Sentences with phrase «use of ebook retailers»

Toronto - based Kobo and Seattle's Amazon are neck - and - neck in Canadian publishers» use of ebook retailers, BookNet Canada finds, in a new 2016 survey.

When using any of the ebook retailers or distributors, you'll need to use a file formatted according to their specific guidelines.

When using any of the ebook retailers or distributors, you'll have to upload a file that they accept or that is formatted according to their specific guidelines.

Not exact matches

As part of that learning curve, I watched videos on how to use Photoshop so I could make my covers, I studied every how - to - format an ebook article that was available (not as many as there are now), and I got my book up at the various retailers.

So effectively this means there can only be one in - app ebook retailer now, Apple with its iBookStore, giving it a big ease - of - use boost over its competition.

Across Europe, even though local languages may pose the same problems of having very few ebooks available, the widespread use of English as their second language is giving ebook retailers a lucrative sideline in English - language ebooks.

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) used to collect quarterly U.S. trade retail ebook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

If you'd prefer to lessen your administration burden and are willing to give up some control and access to various promotional tools of each ebook retailer (not to mention some of your profits), then you'll want to consider using one of the following ebook distributors.

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.

First we'll discuss the key attributes of each ebook retailer, then which ebook distributors you might prefer to use to reach these retailers.

We use Smashwords to distribute our books to the majority of eBook retailers.

Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.»

Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.

Sometimes called «Digital Restrictions Management» by those who know how it works, it is a method used by retailers of digital products, including ebooks, to restrict the use of the file.

For example, in order to have access to a copy of The Cambridge Companion to Kant, a book I've been reading along with the works of the philosopher this summer, I had to buy the paper edition ($ 29.50 retail), the Kindle edition ($ 28.42) and the «Amazon Upgrade» PDF version ($ 7.39) in order to access the book physically, through the eBook reader I own and the PC I use, respectively.

The report presents 145 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of eBook issues, including: spending on eBooks in 2010 and anticipated spending for 2011; use levels of various kinds of eBooks; market penetration by various specific eBook publishers; extent of use of aggregators vs offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse levels of various kinds of eBooks; market penetration by various specific eBook publishers; extent of use of aggregators vs offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse of aggregators vs offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Editiouse of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 EditioUse of eBooks 2011 Edition →

Obviously, a number of publishers are upset about this and feel it's just another example of Amazon using its considerable status to make demands on the publishers; another contract term that has raised ire is the requirement that the publisher inform Amazon before offering its titles to another retailer at a lower price, despite the fact that this requirement is actually in accordance with a German law that requires all booksellers to sell each specific title at the same price throughout the country, including ebooks.

«Agency pricing» has been, since its inception, nothing more than a means to control the retail price that Amazon, not Apple, can charge for an ebook — a means to break Amazon's strategy of using ebooks as loss - leaders to sell the Amazon Kindle.

For example, as of this writing, if you use Amazon KDP for your eBook, it is a «non-exclusive» arrangement which allows you to offer your book in multiple retail venues, both online and offline, though some restrictions may apply.

If retailers want to ensure that the ebooks in their online store are equivalent to the printed books you can buy at a bricks and mortar store, it makes sense to use the same tools that have been available for keeping track of books for a long time.

I was using it to distribute the ebook versions of my three nonfiction books on non-Amazon retailers.

Hi Alice, My main reasons for doing it myself are: * You only pay 1 middleman i.e. Amazon — if you go through someone else you pay them as well as Amazon / other retailers * Ease of updates and they are also free — some of these ebook publishers will charge you to update It's really easy to do your own files now, use Scrivener or another package.

Since the retailer doesn't release sales numbers, his mission is to try to use its book sales pages and authors» actual revenue figures to develop a picture of what «s profitable in the Amazon ebook ecosystem and what authors might expect as potential results of their decisions to self - publish or try to traditionally publish.

7) Extended distribution — Make your book (paperback and ebook) available to thousands of online and offline retailers in addition to libraries, using your own isbn as publisher 8) Beta Read — Your book will be read by a reviewer.

A self - published author can quickly get their print and ebook distributed to the most important online retailers by using just a couple services, all of which have no or very low upfront costs.

If you're patient and willing to format your Word document carefully, you can use the automated conversion processes of Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Pronoun or similar ebook retailer and distribution services.

7) Extended distribution — Make your book (paperback and ebook) available to thousands of online and offline retailers in addition to libraries using your own isbn as publisher 8) Beta Read and Proofread — Your book will be edited (one pass only).

We, at BB eBooks, welcome any of your feedback if you are using D2D or any other automatic conversion software to submit your eBook to retailers.

Essentially every eBook retailer, with the exception of Amazon, uses the ePub format.

Adobe DRM is the main form of DRM in use for ebooks, virtually all of the retailers use it apart from Amazon and Apple who both have their own version.

If they want to sell through Kindle — and of course, they do — they use Amazon's proprietary MOBI ebook format; and for everyone else they use Adobe DRM, which is recognized by other retailers.

(By the way, I'm still not convinced that Apple will use pricing, margins, and the totally bogus issue of in - app purchasing to try to freeze the Kindle and other ebook retailing apps off of its iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch platforms.)

But i honestly can not remember the last time I bought Big - 5 fiction retail — I only get used dead - tree copies any more, $ 15 ebooks can go... take care of themselves.

That will make the distributor the publisher of record (as in, their name will show up in the publisher slot on most retail sites); also, you're not supposed to use the ISBN except on sites to which the aggregator distributes, but you'll want to use the same ID number for the ebook everywhere it's for sale.

Even though there are several eBook Conversion companies available, most of them use / automated programs and some others load eBooks with of text and technical errors which result in frequent rejections from retailers.

Hundreds of publishers, libraries, retailers and solution providers are distributing and managing eBooks using Adobe Content Server and secured with Adobe DRM.

Breaking the two most common DRM schemes (Amazon's one, and the Adobe one used by most smaller ebook retailers) requires extracting a key from the Kindle or Adobe software, which requires having a running copy of that software, which isn't available for GNU / Linux (or BSD, OpenSolaris, BeOS or whatever).

Enthrill puts racks of attractive ebook gift cards into bookstores and other retail sites, allowing shoppers in brick - and - mortar stores to pay terrestrial cash registers for digital books they download using codes on those cards.

Most of the major ebook retail platforms direct small publishers to use their self - serve platforms not everybody who uses them is a solo author publishing his own work.

As you read on, keep in mind that I use the term book to describe all forms of a book — paper, digital, audio — unless referring specifically to the eBooks sold by major online book retailers.

The usual process is to set a wholesale price based on a discount off the suggested retail price of the ebook or the printed book equivalent (expect smaller discounts than you're used to).

ability to set your Amazon titles to permafree at will Amazon ebook delivery fees waived access to Google Play no arbitrary discount of Google Play titles free ISBNs (for use through Smashword only) free ebook conversion (usable anywhere) integrated reporting monthly payment cycle attractive author pages linking to each of Pronoun's retailers

Shots fired in the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette in the US over profit margins on ebooks: so little faith does the online retail behemoth appear to have in resolving the situation quickly that, in a post on its Kindle forum earlier this week, it recommended that anyone in urgent need of a Hachette title «purchase a new or used version from one of our third - party sellers or from one of our competitors.»

The primary benefit of using Smashwords is to utilize our distribution services which get your book listed for sale at the leading ebook retailers and library ebook aggregators (iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd, OverDrive, etc).

In fact you can pick any combination of retail store distribution during our easy - to - use eBook sign up process.

A study carried out for ebook retailer Kobo suggests that women represent 75 % of the most active e-readers — defined as readers who spend at least 30 minutes a day using electronic books.

I'm winding down my use of a Kindle Touch and wanted to move to another ebook retailer's platform going forward.

Using D2D's Universal Book Links (UBLs), Book Tabs are completely independent of any single ebook retailer.

Rather, publishers are using a modified form of agency: They set an ebook's list price and pay the retailer a commission (Before the settlement went through, that commission was 30 percent; we don't know what the new retailer contracts dictate, but the commission is likely still around 30 percent.)

In those 10 years, over 130,000 authors and publishers have used Smashwords and readers have bought more than $ 100 million worth of Smashwords ebooks (at retail prices)