Sentences with phrase «with ebook publishers»

However, the DoJ still wants to control what negotiations Apple can make with ebook publishers.

Before the arrival of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.

Balcells has already begun a limited collaboration with ebook publisher and distributor Leer - e and has not signed on to the agreement between ADAL and the major publishers.

Not exact matches

My own Canadian publisher, Penguin, has been fighting with Amazon over ebook pricing and generally trying to resist the digital revolution completely.

Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling ebooks at low prices.

In both situations, Apple had convinced major book publishers to go with an «agency model,» which would let them set their own prices on ebooks (as in raise prices on ebooks).

The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do with publishers» efforts at buffing up ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief from antitrust watchdogs.

The terms, which are undisclosed, are contingent on the outcome of Apple's appeal of an antitrust ruling that it conspired with five major publishers to make eBooks more expensive.

Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world's most successful travel publisher, printing over 120 million books in eleven different languages, along with guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet.

Our catalog includes over 18,000 publishers with print books, eBooks, online educational databases, audiobooks, video resources, makerspace materials, and more.

With this feature smaller and self publishers have a way distribute ebooks directly to their readers without using existing ebook retailers.

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Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

And in keeping with the company's roots as an enhanced ebook publisher, Vook includes the ability to produce enhanced ebooks with video and audio (but remember the caveat above).

It also works for publishers and authors who want to sell ebooks with Aerio.

As a small publisher, I have constraints as well — from a pure resource - effort point of view, ebooks are extremely simple from the physical point of view, and with regards to print - titles, we have chosen the more expensive, quality - oriented path, and yet we are still making money out of it.

Traditional publishers do this all over the place with ebooks (and they don't always indicate that what you're getting is a sample in their description).

Earlier this year, Author Solutions acquired another one of its competitors, Xlibris; entered partnerships with traditional publishers Thomas Nelson and Harlequin to create self - publishing imprints; and partnered with Sony to make all of their books available as eBooks.

Publishers follow the same path with ebooks, plus an extra step: they usually generate the ebook file directly from the Adobe InDesign file or the PDF used for the print version.

They're trying to avoid the crap with ebooks being the same cost (or more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.

Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.

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.

Last week, for the first time ever, a major author — or, in many minds (as though it's a matter of opinion), THE world - premiere author of the # 1 best - selling series in publishing history, J.K. Rowling — has decided (with her publisher) to release the ebooks directly.

And even online, with library eBooks, publishers may --- again over time — prefer to revise and enhance only certain formats selectively, so that eBooks which started out identical do not remain so in the longer term.

Publishers may offer ebooks at a discount with an annual subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled Publishers may offer ebooks at a discount with an annual subscription to the whole catalog or publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled publishers their your titles with a scaled option of 10, 20, 30 for scaled discounts.

Each one of them, with its own features and strengths, offers publishers a great way to move to a more hands - on and customised phase in their ebook strategies.

Forty - three per cent plan to start their ebook sales this year with most looking to kick off in the next few months, according to a pre-Christmas survey of Australian booksellers conducted by Bookseller + Publisher.

Gemstar tried to launch them in Europe too, beginning with Germany, while buying 00h00, a French publisher of ebooks, in September 2000.

From their website: «eBook Architects, a service of Firebrand Technologies, works with authors and publishers of all sizes, designing high - quality ebooks for the Kindle, iPad, NOOK, and other devices.

As an indie publisher of children's books, I am frustrated with the messy ebook landscape, too.

Also, if you had, in the past, a book publishing contract with a publisher that has expired, we can help you to re-publish your book as a self published author either as an eBook or in print.

We chose to sit in on the panel «The Tipping Point: How eBooks Impact Libraries, Publishers and Readers» with Barbara Fister, Eli Neiburger and Steve Potash.

However, after five major publishers made an agreement with Apple on ebook pricing that specified other platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise prices, and many books began selling for $ 14.99.

Some of the same authors — with an assist from traditionally published authors, their publishers, and various publishing pundits — have been making the same arguments about cheap eBooks.

Its planned copyright changes to let libraries lend ebooks with or without publisher permission shows it's not averse to forcing rightsholders» hands.

I sat down with Emma McKay, managing editor at Askmen and the force behind their foray into ebooks, to talk about what happens when an analytics - driven web publisher enters the ebook space.

What is apparently falling are the limited selection of overpriced ebooks saddled with DRM that most «traditional» publishers put out.

While publishers no longer need to manage their own converted eBook files with unique identifiers, those re-sellers will still need to do so.

Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based on sales ranking; partnered with the new Pricing Manager which allows authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.

Oyster is one of the bright spots, offering 500,000 eBook titles and has established relationships with over 1,600 distinguished publisher partners.

It's exciting to see how publishers are taking advantage of the eBook platform, although I'm not sure that «Writer's Cut» eBooks will work with every genre.

I'm an active TPL digital borrower, and was not aware that the library deals directly with publishers on ebook purchases — the website list of digital services shows only intermediary services like OverDrive, Hoopla, etc..

GoodEReader reported last month that the American Library Association had asked for and gotten meetings with three of the Big Six publishers to discuss moving forward with ebook lending.

With news this week that Amazon has added whole new international markets to its list of places where authors and publishers can earn a 70 % royalty on ebooks, the rumors and misinformed half - truths have begun swirling again as authors set out to decipher the terms.

Through our partnership with Bookmate, local readers can now enjoy unlimited access to Bookmate's vast collection of ebooks through its comprehensive association with leading publishers.»

Why can't the staff work for free so that we can pay slightly less for our ebooks?!! And if publishers must have staff, do they really need to provide them with a workplace?

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«Libraries are standing there with fistfuls of cash in their hands and saying to the big publishers, «We want to buy your ebooks,» and the publishers are saying no or they're charging way too much for their books.

At least that's the case where the European Union is concerned, and a year - long investigation into Amazon's ebook distribution contracts with publishers.

Hugh's advice for publishers is to eliminate things that annoy him (non-compete clauses, length - of - copyright licenses, New York City offices) and to lower prices, give away ebooks with hardcover purchases, and pay authors monthly.