Sentences with phrase «with other ebook publishers»

1) If I publish through Amazon for Kindle, can my book be published simultaneously with other ebook publishers?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Cross words were exchanged when each entity sent the other its scathing stance on the state of ebook lending, but that didn't prevent the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers from going forward with a planned meeting to discuss the issue.

In April, ALA President Maureen Sullivan will lead a library delegation to meet with Penguin and other publishers in New York City to discuss ways to make ebook titles more accessible for libraries.

Currently, the negotiations surrounding Bilbary's partnership with those and some 2,300 other publishers are for ebook purchasing,... [Read more...]

First Book, a new nonprofit, White House - led initiative, has joined forces with publishers, other nonprofits, and the New York Public Library to create an app called Open eBooks that will bring free literature to students across the country.

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.»

There's A Problem I've written before about how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to ebooks: So we have large publishers seeing sales internationally that they can EASILY service at little marginal cost.

eBooks, Internet, social media and other digital avenues may be your best path to earning a print book deal with a mainstream publisher.

Publishers printed in italics don't sell ePub - format ebooks at this time, but ebooks in other reflowable formats can usually be converted well enough with Calibre.

In keeping with our commitment to provide access to entertaining and absorbing reads for lesbians everywhere Bella partners with other publishers in presenting a vast catalog of lesbian and women's paperbacks and eBooks.

Two years after «standing up» to Amazon by handing Apple instant market share in the ebook space, and jumping through hoops to supply every other harebrained ebook startup with shoddily formatted content, with nary a thought given to device interoperability nor optimal user experiences, and in the wake of the # 2 domestic book retailer finally going bankrupt, libraries have seemingly become the one kid on the playground publishers think they can bully into submission.

eBook Architects works with authors and publishers of all sizes, designing well - formatted, high - quality ebooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, and other devices.

While other ebook subscription startups have been around for years, Oyster and Scribd have made the most headway with not only enticing readers into the benefits of their programs, but also in working with some publishers to put their titles in the catalogs with the most viable compensation models so far.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

King, along with nearly 900 other authors, signed a letter in support of publisher Hachette, who is in a revenue - negotiation struggle with the online retail giant about ebook profits.

Because as soon as Macmillan «wins,» all other publishers will follow suit, and before we know it, we'll be paying DTB prices for an ebook with, again, absolutely no resale value.

And although the PPB costs are eliminated, there are still various costs associated with publishing an ebook, such as cover design, layout & formatting, editing (professional), marketing and other miscellaneous costs (legal, distribution, author assistant etc) all which will be shouldered by the author (or publisher).

In addition to selling books at its own online store with the lowest fee of any retailer listed here (15 %), the Smashwords Premium Catalog offers authors and small publishers a way to distribute their titles across a variety of retailers, including Apple's iBookstore, the Sony eBook Store, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and others.

Some of the specific tactics that publishers and authors have tried in order to reduce ebook piracy have included DRM restrictions, which limit content to one specific device platform and eliminate the ability to share beloved books with fellow readers, and other professional tactics like the watermark that the Harry Potter ebooks contain, theoretically pointing out which reader posted them on file sharing sites.

Others wondered how the publishers don't seem to be aware of what the tech and business sectors see happening with ebooks.

The story also examines the part that the Big Six have played in trying to prevent the development of ebooks, especially where maintaining a working relationship with Amazon is concerned; the authors are quick to point out that the major publishers only began their acceptance of ebooks once other options for retail ebook selling appeared.

I thought with that case they also required the publishers agency agreements to be scrapped and they had to renegotiate contracts to sell ebooks with Apple, Amazon and other ebook distributors.

While Hachette was fighting for expensive ebooks, other publishers were learning from self - published works and really competing with indies for the first time.

Led by ALA President Sari Feldman and DCWG Cochairs Carolyn Anthony and Erika Linke, representatives meet with major publishers and other publishing stakeholders to highlight the library community's valuable role in the publishing and reading ecosystem and to urge improved terms for library ebook access.

For a while now, you've been able to upload your ebook early on Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and some of the other sites, listing it for pre-order 90 days (Amazon) to a year (iBooks) ahead of time, as many of the traditional publishers do with their titles.

With the official launch of the Google eBooks ™ Affiliate Program on June 16, retailers, publishers, bloggers, and other website owners can link to hundreds of thousands of titles in the Google eBookstore and earn a commission for referring sales.

iStoryTime, award - winning creators of children's enhanced ebook apps, has already announced its latest title will be redesigned to shine on the new iPad's screen and an interview with Graham Farrar about their latest title will take place later this week, but now even more publishers are thinking outside the box in terms of building the ebook with the publication in mind rather than the other way around.

As with the other settling publishers, retailers will now be able to discount Macmillan ebooks for a limited time.

In essence, Penguin may appear to be agreeing that it worked together with other publishers to change how ebook pricing was taking place, but that it did so to prevent Amazon from growing into a monopoly.

In recent months, Readmill had added a book discovery feature and partnered with the Guardian, the Atavist, startup Livrada and nearly 100 other independent publishers and digital bookstores to let them sell ebooks directly through their websites.

With competition from eBooks and several other print publishers, Lulu prices need to go down to gain and retain market share and improved profits

A new bookselling start - up funded by authors and other investors is forming partnerships with publishers and independent booksellers and aims to replace the Google eBooks re-seller program as the go - to platform for indies interested in selling e-books.

Kindle and the other eBook readers are doing away with the publishers, so that makes it more streamlined from one side, but from the other it still has drawbacks, as mentioned.

Buterman argued that Apple conspired with publishers to move to agency agreements (in which the publisher sets an ebook's retail price and the retailer takes a cut) with Apple and then forced other retailers — namely Amazon — to move to agency as well.

This week I took some time out from sipping a cup of coffee and hitting «send» on an email, and doing various other publisher - related tasks, and read the Guardian article by Lloyd Shepherd on his recent experience with eBook pirates.

Prices, now being set in conjunction with publishers, are likely to be higher than eBooks on the Kindle or other eReaders.

More publishers will endorse the subscription ebook model by doing business with Oyster, Scribd and other similar services.

Also, the pending Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and other publishers over the «setting» of ebook prices could affect Amazon's distribution to Apple, even with the Ingram deal.

Alternatively, you could write an unrelated short story (publishers usually keep the rights to stories set in the same «world» as other stories you've published with them) and get it edited and turned into an ebook yourself, then offer that as a subscriber magnet.

I can't imagine the publisher being happy to do editing and such on a book and then just handing an epub / mobi version over to the writer to use with their own rights, but on the other hand I can't imagine a book having slightly different edited versions between the ebook and the hard copies.

I think it is early days from which to draw any broad conclusions, but it seems inevitable to me that the big publishers» power is reduced as the parts that nobody else can do (putting books on shelves) become less important compared to the parts that others with much less scale can do (delivering ebooks to the marketplace).

You could take this in the other direction as well and have the original ebook with more rich content than the version the customer is able to either resell or pass along to a friend; if the used ebook recipient wants to add the rich content back in they could come back to the publisher and buy it.

This new report on the eBook market in the US wouldn't be of much interest if it came from a major eBook publisher, Amazon, or some other organization with an obvious vested interest in putting a happy face on things.

Publishers, retailers, and other content distributors have found the CDS to be an ideal means to distribute their ebooks with confidence.

PORTLAND, OR — BookBaby, the leading distributor of eBooks through Amazon, iBooks and many others, launches a new wholesale program today, focusing on the needs of publishers, agents, and others with sizable book catalogs and backlists.

Talks are in progress, he says, with other major publishers, and the company now has deals to supply ebooks from more than 330 publishers, overall, including Wiley, Elsevier, Baker Publishing Group, Andrews McMeel, and Verso.

The Publisher Defendants regularly communicated with each other in private conversations, both in person and on the telephone, and in emails to each other to exchange sensitive information and assurances of solidarity to advance the ends of the conspiracy... directly discussed, agreed to, and encouraged each other to collective action to force Amazon to raise its retail ebook prices... took steps to conceal their communications with one another, including instructions to «double delete» email and taking other measures to avoid leaving a paper trail...