Although I can't know for sure since I don't work for Amazon and never had, from my experience
with eBook industry I can guess that it may be related to one of the following:
There also are quite a few big names associated
with the ebook industry in Japan: Sharp, Toshiba, Sony, Rakuten (who acquired controlling stake in Kobo), and of course, Amazon.
Not exact matches
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At the time, any stance that even remotely suggested traditional publishing wasn't actually on its death bed, or that
ebooks weren't going to be as transformational as digital music or, god forbid, that maybe the iPad wasn't the publishing savior every tech fetishist insisted it would be — any sense of optimism that the
industry could survive, maybe even thrive, was met
with scorn and snark.
In the latest sign of this disruption, author John Locke — who earlier this year became the first self - published author to sell a million
ebooks — has signed an innovative deal
with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the
industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance of power.
As always, Amazon still dominates both the market place and the discussion,
with its ever - expanding reach into different aspects of the publishing world, but keep in mind the
eBook industry is international, and current events in foreign countries will also play a role in the success of a book or author.
But Google lets you download your purchase in the
industry standard ePub format,
with most commercial
ebooks also encrypted using Adobe's ACS4 digital rights management (DRM).
The trends in other
industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has,
with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for price fixing (iBookstore prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting
ebook prices in the long run.
Having a short title
with a long, descriptive subtitle is standard in the publishing
industry, but not for
ebooks.
Students at Jacksonville State University, for example, had the option to buy not only an
ebook of their English 101 texts, but it also came
with the famous add - ons that
industry experts have promised: practice tests, extra insights, and more in - depth lecture notes.
Byliner is an
industry pioneer who began selling
ebooks in 2011 by capitalizing on readers» desires to know more than just what appeared in a 100 - word blurb on Yahoo's homepage, while still acknowledging that readers didn't always have time to sit down
with a full - length volume.
The company has stated they will also be taking the opportunity to release what it calls a collaborative
ebook that deals
with the topic of
ebook industry and its future.
The fact that
ebooks themselves haven't led to increased piracy, and that
industry studies have shown book pricing or free content also doesn't increase or decrease piracy, hasn't seemed to sink in
with publishers.
eBooks as a viable source of industry revenue for both traditional publishing and indie has been called into question in the past, especially given the fact that critics love to indicate the plateau that ebooks seem to have hit with re
eBooks as a viable source of
industry revenue for both traditional publishing and indie has been called into question in the past, especially given the fact that critics love to indicate the plateau that
ebooks seem to have hit with re
ebooks seem to have hit
with readers.
It's rare that Amazon isn't leading the charge in some aspect of the book
industry, but news came out today that Amazon is experimenting
with ebook subscription models.
Overall, the publishing
industry is not really concerned
with eBook piracy.
eBook lending has been a struggle for the
industry,
with different publishers experimenting
with different lending parameters and limitations in an effort to protect the interests of their companies and their authors.
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Since the introducing of the Kindle, the
eBook market has grown leaps and bounds,
with many in the
industry saying that it would take over the print market.
Again this year, consumer media coverage of Book Expo America is focused on
eBooks (the Financial Times headline, «E-books Rewrite an
Industry» contrasts
with a blogger's take that BEA is about clueless «
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Ebooks The fate of fixed - layout ebooks is far from assured, with many in the industry convinced that particular corner of the market is stuck in ne
Ebooks The fate of fixed - layout
ebooks is far from assured, with many in the industry convinced that particular corner of the market is stuck in ne
ebooks is far from assured,
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I became intrigued by this topic when as an author
with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing
Industry Predictions — Indie
Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»
The fate of fixed - layout
ebooks is far from assured,
with many in the
industry convinced that particular corner of the market is stuck in neutral.
My hope though is that a «market changer» similar to iTunes will arrive for the
ebook industry in the not too distant future and bring
with it self publishing standards that are appropriate for both readers and authors.
From something that was considered a domestic online enterprise, eSentral has grown into a digital platform monster serving more than 40,000
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So it is the case
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industry, including
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Given the explosive growth of
ebook sales since the launch of the Kindle in 2007,
with increases in the triple digits for several years, many expected the paper book
industry to remain in retreat for the foreseeable future.
In conjunction
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Amazon,
ebooks, Kickstarter, self - publishing... the publishing
industry looks very different today than it did five years ago when the first Kindle launched to mixed reviews and self - publishing was synonymous
with vanity publishing.
Whether or not the
industry is ready may still remain to be seen, but
with publishers like Hachette reporting record
ebook sales even in 2013, it's a clear sign that readers are responding to digital publishing, regardless of where it originated.
Additionally, Rebecca Smart of Osprey proposed that the funeral march - pace of traditional publishing is practically artificial and needs to be sped up to keep up
with the
industry of
ebooks.
Amazon's CreateSpace holds the top position for print production of self - published titles,
with 39 % of the
industry in 2011, while Smashwords produced more self - published
ebooks than any other platform
with 47 % of the market.
Many publishers colluded
with Apple when it launched iBooks to create a uniform
ebook pricing structure to disrupt Amazon's complete dominance over the
industry.
From the fight that libraries are still facing over
ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate
ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open
with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the
industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.
BookShout, the
ebook distribution platform that has seen a great deal of recent success in partnering
with publishers to produce sales dashboards and seamless, device - agnostic file integration for
ebook consumers, announced at today's DBW event that several
industry veterans from across major publishers have joined BookShout's team for its new print distribution initiative.
But after the holiday e-reader gift giving when the
industry saw an expected spike in
ebook sales to go
with those new devices, USA Today's list contained an unprecedented number of
ebooks that were actually faring better than their print editions in the marketplace.
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«Even more than their parents, young readers are very comfortable
with digital content, so the addition of children's and teens»
ebooks from such a large and influential publisher as Simon & Schuster is a welcome development in our
industry,» said George Coe, President of Baker & Taylor's Library & Education division.
eBooks continue to increase in number
with fully 90 % of those in the publishing
industry having read a book or journal digitally.
China has already grown to emerge as the second largest
ebook market in the world and China's digital publishing
industry has shown impressive growth of late,
with ebooks, digital newspapers, and digital magazine growing by 52.6 percent in 2012.
A US judge is still in the process of handling the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — along
with five of the then - Big Six publishers — for conspiring to raise the price of
ebooks in order to impact the market share that Amazon held over the
industry.