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Ibookstore. Novo site da Agência Brasileira do ISBN. E-Books: The Tipping Point? Ten months ago I uploaded Mousetrapped to Smashwords and what was then called Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) – now Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) – almost as an afterthought.

E-Books: The Tipping Point?

I was looking for something to do while I waited for my Createspace proof copy to arrive. Turns out it was the best afterthought I’ve ever had. Back then, I knew nothing about e-books other than by giving my mother a Kindle for Christmas, I was saving real books from the horrors of her page-turning, sunscreen-smearing and unnecessary spine-bending. Therefore I presumed ebooks could only be a good thing, even if all they ever gave to the world was that. ISBNs and the Self-Publisher Part I: The ISBN System. La France adopte un prix unique du livre numérique. Amazon soumis au prix unique du livre numérique, ça va faire mal... C'était prévu, du moins, c'était logique, la Commission mixte paritaire a statué sur la clause d'extraterritorialité concernant la loi sur le prix unique du livre numérique.

Amazon soumis au prix unique du livre numérique, ça va faire mal...

Composée de sept sénateurs et sept députés, la CMP a décidé d'imposer aux revendeurs situés sur un territoire étranger, mais vendant en France, d'être soumis à la législation des revendeurs basés en France. Le député Gaymard, qui avait jugé une telle solution inapplicable, n'avait pas manqué d'ironiser sur la situation. « Constatant demain qu'une plateforme de téléchargement située hors de nos frontières brade des fichiers numériques détenus pas des éditeurs français, que va-t-on faire ? Une cyber-attaque ? Une frappe préventive ? » Francia, prezzo unico per gli ebook. Roma - Un comitato parlamentare francese ha votato all'unanimità una proposta di legge per imporre un prezzo unico agli ebook in vendita in Francia.

Francia, prezzo unico per gli ebook

La misura normativa rappresenterebbe in parte la contromossa pensata dal legislatore francese alla diversa disciplina fiscale riservata agli ebook: ad essi la legge finanziaria per il 2011 (in vigore dal primo gennaio 2012) riserva un'IVA al 5,5 per cento contro il 19,6 del resto dell'editoria. La politica del prezzo unico, in Francia, interessa già i libri cartacei, ma secondo la proposta della commissione bipartisan ora dovrebbe essere estesa anche a tutti i siti che commercializzano libri elettronici, limitandosi a quelli non "arricchiti" da altri contenuti multimediali.

L'estensione è stata accolta con favore dal sindacato nazionale dell'editoria. Toccati dalla normativa saranno anche gli store digitali stranieri, come quello di Amazon o iBookstore di Apple. Claudio Tamburrino. La Francia imporrà il prezzo unico per gli ebook. La Francia è una nazione molto attenta allo sviluppo e alla diffusione delle tecnologie, e spesso è precursore a livello legislativo, nel bene e nel male, di piccole cambiamenti che influenzano non poco il rapporto tra il cittadino e la rete.

La Francia imporrà il prezzo unico per gli ebook

Il mercato degli eBook non sembra voler decollare, nonostante la comodità della consultazione digitale e la disponibilità ormai di un catalogo estremamente corposo. Segnali positivi iniziano a vedersi dal Regno Unito e dagli Stati Uniti, dove ad esempio la casa editrice Hachette incassa il 20% del suoi introiti con il comparto digitale, o in università dell’Oklaoma, dove è stato condotto un’interessante esperimento.

Ma in generale le motivazioni di questa lentissima diffusione non sono facilmente delineabili. UK general title digital book sales soar to £16m ... 3 May 2011Last updated at 02:13 General title books are increasingly being read on digital devices, the data shows Sales of digital books are soaring in the UK, figures from the Publishers Association show.

UK general title digital book sales soar to £16m ...

The association said that in 2010 sales of e-books and audio book downloads in the "general titles" category, which includes novels and consumer titles, shot up from £4m to £16m. Academic and professional books still dominated overall digital sales, which reached £180m last year. It still remains a small proportion of total book sales, which hit £3.1bn. However, the increased digital sales suggests devices such as Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader are increasingly making an impact. Copyright review Richard Mollet, chief executive of the Publishers Association, said: "Digital publishing is growing at an impressive rate in whichever part of the sector you choose to look.

In the US, electronic books sold more than either hardbacks or paperbacks in February. Project Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad ... What the printing press meant for copyist monks. January eBook sales more than doubled, but at the cost of print? March 24th, 2011 · by spolanka · 1 Comment From an article at Read Write Web by Audrey Watters: “The Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its figures from January 2011 book sales, and the news echoes what we’ve come to expect: more readers are turning to e-books, and they’re doing so in droves.

January eBook sales more than doubled, but at the cost of print?

In face, e-book sales have more than doubled since the same time last year. According to the AAP, e-book sales are up 115.8%, from $32.4 million to $69.9 million year-over-year.” Watters asks, But how does that impact the rest of the publishing industry? According to the numbers, there were overall declining sales for books. Breakdown in those sales: Adult mass market paperback fell over 30%Adult paperbacks dropped almost 20%.Adult hardcover sales fell 11%Children’s hardcover sales fell 2%Paperback sales fell 17.7%Altogether, the drop in sales of these two key elements of the publishing industry amounted to a $50 million decline.

EPUB. EPUB (short for electronic publication; sometimes styled ePub) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).

EPUB

Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an EPUB reader can optimize text for a particular display device. EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. The format is intended as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard.[2] History[edit] EPUB became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.[3] Brazil's E-book Market Still Crawling. Tipos Digitais.