Comments on: How I Spent My Summer Vacation https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:59:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Friday’s Interesting Links | Tales to Tide You Over https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-173255 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:59:06 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-173255 […] An in-depth look at digital publishing:http://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/ […]

]]> By: road roller https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-172938 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:47:13 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-172938 Hi. What amazing testimony, thank you. I’m working on a pretty similiar project here in Brazil, and businnes costs are impressive and scary.

I think I know just what you were dealing with, and honestly, the only way around the problem as I see it is to go into the epublishing business with your eye on a specific niche.

You need to sell your own books and not rely on traditional distributors. In fact, I would suggest a completely new model: create an affiliate sales model and allow authors, bloggers, etc., to carry your books on their sites and take a small percentage of sales. Then you can have 10,000 distributors instead of Amazon.

]]> By: DBW Profile: Don Linn, Optimistic Book Lover | Digital Book World https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-171583 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:33:41 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-171583 […] and get up and running in a fairly short time frame. But over the course of four to five months it became clear that with the current eBook distribution system, it just wasn’t going to […]

]]> By: Self-Publishing Review — Blog — The Quartet Press Story https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-171310 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:45:37 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-171310 […] Krozser of Booksquare and partner in Quartet wrote about the difficulties of navigating the incredibly complex world of e-publishing.  She writes, The first thing you need […]

]]> By: Marianne LaCroix » Blog Archive » More ranting on epubs… https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-170571 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:15:13 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-170571 […] I read this post too: http://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/ […]

]]> By: Site Seeing: Booksquare | Ditchwalk https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-170396 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:02:42 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-170396 […] of Booksquare.com. I don’t know her, but I feel like I know something about her from reading this post on her site: Welcome back from whatever you did this summer. Me, I spent my time building a digital […]

]]> By: Dave Bell https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-170356 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:14:38 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-170356 It strikes me that there are some similarities between eBooks and the models made for low-cost CGI, which are sold by outfits such as DAZ 3D and Renderosity.

There are some big differences as well. You buy the model data to use in creating an image, and that doesn’t seem to me to fit well with the conventional IP thinking which is out there. Derivative works?

]]> By: The Quartet Press Story | Self-Publishing Review https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-170332 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:39:42 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-170332 […] Krozser of Booksquare and partner in Quartet wrote about the difficulties of navigating the incredibly complex world of e-publishing.  She writes, The first thing you need […]

]]> By: Digital Publishing: Looking at the Business Model | Booksquare https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-170320 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:16:42 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-170320 […] you might imagine, I am still dissecting the past few months, and today I want to focus on business model. Some of this might seem antithetical to how […]

]]> By: Karen Wester Newton https://booksquare.com/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-170319 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:39:48 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3397#comment-170319 This is a wonderful post; thank you for sharing your expertise. I hope publishers do figure it out before a lot of them go under. And I wish you all success in the future.

For @Tymber Dalton, there is a free conversion for Word, PDF, etc. to go to a Kindle; you email the document to Amazon and they email it back to you in “Kindle format” which is just Mobi with DRM. Then you have to cable the resulting file to your Kindle. Since the email conversion that sends directly to the Kindle is only 15 cents a MB, I usually rely on that. In fact, I just blogged today about how you can buy ebooks form Ficitonwise and have them go straight to your Kindle.

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