Besides the WORDsearch platform, the first
trade ebook format I mastered was the Kindle format.
Not exact matches
The business models right now do not provide significant margin or motivation for developing the
eBook as a
format further in the general
trade market.
We publish all our titles in hardcover,
trade paperback, and
ebook formats (both Kindle and ePub), as well as audiobook and foreign - language editions.
Indie publisher; including book cover design, manuscript layout, ISBN procurement, with
trade paperback and
ebook formats supported through Amazon.
Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good
ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or
trade paperback version rather than the mass paperback
format.
Laura English is available in
trade soft - cover and
ebook formats through Stillpoint Digital Press, through IndieBound and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
Random House Mondadori's divisions publish adult and children's fiction and nonfiction in print hardcover,
trade, mass market paperback, and
ebook formats, with such imprints as Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Lumen, Mondadori, Debate, Sudamericana, Montena, Beascoa, and Rosa dels vents, among others.
Blackhall aims to have all its new
trade titles available in
ebook format by the end of 2011 and is working on a plan for its backlist.
But for my next
trade book, I'll go with a traditional publisher and insist that they spend as much time designing the
ebook format (s) as well the print book.
The title, which went live today on Amazon's Kindle
ebook store is the first of the publisher's
trade books to be made available in digital
format and is the first of three
ebooks in the pipeline.
If the project didn't fund, there would still be a book, but it would only be released in
trade paperback,
ebook, and audio
formats.
Bill McCoy is Executive Director of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the
trade and standards group responsible for the EPUB standard interchange and delivery
format for
eBooks and other digital publications.
We don't know if the reason
trade paper sales have gone down (which Nowell reports) because most people don't like the
format or because the number of retail outlets carrying
trade paper books has gone down (witness the loss of many chain bookstore locations, where most
trade papers were sold) or because given a choice between
trade paper and
ebook, the average reader will choose
ebook.
The jist of the matter is that in a fair
trade scenario there should be a consistent
ebook format that all e-readers can adhere to.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the 204 - year - old publishing house that has known a few great names in its day (think Edgar Allan Poe, for example), saw a threefold rise in its
ebook sales in the first three quarters of this year, which still only brought the percentage of their professional and
trade sales in digital
format up to eleven percent.
There are some
trade - offs (again, see below), but your
ebook needs to be in a
format that can be sold and read as widely as possible to enjoy success.
Flying Pen Press publishes fiction and nonfiction in a wide variety of genres and topics, primarily in
trade paperback and
ebook formats (currently, Flying Pen Press does not publish any of the following: poetry, erotica, children's, young adult, Chr...
Grace Awards Open to original novels presenting a Christian worldview written in English, published in hard cover,
trade paperback, or in
Ebook format.
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.
Open to original novels presenting a Christian worldview written in English, published in hard cover,
trade paperback, or in
Ebook format.
What we also highlighted, which was generally omitted by others in their zeal to promote the growth of
ebooks, was that
Trade paperbacks continued to outrank both
formats, in Q1 2011 and Q1 2012, by a healthy lead.
eBook Versions offer authors world wide fixed fee - based production of print - on - demand paperbacks from # 295.00, and of ebooks in Kindle and epub formats from # 95.00, from typewritten manuscripts, text file documents or previously printed volumes, with guaranteed listing of paperback titles by Amazon online stores serving the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain; and of ebook titles by the 13 Amazon Kindle Stores, 51 iTunes iBookstores, Kobo Books and our partner trade distribu...
eBook Versions offer authors world wide fixed fee - based production of print - on - demand paperbacks from # 295.00, and of
ebooks in Kindle and epub
formats from # 95.00, from typewritten manuscripts, text file documents or previously printed volumes, with guaranteed listing of paperback titles by Amazon online stores serving the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain; and of
ebook titles by the 13 Amazon Kindle Stores, 51 iTunes iBookstores, Kobo Books and our partner trade distribu...
ebook titles by the 13 Amazon Kindle Stores, 51 iTunes iBookstores, Kobo Books and our partner
trade distribu... more
If
Ebooks were indeed sustaining and just a
format change, we should be seeing the old order of
trade publishing flourishing, we are not, our bookstores are dying.
We offer not only
ebook production for all
formats, but also daily distribution to all
trade partners, as well as deals and marketing so that each title gets the attention it deserves.
Mark is the author of paranormal thrillers The Spellcaster's Grimoire and Mystic Witch, published by ImaJinn Books in
trade paperback and
eBook formats.
If I buy the printed book new at full price, I have the option of
trading it when I am through for another book... If I choose to buy the same book in an
eBook format — that's it... I have the book forever if I want it (well if the technology doesn't change and leave me unable to read it anymore).
EBSCO's
ebooks are PDFs, but Breen said the company is building out its ability to process the EPUB
format, which is how the majority of
trade books are delivered today.
If
ebooks become the dominant
format for reading
trade books then the need for traditional publishers is threatened.
As an ISBN is specific to the
format of the book — hardcopy,
trade paperback and
eBook versions can't share the same ISBN — an author will need to buy a block of ISBNs if they want their book to be published in several
formats.
We publish in both
trade paperback and several kinds of
ebook formats.
ePub is currently tipped to be the next big
ebook format, if only because it's backed by a loose consortium of publishers, writers, and programmers, who are tied together in the IDPF, or what is known as a «stardards and
trade organization for the digital publishing industry».