New York, New York — May 19, 2010 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, is extending its deep and longstanding tradition of supporting authors and publishers
with PubIt!
You can publish on it using Smashwords — and, as I suggested
with PubIt, you might want to compare your sales of short stories (or anything priced under $ 2.99) via the Smashwords premium catalog with sales directly through Amazon to see where you get the most money for your time investment — or you can go straight to Amazon through the KDP platform.
As
with PubIt and Smashwords, you can choose not to apply DRM.
Amazon bought Create Space and opened the floodgates to Kindle Direct Publishing, and Barnes and Noble responded with the similar upload - and - convert process
with PubIt!
Moreover, Halliday's work
with PubIt!
Barnes and Noble is organizing events
with the PubIt program that invites self - published authors to participate in panels and answer questions.
Barbara Freethy, a bestselling and award - winning author who is currently at work on her thirtieth title, represented by Karen Solem of Spencerhill Associates, began publishing some of her works
with PubIt!
Many companies such as Amazon with their Digital Text Publishing Platform, and Barnes and Noble
with their PubIT program, have been dominating the market place for self - publishing.
Keith, I have a book in processing
with PubIt right now and it contains both an email address to the publisher and a link to my website on the copyright page, so I guess I'll soon find out if that violates their terms.
With Pubit, a publisher must have a US bank account, A US CREDIT CARD and a US tax number....
BN tells me that I listed Hush Money
with PubIt!
So I'm sticking
with PubIt too.
The first event kicked off today at the Santa Monica location featuring H.P. Mallory, Beth Orsoff, a traditional turned self - published author who has boosted her sales
with PubIt!
I've had decent months
with Pubit and I, too, am happy they're around, but I still sell more on BN through Smashwords.
FINALLY, two weeks after I made my initial listing
with Pubit!
Not exact matches
Okay, realize that if you have an internal business publication deadline, don't announce the exact date because it takes days for a book to come live on Kindle and
PubIt and Kobo and iBooks, a month of time at least for any POD
with proofing, and such.
Understandably, the representative wouldn't commit to that, but did say that
with input from
PubIt!
«When we launched
PUBIT, we had no idea how big the community would be,» she said, and went on to describe how difficult it would have been forming direct relationships
with authors without
PUBIT.
Many authors use the Amazon platform in conjunction
with other self - publishing companies such as Barnes and Noble
Pubit and Bookbrewer «Get Published.»
To use
PubIt, Barnes & Noble's self - publishing platform, you need a US tax ID and credit card associated
with a US address.
We also take you behind the scenes of our own accounts for Amazon KDP,
PubIt, Smashwords, and Createspace showing you the step by step process for publishing as well as providing material on KDP Select and formatting your file
with Scrivener.
I have yet to publish
with Barnes and Noble through their
PubIt or
with Smashwords.
Now, however,
with the advent of the Amazon KDP program as well as Barnes and Noble's
PubIt program, authors now have an alternative.
«We are thrilled
with our initial sales for
PubIt!
Last October, Borders had also entered the self publishing genre by setting up Borders Publishing in conjunction
with Book Brewer which was in line
with Amazon's Digital Text Publishing Platform or the B&N's
PubIT program.
I agree
with all the points you made that make
PubIt!
At the end of the workshop, you'll leave
with knowledge of a reliable conversion process based on freely available software that will quickly get your book exported to files for the Amazon KDP, Barnes & Noble,
PubIt, and Apple iTunes marketplaces.
PubIt was a program launched last year that allows authors to submit their eBooks to the Barnes and Noble online ebookstore and be listed side by side
with bestselling authors.
The platform will help Nook compete
with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, providing a content creation and management tool that builds on Barnes & Noble's aging
PubIt!
Is there any way that an Australian author can publish an ebook directly
with Barnes & Noble (via
Pubit)?
PubIt is a new entry, trying to catch up
with Amazon.
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Pubit!
Whether or not the freemium model will work
with ebooks like it has
with music and movies remains to be seen, especially given the access American readers have to platforms such as Amazon's Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble's
PubIt!
The first event was a resounding success
with around 50 people appearing to meet H.P. Mallory, author of Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble, and To Kill a Warlock, calls
PubIt!
DangDang's revenue model is a forty - sixty split
with the publishers, close to what indie authors make through their own digital publishing efforts
with US - based Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and Barnes & Noble's
PubIt!
To get started
with NOOK Press today, simply create a NOOK Press account and follow the instructions to sync your
PubIt!
If the popularity of both Amazon digital publishing options — KDP and KDP Select — coupled
with the growth of Barnes and Noble's
PubIt!
After noteworthy success
with several romance imprints of major publishing houses, Andre became one of the first writers to publisher her own ebook titles immediately following the launch of Barnes & Noble's digital imprint,
PubIt!
With CreateSpace and Lulu, Smashwords, Kindle and
pubit!
This is also true
with BN /
PubIt, Smashwords, and many other retailers.
I distribute direct
with Amazon and
Pubit, go through Smashwords for kobo, apple, diesel & sony.
Competitive
with Amazon.com's CreateSpace, the
PubIt!
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To make matters worse, several commenters» best advice was to log in
with old
PubIt!
When we bring a new book into existence, I focus on the bigger houses in this order: Kindle first (they sell most), then
Pubit (Nook reader, or its replacement) for Barnes & Noble, then Smashwords (so I can get into Apple, but we've also reached Kobo, Sony, and Diesel that way too), all
with the same ebook Word file.
I tried B&N's platform while it was still
PubIt, and stuck
with it for a little while after they changed the name to Nook Press.
I have personally used this tool, along
with Barnes & Noble's
PubIt, and have found it exquisite.
Question — If I were to publish
with KDP (NOT select), B&N
PubIt!
I've been pretty lucky
with my novels as ebooks (and yes, the royalties are easy to figure out) and yes, I agree
with you, B&N's
PubIt is a little odd.
Called «Nook Press,» the new platform takes the place of
PubIt, another digital publishing program Barnes & Noble launched two years ago, and uses new technology from FastPencil, a digital self - publishing company that Barnes & Noble partnered
with last year.