Comments on: Digital Publishing: Looking at the Business Model https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anthony S. Policastro https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170437 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:49:59 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170437 Hi Kassia,
You make some great points here. I invite you to take a look at Outer Banks Publishing Group, one of the first publishing houses to use the latest digital printing technologies, social networking, virtual marketing, and the Internet to publish, promote, and sell books in electronic formats as well as in print.
We offer the following:
– No Advances
– Higher author royalties
– Authors are paid when we are paid
– 6 weeks or less to market
– Books are launched as ebooks first and then in printed form based on sales.

Take a look at http://www.outerbankspublishing.com

]]> By: Remembering English https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170401 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:14:57 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170401 […] become more and more popular. And speaking of, check out this story about the two latest devices.  Booksquare also posted a blog that takes a good look at digital […]

]]> By: Pepper Smith https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170355 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:45:35 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170355 Finn Ha, try going to http://www.epicauthors.com

This is the EPIC website, which has a list of ebook publishers (the link to the list is in the sidebar, I believe). This is not a comprehensive list of every epub out there, but there are quite a few on the list.

]]> By: Chris Eastvedt : For Digital Publishing, Love is a Battlefield https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170352 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:23:42 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170352 […] before working out the bugs in their business model, but as I don’t have any more specifics than what Kassia has provided, I’m not qualified to comment […]

]]> By: Friday Link Love 9/18 | Brad’s Reader https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170349 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:23:50 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170349 […] Digital publishing: Looking at the business model […]

]]> By: Literature Crazy https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170348 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:25:58 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170348 I find it really interesting that romance has been a front-runner in ePublishing (and I have my own personal reasons why I think these individuals have adopted this technology); however, I wonder if there aren’t other target markets that are ripe for the picking. Most specifically, I notice that hardly anyone is discussing a movement toward ePub with YA books, but I would be inclined to think that the readers of YA are (by and large) very comfortable with technology, and (knowing that they spend several hundred dollars on gaming systems, iPods, etc.) are not naive to the ways of aquiring expensive equipment that outdates itself relatively quickly. (I’m sure begging their parents, whining, and/or throwing fits are involved, but none the less.)

That being said, focusing on getting ePub to work in the YA market can be crucial to making it work globally because the readers of YA are (by and large) tomorrow’s readers of literary fiction, mystery, SciFi/Fantasy, Romance, Chick Lit, Westerns, etc., etc., etc.

I think that the youth need to be seen as a key group of reader/stake-holders.

]]> By: What’s the Buzz: Digital Pub Insights; Free Downloads | Publishing Perspectives https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170346 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:24 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170346 […] the subject of ebooks, Kassia Krozser has another blog post about digital publishing business models. One of the founders of Quartet Press, which shut its doors before they were really open, Krozser […]

]]> By: Kassia Krozser looks at the digital publishing business model | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170344 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:08:03 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170344 […] her second major posting related to the closure of the publishing venture she was involved with, Kassia now takes a look a […]

]]> By: Finn Harvor https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170343 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:48:12 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170343 Ahh, my name is….

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]]> By: Finn Ha https://booksquare.com/digital-publishing-looking-at-the-business-model/#comment-170342 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:46:58 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3402#comment-170342 Yes, very good article. One resource, however, that I think people would appreciate is a listing of e-publishers at one site. Maybe this exists already. (If anyone reading this thread knows of one, please give the URL.) Right now e-publishing is obviously in early days, but if contact info about it could be consolidated, I think that would help its growth.

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