Infographic: How to Publish and Sell an Ebook

16 January 2014 by particularkev

The link below is to an infographic that looks at publishing and selling an ebook.

For more visit:
http://ebookfriendly.com/checklist-publish-sell-ebook-infographic/

Digital publishing: How it will evolve in 2014 and beyond

13 January 2014 by particularkev

I recently attended Le Web in Paris, where the theme of the conference was innovation in the next decade. It got me to thinking about where we go with publishing. Even on Google, you won’t be able to find an article on publishing trends from the 1440s, the decade after Johannes Gutenberg introduced movable type printing to Europe. But if you did, it would probably focus more on the gloomy outlook for the illuminated manuscript industry than on the then-unfolding print revolution, which launched cascading innovations that would change everything and usher in the Age of Enlightenment.

Something similar is at work today: Digital publishing is now a mature, thriving industry, and yet many still insist that publishing is in its death throes. Book publishers know better: While hardcover sales declined slightly between 2008 and 2012 (from $5.2 billion to $5 billion), eBook sales grew at an astonishing clip…

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Authors Prefer Traditional Publishers

13 January 2014 by particularkev

The link below is to an article that takes a look at the preference of traditional publishing for authors.

For more visit:
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-authors-prefer-traditional-publishers-to-selfpublishing-surprised-20140109,0,2171066.story#axzz2qGNO62dt

Self-Publishing – Quantity and Quality???

13 January 2014 by particularkev

The link below is to an article that takes a look at the issue of self-publishing and asks if it really is a question of quantity versus quality?

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/reading-2/self-publishing-a-question-of-quantity-vs-quality/

Here’s how much Smashwords authors will get paid through ebook subscription service Oyster

26 October 2013 by particularkev

Gigaom

In the past couple of months, two ebook subscription services — Oyster and Scribd — have launched. Both aim to be a “Netflix (S NFLX) for ebooks,” providing unlimited access to ebooks from a variety of publishers for a set monthly fee.

Both Oyster and Scribd have been fairly circumspect about how authors are paid when their books are accessed through the apps — in part because the terms may vary slightly by publisher. Now, though, we’re getting a little bit more information on how author payments through Oyster work.

Self-publishing distributor Smashwords is letting its authors include their ebooks in Oyster. On Friday, Smashwords CEO Mark Coker sent authors and publishers an email explaining how the financial terms of the arrangement will work:

“As a Smashwords author or publisher, you’ll earn 60 percent of your book’s retail list price whenever an Oyster subscriber reads more than 10 percent of…

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