers but should also accrue to authors.
It is for this exact reason (along with many others) that Amazon
sells digital books for less than the paperback books.
Right now, most of our pro members have attained their success by
selling digital books at low cost through distributors like KDP, Kobo and Ingram.
One of the drawbacks in the e-reader industry is that no major online retailer actually
sells digital books on any Apple products.
Jeff Orr, Research Director at ABI Research stated «Unlike other tablet manufacturers, Amazon views hardware as a commodity and emphasizes focus on its recurring digital content revenue stream, generated
from selling digital books, music, TV, and video programming to owners of its devices.
Walmart will also
sell digital book cards in stores, making it possible to carry a wider selection of books and it will make it easier to give ebooks as gifts.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that «Over the past year, Apple and Goodreads had begun discussing integrating Goodreads» service, which allows users to share and rate what they are reading, into Apple's iBookstore,
which sells digital books, according to people familiar with the matter.
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selling a Digital Book after we have commenced doing so.»
The development comes on the same day as the launch of Google eBooks, which will allow independent bookshops to sell digital books via Google ' s e-books platform.
The growing popularity of ereaders, tablets, smartphones, and sites that
sell digital books gives independent book authors a chance to hit the mainstream without a traditional book publishing deal.
This year the Book Walker award goes to the
top selling digital book of 2014 to Mamare Touno's fantasy adventure series Log Horizon.
«Publishers have been collectively nervous of applying the same model for
selling digital books as for their printed counterparts, when it comes to selling to libraries,» the independent panel concluded in its review.
Principle 1: [Anyone can
sell digital books] Google will partner with all interested retailers, so you'll be able to buy books wherever you like — at an online site or your neighborhood bookstore.
Basically, you pledge not to
sell your digital book outside of Amazon for 90 days, and they allow you to promote your book for free for five of those days.
Many European
companies sell digital books with watermarks, which makes it infinity easier to give out a copy of your book, while still preserving ownership of the original.
It's e-book sales that matter, since Amazon is believed to be subsidising Kindle prices out of the money it makes
from selling digital books.
I wish that Logos would become competitive here and
sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle eBooks.
Jeff Trachtenberg discusses Google plan to
start selling digital books this summer, setting the stage for a battle of the online behemoth booksellers.
This will result in dramatic discounts from retailers that
sell digital books in Canada such as Amazon, Apple and Kobo.
It gives us the tools to create and
sell digital books; print and sell paperback copies on demand; add author pages and even market books.
This has prompted companies like Pottermore to craft interactive narratives for children in addition to
selling the digital books.
It only makes sense to
sell digital books and use the money to increase the number of titles they can carry.
They sold digital books on an individual basis and built a number of apps for Android, iOS and dedicated devices like the Kindle Fire.
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google and Apple used to be based out of Luxembourg to
sell their digital books, since they could get away with charging 3 % VAT on e-books in every country in Europe.
We publish, promote and
sell digital books both directly and through online retailers such as Amazon (for Kindle), Barnes & Noble (for Nook) and Apple's iTunes (for both standard and interactive multi-touch ebooks).
The Buy it Now button was pioneered by Penguin, who petitioned Overdrive, 3M and Baker and Taylor to develop e-commence solutions to allow libraries to
sell digital books and then the library, publisher and distributor would each earn a commission.
Self - publishers do not have to normally worry about this sort of drama, whether they are printing physical copies of their books via Createspace or
selling their digital book.
Quote: «Self - publishers do not have to normally worry about this sort of drama, whether they are printing physical copies of their books via Createspace or
selling their digital book.