A person at Amazon told me that publishers keep ebook prices high in part because they don't want to jeopardize their relationships
with traditional booksellers.
Wherein big publisher ebooks maintain an absurd price that is meant to deter the average buyer from fully adopting the format, keeping relationships
with traditional booksellers intact.
«Jeff Bezos must have contemplated the possibility of working
with traditional booksellers Barnes & Noble or Borders,» Spulber speculates.
Not exact matches
With some 1,350 stores and a $ 900 - million U.S. market cap, the 137 - year - old company is by far the U.S.'s largest
traditional bookseller.
In what is perhaps the single most telling example of why the
traditional publishing fails to address the needs of authors, The Guardian posted an interview
with Phillip Jones, editor of the
Bookseller, and Nicola Solomon, general secretary of the UK's Society of Authors.
Some have speculated as to whether JK Rowling may have started a coup in
traditional publishing by having the clout to tell the online
booksellers that they will agree to these terms in order to provide their customers
with ebooks from bestselling authors.
Marketing is partially responsible for the urgency in getting paperbacks on the
booksellers» shelves, since the limited dollars a publisher has to spend on promoting a new title would have to be repeated to a lesser extent in a year's time
with the release of the paperback on a
traditional timetable.
On Tuesday, August 25, Sony announced that it is cooperating
with the American
Booksellers Association, other retailers, and a variety of
traditional and digital publishers to make available a universe of reading material in EPUB format compatible
with Sony Readers.
Many agents and industry veterans see big problems
with the largest online
bookseller disrupting the
traditional publishing industry.
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Having come from a
traditional route, I feel the difference compared to authors whose books are easily available to
booksellers because they are
with a
traditional publisher.
But now, reports show that e-book sales are down, leveling out
with print sales, and
traditional booksellers are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
Although the authors write in different genres — the six of them represent the categories of romance, thriller, erotica, paranormal, mystery and science fiction — they've found synergy in sharing information and now, attending BEA to forge better relationships
with distributors, librarians,
booksellers, and the media, alongside booths of
traditional publishers.
You may be able to sell a self - published book to a local or independent
bookseller, but if you'd like to make it to Barnes and Nobles or Books - A-Million, you'll have better luck going
with a
traditional publisher.
The
bookseller has tried to adjust to a noticeable shift in book reading habits,
with e-book readers becoming increasingly popular
with consumers over
traditional hardcover or paperback books.
As for where
booksellers place your print book in the physical bookstore — even
traditional publishing houses struggle
with this.
Authors who wanted to artificially inflate their book's popularity could buy satisfied reader reviews, circumventing the tedious business of building relationships
with readers, librarians and
booksellers like those squares in
traditional publishing insist you must.