How iBooks Author Stacks Up to the Competition [CHART]

With the announcement of iBooks Author last week, the world of self-publishing seemed to open up a little wider, especially for authors looking for an easy way to format and distribute their own content. At the same time, people raised concerns about the content restrictions of the iBooks Author tool. According to the contract in iBooks Author, books that writers charge for through the iBooks 2 store are subject to fees, which isn't new — iTunes does the same thing with apps in the App Store. But the contract also stipulates books created with the Author tool may only be sold in the iBooks 2 store, and nowhere else. While some writers may deem the Apple iBooks store an adequate revenue stream, others may not welcome the regulations. Still, self-publishing holds potential for many authors, especially now that 29% of U.S. adults own some kind of tablet or ereader. Are you an ebook publisher using something that didn't make the list?

Comment créer un fichier ePub ? "E-Book Standards" - really? In the jostle for market share in the tablet space Amazon is betting it will sell a great deal of content through the Kindle Fire as unlike its fierce competitor Apple it does not make money on its hardware sales. The disappointing financial results released by Amazon this week have caused a stir amongst publishers not to mention shareholders. How well content is selling on the Kindle Fire is largely unknown at this point, especially for publications. I am sure that most publishers would agree that the pace of innovation and change is staggering in the digital world. Amazon's Kindle format 8 (KF8) relies on a completely separate process to create a fixed layout e-book than Apple's version of fixed layout for titles that are design-led e-books. Kobo like to portray themselves as the nice guys of digital publishing and have helped publishers out by following similar specs to Apple's fixed layout EPUBs. The Nook, we think, is a well crafted device that may be heading over here.

TEST. Kindle Fire : pas une tablette, mais un hyper-livre de poche Comme quelques autres "early adopters", je me suis procuré la nouvelle tablette d'Amazon : le Kindle Fire. Présentée comme la seule alternative solide à l'iPad, le Kindle Fire est à la fois un concurrent et une nouvelle expérience. Selon Amazon, les ventes du nouveau Kindle ont explosé depuis son lancement le 15 novembre. On parle de plus de 3 millions de tablettes vendues en moins d'un mois. Les chiffres ci-dessous montre le nombre de connections à Internet depuis le Kindle Fire. Impressionnant : Les chiffres de vente sont à confirmer, mais ils rappellent néanmoins ceux du lancement de la tablette d'Apple à ses débuts. Logique : le Kindle n'est pas né après l'iPad, c'est une amélioration d'une liseuse déjà ultra-dominante sur le marché, et qui donne accès désormais à l'ensemble du catalogue d'Amazon, le plus gros supermarché culturel d'occident, auquel on peut ajouter 10.000 applications Android. Tout d'abord, la sensation est très différente. Bref, je ne peux déjà plus m'en passer.

Is the Honeymoon Over for eBook Lending? - Technorati Entertainment I remember when I first heard about Overdrive, an app that allowed me to borrow electronic books from my local library, without even having to rush down during my lunch hour to the library. This was an idea whose fruition I had been long awaiting. Within a few clicks, I could have a book in my hands, reading merrily on my iPhone or iPad. I couldn't help the feeling that I had somehow gotten away with something, that some library cop was going to pull back the book from my device and say "No, no no..." I should have known things were too good to be true. After such a short honeymoon, between Overdrive, me and my iPad, it would appear the library cop has arrived. As of yesterday, major publishing house Penguin Books has pulled the ability for libraries using ebook lending service Overdrive to lend any new titles, drastically reducing future offerings. According to Penguin, their issue was the ease it took to use Overdrive's service. Continued on the next page

Le livre numérique, vu par un utilisateur averti… c’est vraiment de la publi-information à ce niveau… Effectivement il est en droit d’aimer sa liseuse, mais là ce n’est pas juste un plaidoyer pour le livre numérique en général, c’est de la propagande pour amazon kindle… Le titre de l’article, au lieu d’être « Le livre numérique, vu par un utilisateur averti…» ça devrait d’ailleurs plutôt être « Les produits Amazon, vus par un utilisateur **converti**… » Le cloud tel qu’il le présente peut sembler attractif, mais tel le loup de la fable de la Fontaine « le loup et le chien », au confort d’un service nébuleux sur lequel je n’ai aucun contrôle, je préfère pouvoir coller mon fichier ePub sur l’appareil que je veux, et retrouver la page que j’étais en train de lire, que cela soit depuis ma liseuse Bookeen ou depuis mon téléphone Android avec le logiciel FBReader. Se contenter de souscrire à un service, c’est vraiment signer un contrat en blanc avec une entité dont l’unique but est le profit. Quel est la contrepartie pour le lecteur ?

8 Powerful Tips for Marketing Your Business With Ebooks Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment. The YEC provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business's development and growth. Your company's Twitter handle has a healthy amount of interaction, your status on Skype is set to chat with customers, and your email marketing strategies are always segmented and split-tested. Make room on virtual bookshelves for your next ebook — those (often free) PDFs a few dozen pages long that people from all over the world are reading from their iPads and Kindles. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs how to seize the ebook opportunity to not only grow your business, but also to establish yourself and your company as an up-and-coming industry authority. 1. - Trevor Mauch, Automize, LLC. 2. What does your audience need help with? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Feedbooks | Votre libraire 100% numérique Convert ePub to Kindle Fire - Read ePub Books on Kindle Fire Newly bought the Amazon's new tablet - Kindle Fire? As you know, Kindle Fire has access to over 18 million movies, TV shows, apps, games, songs, books, newspapers, audiobooks, magazines, and documents. Reading on Kindle Fire is a great enjoyment. Are you craving to read blogs, newspapers, digital magazines and books on Kindle Fire? In this article, I will show you how to convert ePub to Kindle Fire in 3 methods. Read ePub on Kindle Fire in PDF Format With online ePub to PDF Converter, you can read ePub on Kindle Fire in PDF format. Step 1: Copy and Paste the URL: into the Internet browser address area. Step 2: Click "Browse..." to load ePub file. Step 3: Hit button to convert ePub to PDF for reading on Kindle Fire. Read ePub on Kindle Fire in MOBI Format Step 1: Copy and paste the URL: into the Internet Browser address area, such as IE, Firefox, Safari, and so on. Read ePub on Kindle Fire in TXT Format

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