How much should an ebook cost? Subscribe to our free email newsletter. We'll update you once or twice a week, and we'll never rent or sell your email address to anyone. Thanks. This is the wrong question. The right question is: How much will an ebook cost? Because the answer isn’t up to one author or one publisher or even a price-fixing cartel. On one hand, the marginal cost of delivering a single ebook is close to zero. (People who disagree with that statement don’t understand the concept of marginal cost and should look it up before participating in this discussion. In a market where the marginal cost is close to zero, prices tend to race to zero as well. Except when there are no substitutes. So our analysis begins with the notion that there will be at least two price points for ebooks. But what about books where there is no obvious substitute. Here, we need to take a moment and think about the nature of a substitute. That means that pricing of the future looks like: Zero: promo titles $15: current bestsellers
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How to read EPUB books on your Kindle Amazon’s Kindle is probably the most popular ereader out there, but it doesn’t support the EPub format. Here’s how to convert your collection of books in the EPub format, maybe from Google Books, eBooks.com , AbeBooks, or another online collection, so that you can read those EPub files on your Kindle. They will appear on your book menu and can be read just like any other Kindle ebook. Yes, you can read an ePub book on your Amazon Kindle, but not in EPub format, you must convert it first. How to read EPub books on your Kindle Can the Kindle read EPubs? To Start – Download Calibre Calibre is an ebook management software program. Installing Calibre is as simple as downloading it and running the setup program, accepting the license, and then clicking install. The last setup screen, shown below, offers you the option to run Calibre right away. There is no real need to configure anything further. Now connect your Kindle device. You will be prompted to Auto-convert the file(s), just click Yes. .
What makes a good-looking eBook: Tips on eBook design for standard titles While I was pleased to read about FutureBook’s first Digital Innovation Awards last year, I was disappointed not to see a category for ‘Best eBook’ alongside 'Best app/enhanced eBook/interactive book'. It would have been nice to have had a shout-out for perfectly normal ebooks, with no bells and whistles but intelligently produced and sensitively designed, in recognition of the difficulties of achieving the latter in the standard reflowable EPUB format. Of course, if FutureBook did create this category, it would probably have to take it down even by the next round of awards, as technology and standards are constantly improving and hopefully we will soon reach the point where there is no need to celebrate ebooks that have the functionality and design that we would expect from an HTML-based medium. So, what are the challenges of standard reflowable ebook design? Given the number of limitations, the concept of the ‘good-looking ebook’ might seem oxymoronic. Paragraph indentation. Styling.
kindleonlinehelp B Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying “light reading,” in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older — but then I discovered that I didn’t have this problem when I read paperbacks. When I discussed my quirky recall with friends and colleagues, I found out I wasn’t the only one who suffered from “e-book moments.” This seems like a particularly troubling trend for academia, where digital books are slowly overtaking the heavy tomes I used to lug around. VIDEO: Trippy Video: Inside the World Series of Memorization Kate Garland, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester in England, is one of the few scientists who has studied this question and reviewed the data. Second, the book readers seemed to digest the material more fully.
How to Put Free Ebooks on Your Amazon Kindle The Amazon Kindle is a great ebook reader, but it's tightly tied to Amazon's ecosystem. If you have a Fire tablet or a smartphone, you can download other e-reading apps to beef up your library, but with the E Ink Kindles (including the Kindle$69.99 at Amazon, the Kindle Paperwhite$119.99 at Amazon, and the Kindle Voyage$199.99 at Amazon), you're pretty much tied to getting your content directly from Amazon. Well, sort of. Using a bit of free software, you can take ebooks in the EPUB, Mobi, and PDF formats and zap them over to your Kindle lickety-split. Here's how to do it. EmailThe easiest way to put books on your Kindle is to do it via email. To get your Kindle's email address, go to www.amazon.com/myk using your PC's Web browser. Now click "Settings" and scroll all the way down to the "approved personal document e-mail list." Remember, your Kindle needs to be attached to a Wi-Fi or 3G network for this to work. The key is a free piece of software called Calibre.
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future by Jason Epstein The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible. This historic shift will radically transform worldwide book publishing, the cultures it affects and on which it depends. Meanwhile, for quite different reasons, the genteel book business that I joined more than a half-century ago is already on edge, suffering from a gambler’s unbreakable addiction to risky, seasonal best sellers, many of which don’t recoup their costs, and the simultaneous deterioration of backlist, the vital annuity on which book publishers had in better days relied for year-to-year stability through bad times and good. Though Gutenberg’s invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect.