I would imagine allowing
used ebook sales would be the same as long as I got a partial royalty of some kind.
It's quite practical with well - managed
used ebook sales.
Most publishers seem hung up on the notion that
a used ebook sale will mean one less original sale for them.
Not exact matches
For example, if you're offering a free
ebook that teaches people how to increase sales for their businesses, use that benefit in your call to action (e.g., Get My Free Ebook
ebook that teaches people how to increase
sales for their businesses,
use that benefit in your call to action (e.g., Get My Free
Ebook Ebook Now).
When an
eBook credit is
used and CircularFLO is run in «live mode» all pages have their watermarks removed and a validated EPUB3 and KF8 compatible file is created that is ready for distribution and
sale.
You may withdraw your
eBook from
sale on NOOK Press
using the procedures for
eBook withdrawal as listed on our website.
They don't see the
used market in their spreadsheets, just as they don't see growing indie
ebook sales there, so they have no idea how their decisions are playing out in consumer behavior.
If that's the case, and you plan to host your
ebook on your own website,
use a platform that's designed for
ebook sales.
I
used to stress about bad reviews, my ego throbbing like a bee sting, but then I read something by Indie author John Locke (who set the record for
eBook sales and is starting to turn «traditional publishing» into a bad word) that completely changed the game:
You can create a
sales page for your
ebooks and
use power tools like multiple payments support, affiliate programs, protected storage, discount offers, manage inventory, create packages, Google Analytics and more.
Plus these days with the
eBook becoming more prevalent, its impossible to read the ending as the most you get are the first few pages
using the Look Inside option, which probably explains why
eBook sales here in the United Kingdom, a nation of paper and hardback lovers, pale in comparison to the much more enlightened readers in the United States.
This tends to happen when an author has had some good success with their
eBook sales and would like to create a print book
using the POD programs offered by LSI and / or CreateSpace.
Right now neither Amazon nor B&N
use ISBNs for any of their
ebook sales.
However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason» costs $ 8.97 in PB at Amazon and $ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the
ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book
sale or the local senior center, sell it to my favorite
used book store, etc..
Some sources say BookScan does not report on 75 to 85 % of
sales but I'd bet that number is actually lower (in terms of what BookScan reports on) because if you consider the lists of technical, scholarly, law - related books, the Christian market, the millions of self - published titles each year, and all of the
eBooks that
use Amazon's ASIN system, I'd wager a guess that BookScan gets maybe 65 - 70 % of the market.
Also, growing significantly faster than
ebook sales, are the rentals of
used textbooks which are hitting both rentals of new titles and new print
sales.
In any event, today Shatzkin criticized publishers who, having seized control of the pricing of
ebooks, are not doing a very good job of
using those prices to maximize
sales revenue.
Most Indie
ebooks (and keep in mind, we are talking
ebooks, not print, all the way through here) are sold without the ISBN that traditionally has been
used to track
sales.
For authors
using Amazon Createspace and Kindle Direct Publishing as their self publishing platform, another reason to go print AND
ebook is to potentially make more
sales.
«It
used to be that writers were thrilled just to have their manuscripts turned into an
eBook and listed for
sale on Amazon,» said Spatz.
Kindle Direct Publishing is a self - publishing platform that individuals and small presses
use to add their
eBooks for
sale on the Amazon bookstore.
HarperCollins is
using a 3rd party fulfillment for their
eBook sales, called Digital River.
One of the misunderstandings authors have about the
sale of
ebooks abroad is that customers in countries that do not have their own dedicated Amazon stores are still often able to
use a «neighboring» Amazon.
The story is bias and misleading
using market share to dismiss Apple share of
eBook sales.
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).
1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and
sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5)
Use your
ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break through.
We believe self - publishers should personally manage their
ebook sales and not
use third party services to «publish» their
ebooks.
While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as
sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis
using Bookscan as a primary
sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room
sales or as
ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.
When
using any distributor, you should make sure that you adhere to the Fixed Price Law, which means your book must be available for the same price on all German
sales channels (this will be easy on German
ebook distributors, but you have to pay attention when
using Smashwords, for instance).
You will benefit from a global approach, learning about the opportunities and obstacles US companies face as they
use ebooks to expand internationally, how international
ebook markets are now growing robustly and how non-US publishers both learn from the US market experience and expand their
sales here (in their own languages and in English).
Let's say for example that in the new world of
used ebooks, Amazon offers readers who have reached the last page of an ebook the option to put it up for sale in the Amazon Used Ebook Marketpl
used ebooks, Amazon offers readers who have reached the last page of an
ebook the option to put it up for sale in the Amazon Used Ebook Marketp
ebook the option to put it up for
sale in the Amazon
Used Ebook Marketpl
Used Ebook Marketp
Ebook Marketplace.
A popular approach for independent authors is to
use Amazon KDP without assistance or distributors in the way, and then employ an
ebook distributor for the rest of the
ebook market to reduce administration time, since
sales outside of Amazon are usually less than 10 to 15 percent of total
ebook sales.
Used it two times and in both cases, our
ebooks went to # 1 on Amazon
sales.
I would encourage you not to downplay the impact of
ebook sales, because
using the «low hundreds» argument in an artificial pricing arrangement is chicken and egg.
Buying
ebooks from other
ebook stores on an iOS device is a little more of a hassle because you have to
use the web browser instead of the app (otherwise they have to pay Apple 30 % of each
sale) but that's a minor inconvenience to avoid having your
ebooks locked into one brand forever.
(Note that my book is no longer for
sale because it's coming out in a revised / updated edition from Writer's Digest Books this fall, and I have little doubt my net royalty on each
ebook copy of that edition will be less than what I
used to get on the self - published edition — but I'm OK with that).
3M will donate a portion of each book
sale to the library for
use in purchasing additional
eBooks from the 3M Cloud Library.
The author portal also offers useful tools, like a
sales heat map that authors can
use to geo - target their marketing efforts and, for Amazon Publishing authors, a beta program that lists daily Kindle
ebook unit
sales.
The Luzme site itself offers
ebook fans the ability to not only locate
ebooks quickly across several platforms, showing consumers where particular titles are available and from which platform, but also allows consumers to be alerted when a title goes on
sale or where it can be found at the best price; users can even incorporate their Watch Lists from their widely
used ebook retailers to be alerted when a book on that list becomes available at a lower price.
In exchange for incentives such as paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books, authors were not allowed to list their
ebooks for
sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to
use platforms like Wattpad where users could interact with the book.
With the acquisition of BookIr, a leading analytics platform that tracks the
sales of nearly four million books to provide information to professionals in every aspect of the publishing industry, Vook is poised to offer unheard of tools to authors who
use its
ebook creation and distribution service.
I'm aiming for Bowker, Ingram (Lightning Source), an
ebook distributor (ebookpartnership), Createspace (Amazon only), direct to Amazon / B & N / Kobo to make discounted brief
sales easier, and a limited
use of Smashwords.
In addition to that, we have authors who want to
use the e-format to spur
sales of their print and
ebooks.
Ebook sales are counted in real time, and then paid monthly, no matter what account is being
used.
Starting with
ebooks, he says that there was a 28 % increase in online
sales for bookstores
using the IndieCommerce platform.
Mike Edwards, CEO of Borders, Inc. said that by
using the program, «authors can quickly and easily load, format and publish content, which will then be available for
sale within a few days on Borders.com and other major
eBook outlets.
Today Booktango announced that authors who publish by July 4, 2012
using Booktango's DIY Free
eBook Publishing Platform will keep the entirety of the sales on ebooks sold on Booktango.com for the life of the e
eBook Publishing Platform will keep the entirety of the
sales on
ebooks sold on Booktango.com for the life of the
ebookebook.
Amazon
eBook Sales Have Overtaken Print in the UK — In the United Kingdom Amazon, Kobo, Sony, and other major companies have
used the country as a launch point to enter the rest of Europe.
-- Traditional publishers are
using the «
sale» aspects of lower
ebook prices for very - short - time events, sometimes only a day, often a week.
This so - called «
used ebook» thing might end up hurting publishers»
sales so badly that perhaps they'll finally be forced to boycott Amazon... something that in hindsight they should have done long ago.