Tag Archives: Ebooks

CHEF PAD – Addressing the Cooking Vertical?

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Last week, tablet maker Archos announced the ChefPad, a tablet designed specifically for Foodies. The tablet curates apps so that only Cooking ones come up. It has a waterproof protective cover, built-in stand and front & back dual cameras. There …

Digital Book Signings Help Grow Authors’ Careers

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Part 1 in a 2-part series on digital book signing. See part 2 here. Book signings are an age-old tradition, but is it really necessary to extend this custom to ebooks? Today’s ebook signing services and apps not only make …

Book Publicity: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t

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It’s not easy to secure publicity for books, and I doubt anyone would argue when I say that the difficulty is much greater when said book is published in electronic format only. Even with print-on-demand copies, we often find ourselves …

Ebooks Grew 134% in UK in 2012, up to 12% of Total Market

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[Press Release] Publishing Industry Continues to Grow with Sales of Consumer ebooks rising by 134% The Publishers Association (The PA) Statistics Yearbook 2012 shows that total consumer ebook sales have continued to rise in 2012, by 134%, reaching £216 million.Total …

Want to know what’s next for ebooks? Ask a teen

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Want to know what’s next for ebooks, tablets, e-readers, and mobile connectivity? Take a close look at teenagers’ behavior. “In many ways, teens represent the leading edge of mobile connectivity, and the patterns of their technology use often signal future …

An Interview with Hybrid Author Michael J. Sullivan

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Fantasy author Michael J. Sullivan was one of the early indies who signed a traditional contract when the big-six came knocking. Orbit (fantasy imprint of Hachette) bought his Riyria Revelations series and republished it as three, two-book omnibus volumes. He …

Are libraries offering enough self-published ebooks?

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A self-published novel, The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken, was the best-selling ebook on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble during the week ending April 13, 2013. This statistic demonstrates a major shift in our literary ecosystem—self-published books have become culturally …

Public Libraries, Corporate Publishers and eBooks

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Last week Simon & Schuster signed a deal with 3M and the NYPL to distribute eBooks into libraries. Now all of the “Big6″ corporate publishers have some type of agreement selling eBooks into public libraries. Libraries are indispensable. Publishers agree …

7 Must-Consider Strategies for Ebook Pricing

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Is there room for new thinking on ebook pricing strategies? The medium is still new, so customer expectations have not been set in stone. Now’s the time for publishers and authors to think strategically about the cost of e-books. I’ve looked …

Can Indie Bookstores Be Saved?

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Related: Indie Bookstore Sales of Kobo Ebooks Dwarf Google; Still Slow There are now about 2,000 bricks-and-mortar independent bookstores in the U.S. That’s up from about 1,500 a few years ago but way down from the mid-1990s when there were …

Indie Bookstore Sales of Kobo Ebooks Dwarf Google; Still Small

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Just six months after forging a partnership with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) to help independent bookstores sell ebooks, Canadian upstart Kobo has shown that it can crush the competition – even when it’s one of the world’s largest and most admired companies. In fact, it only took a month. Despite the success, overall sales have been relatively slow and there are other problems indie bookshops face when signing up to sell ebooks and e-readers with Kobo.

Streaming Ebooks: A New Distribution Model for Schools

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Part Two in the series of articles on new e-book distribution methods for schools. See “Ebooks Are Actually Not Books” for Part One.  One ebook, one device, for one child. It makes sense if you’re a parent looking to provide reading material for …

Hydra is appropriately named.

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In mythology, a hydra is a serpent-like beast with many heads.  And when you cut one head off, it grew two more.  It also had poisonous breath and acid like blood. So why would you name a publishing imprint after …

Top 3 problems with tablets in the classroom

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by Beth Bacon One million iPads. That’s the number of tablets Apple sold to schools and colleges in the year before the current school year. It’s roughly double the number sold in the education market during the previous year. In …

Expanding Options for Publishing: The New Hybrid Author

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There have been some fantastic reflections of late on the emerging powerhouse that is the “hybrid author”. One of my recent favorites is Jane Friedman’s interview with CJ Lyons. Lyons discusses her experience on the fronts of traditional publishing (big …

The Barnes & Noble Elephant in the Room at DBW 2013

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Digital Book World 2013 was, as always, brimming with possibility, cautious optimism, and the energy of an industry in full-sail transformation. Within that optimism though, was some troubling data presented by Codex Group CEO Peter Hildick-Smith, which suggested that, despite …

Publishing Senior Executives Come to Grips With Post-Bookstore World

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With the closure of Borders, shrinking library budgets and the pressure independent bookstores and Barnes & Noble are under due to the rise of ebooks and online book sales, bookstore and library shelf space has been shrinking markedly in the U.S. for several years. With less shelf space comes fewer opportunities for publishers to display their wares to consumers — and publishers are starting to come to grips with that future.

Kobo, and another two big players, landed in Brazil

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December 5th, 7:00pm. Kobo lands in Brazil in a partnership with Livraria Cultura, one of the best bookstores in the country and a pioneer on the online book sales business. The launch was at Livraria Cultura’s main store, in the heart …

Rewarding Readers– with Ebooks via Credit/Debit Card

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At the Digital Book World Discoverability Conference, many of the presenters kept getting back to involving readers in the process.  Some also mentioned giving readers “rewards”.  At Cool Gus Publishing, we’ve literally found a way to do that by teaming …

Brazilian books and bricks

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Hi everyone! My name is Ricardo, I’m new here. Since it’s my first post, I thought I’d introduce myself. I’ve been working on the book business in Brazil for the past 20 years. I began working in editorial, where I became …