89 16.99 16.99 for your first box. The UK’s prestigious Waterstone’s bookstore chain (the British equivalent of B&N for those unfamiliar) has finally called it a day with its token ebook store, and customers have until mid-June to transition to Kobo.Kids Read Daily Book Club Subscription for young readers age 0-12. New titles are added to these. It’s easy to offer a large volume of high-quality, unlimited access e-books from top publishers at an affordable rate with EBSCO eBooks subscriptions. Set students on the path to learning and help faculty adopt and promote earth-friendly resources with EBSCO eBooks.
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Phonics core Storybooks, plus some additional non-fiction.An original novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times bestselling video game series October 2559. It helped make one of my titles the eleventh bestselling ebook in the UK back in 2011, and while sales hardly compared to Kindle UK, they were well worth having.This brand-new eBook library subscription on Oxford Owl for School includes the Read Write Inc. Designed to support children learning at home whether that’s for consolidation or for remote learning the annual subscription provides access to 109 eBooks.I’ve been with the Waterstone’s ebook store since the beginning. Phonics core Storybooks, plus some additional non-fiction titles, available as eBooks for the first time. Subscription box.This brand-new eBook library subscription on Oxford Owl for School includes the Read Write Inc.
In addition Kobo has both a localized UK store and a partnership with WH Smith.The other small but significant player is Sainsbury, but no indie access to that store.Playster is also in the UK with its subscription service. Waterstone’s joins Sony UK, Nook UK, Txtr UK, Tesco Blinkbox and the subscription service Blloon in the Uk ebook graveyard, leaving token players like Hive, Blackwell’s and Lovereading to compete with the bigger stores.The bigger stores being Amazon Kindle, of course, along with Apple and Google Play. I’m just surprised it took this long.It’s another notch on Amazon’s bedpost.
The store remained open, but hidden, and the Kindle partnership was never taken seriously. After all, at least one indie in the Waterstone’s ebook store – no names mentioned – was outselling the biggest names in publishing and was the most searched for brand in store for three months solid.I was disappointed to see the Waterstone’s ebook project effectively shelved. Ebooks and print books sold in tandem and complemented one another.The phenomenal rise of self-publishing tipped over that apple-cart, and instead of ebooks complementing the print titles, ebooks began to cannibalize print.B&N exacerbated the problem with the self-pub portal, making it easier for indies to sell on the Nook platform (back then Smashwords was the only realistic alternative route into Nook).Daunt possibly had the foresight to see that coming. Why Daunt took it is anyone’s guess, but I suspect Daunt understood the long-term conflict that B&N was later to face – that you can’t cannibalize your physical stores by promoting ebooks.Under the original B&N model that wouldn’t have been an issue, because the ebooks and print books were all from the same supply base.
The only surprise since is that he’s kept the Waterstone’s ebook store open this long.I suspect Daunt has ideological as well as commercial antipathy towards ebooks, but all credit to him for turning around an all-but bankrupt bookstore chain to the pont where it’s now expanding, showing that print bookstores can thrive in the face of ebook and on-line print sales from a far bigger competitor.Without the burden of the Nook – a valiant attempt by B&N, but one destined to fail because the two arms cannibalized instead of complementing one another – B&N might be in a far stronger position, as Waterstone’s is in the UK today.Google is currently partnering with telcos on the ground (literally in this case) to move to the next stage.Long term everyone benefits from these social infrastructure ventures being undertaken by companies like Google and Facebook (think Aquila drones), that will make the internet even more accessible.Loon and Aquila are of course driven by mobile. Back in 2011 the Waterstone’s royalties I was collecting would have kept me in coffee for a year, and I drink a lot of coffee!Even allowing for some exaggeration (de-aggeration?) by Daunt, it was clear the Waterstone’s ebook store was not pulling its weight.How much that was market economics and the obviously powerful impact of the Kindle store, and how much deliberate policy by Daunt, is unclear.By 2013 it was obvious Daunt had no intention of developing the Waterstone’s ebook store, and by 2015 obvious it was on borrowed time. He was going out of his way to belittle its impact, suggesting the revenue from ebooks wouldn’t buy a coffee at the Waterstone’s Costa coffee bar.
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( LINK)◊ ◊ ◊ Augmented Reality Books Are Coming. My first Polish translations will be going live in the next few months.This post was previously published in the International Indie Author Facebook Group on 07 March 2016. They are all there.It’s just as indies that can’t be bothered.Admittedly none of my titles are in Legimi right now either, but that’s just a matter of time. ( LINK)Poland will be in this spotlight this year and next, with several major book fairs showcasing the Polish book market.Publishing Perspectives covers this in a post by Porter Anderson, where I noted in comments,“Poland is a particularly interesting market for ebooks because Amazon has no Kindle store there and is therefore busily surcharging Polish readers for Kindle books unless they have pre-existing accounts from a Kindle country.A lot of Poles have bought Kindles and have accounts set up whilst in Germany or UK, etc, which enables them to buy from the UK or Germany Kindle store without whispernet surcharges, but of course there is very little Polish content being made available in the Kindle store in the first place.Many domestic Polish ebook publishers have taken full advantage of this by supplying ebooks in mobi format as well as epub.”We indies tend to assume it has been the USA that has made all the running in the ebook sector, and of course by market size that’s true, but Poland was fielding ebook subscription services long before Scribd, Oyster and Amazon got in on the act.Check out Legimi (one of the first Polish subscription services, way back in 2013) for one of many Polish outlets where we can sell our Polish translations, should we ever have them available.Of course we all know that’s a waste of time because we all know central and east Europeans wouldn’t want to read our stories set in America and Britain.That’s why there’s no sign in the Legimi store of Lee Child or Karin Slaughter or EL James or Andy Weir or… No, hold on.
A decade that, for publishing, is going to make the tumult of the 2010s seem rather tame by comparison.I’ll be re-visiting the future as we go, because any of us planning on still being on the writing and publishing circuit in the 2020s needs to be preparing now for the challenges ahead. Either my calendar is on amphetamines or February’s gone, April is looming, and we’re well on the slippery slope to 2017, with 2020 just around the corner.A step nearer to the the first decade of 5G and the Internet of Things. Based on those movements and the storyline of the book, the system adds augmented reality elements over the pages.”2016 is simply racing by. You couldn’t make it up.“The technology outfits a physical book with numerous page sensors, touch sensors, and motion sensors to understand the reader’s movements.
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