“We now sell three times as many digital books as all formats of physical books combined on BN.com,” Lynch reported. (Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is also selling more e-books than print books, but neither company has released actual sales numbers.) He also said that “PubIt!, our self-publishing digital platform, is the fastest growing part of our digital catalog in units and volume sales. We had our first PubIt! title reach #1 sales rank on our Nook Bookstore recently.
John Locke has become the first self-published author to sell more than one million e-books through Amazon.
The author used Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform to publish and sell his titles. He joins Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins and Michael Connelly in what Amazon dub the Kindle Million Club.
Locke said: “Kindle Direct Publishing has provided an opportunity for independent authors to compete on a level playing field with the giants of the book selling industry.
МОСКВА, 17 июня 2011 г. Всероссийский центр изучения общественного мнения (ВЦИОМ) представляет данные о том, сколько книг в домашней библиотеке среднестатистического россиянина, сколько книг в среднем прочитали наши сограждане за последние месяцы, где берут книги, чтобы почитать, и насколько популярны такие виды книг, как электронные и аудио-, в сравнении с традиционными бумажными.
У большинства россиян в домашней библиотеке - менее 100 книг, причем с каждым годом таких респондентов становится все больше (с 28% в 1990 году до 49% в текущем).
Klebanoff, who founded New York-based digital publisher Rosetta Books in 2001, met UK-based agents last week and addressed a meeting of about 65 agents organised by the Association of Authors Agents on Monday.
Klebanoff is looking for backlist titles where digital rights are unassigned, with a view to acquiring both world rights or US rights alone. He said Rosetta was offering a royalty more than double that on offer from large print publishers—a 50% net royalty payment for up to 2,500 copies sold and then 60% after.
The Japanese eBook industry is crowded and awash with activity but is making no progress. In a recent edition of the eBook Journal, Yashio Uemura of Tokyo Denki University laments that the current eBook boom in Japan is in reality a boom in eBook seminars.
This sense of frustration within the industry may seem at odds with annual revenues, as reported by Impress R&D, of $600 million and growth in excess of 20% per year.
via bookbrewer.com
Borders, Kobo, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo и Google eBooks. А потом ещё и роялти заплатят. Если продажи будут. ISBN включён. Сказка.
A publisher can produce 1500 different books, great books, important books, groundbreaking books that could change the world for what it cost to make the Green Lantern movie. The publisher could pay each author a $75,000 advance and produce the titles (enough to fill several bookshelves in thousands of homes) for the cost of one summertime clunker.
Some are saying that the future of books is in the direction of apps, videos and other multimedia productions, entire experiences that express an idea.
Speaking at the inaugural Futurebook Innovation Workshop, held in London Bridge, digital editor Dan Franklin announced that five 10,000 word e-books would be released on 28th July, priced £2.99, with Franklin saying the books, and the imprint, will be aiming to fill the space for long-form journalism left as traditional media contracts.
The specially-commissioned titles, all written by journalists, will be: Kettled Youth by Dan Hancox; The Debt Delusion by Mehdi Hassan; The Revolution Road by Peter Beaumont; Digital Activism or Slack-tivism?
