When Amazon.com says it already sells more Kindle books than paperback and hardcover books, e-publishing is finally ready for prime time. The march of technology is unstoppable, books and lifestyle magazines are going tablet as iPad and Kindle are gaining more grounds into people's daily life.
If you are into the digital content or publishing world, check out these 2:
Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is the fast and easy way to self-publish your books for sale in the Kindle Store.
With Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) you can self-publish your books on the Amazon Kindle Store. It's free, fast, and easy. Books self-published through KDP can participate in the 70% royalty program and are available for purchase on Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Android-based devices. With KDP, you can self-publish books in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian and specify pricing in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling, and Euros. You will also find useful information on our active community forum.
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
Google One Pass is a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content.
It offers purchase-once, view-anywhere functionality, so users can view the content they buy across all of their devices.By providing a system for user authentication, payment processing, and administration, Google One Pass lets publishers focus on creating high quality content for their readers. Publishers have flexibility over payment models and control over the digital content for which they charge and the content that is free for consumers.
http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/
A recent survey by eMarketer daily shows that One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014:
Sources:
Digital future of publishing
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/209577
Amazon Now Sells More Kindle Books Than Hardcover and Paperback Combined
http://techland.time.com/2011/05/19/amazon-now-sells-more-kindle-books-than-hardcover-and-paperback-combined/
One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008701&ecid=a6506033675d47f881651943c21c5ed4
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All the arguments against e-books are about external incidentals – the feel of a book, the crinkle of the pages and so on. None of these things has anything to do with what makes a book worth reading – that it’s a well-written, thoughtful and compelling story.
John Biggs, an editor at TechCrunch, has predicted that by 2013, e-book sales will surpass all other book sales (not just at Amazon.com). By 2016, lifestyle magazines will go tablet-only. By 2020, every high school and college student will have an e-reader. Finally, by 2025 the transition would be complete with print largely disappearing even in the developing world. If Robert Andrews, the UK editor of PaidContent.org, is to be believed - Last year, he posted an article where he cited the rising cost of newsprint and the inefficiency of delivering newspapers via trucks as reasons why “printing on paper may increasingly look like just another cost that, soon, could be removed from the balance sheet”. Asians are crazy about mobile gadgets and tablets are as popular here as they are overseas. So, the writing is on the wall as far as print publications are concerned. It’s now up to the publishers – established ones as well as new ones yet to emerge – to ride the digital trend. |
Progress of Digital Publishing
If you are into the digital content or publishing world, check out these 2:
Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is the fast and easy way to self-publish your books for sale in the Kindle Store.
With Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) you can self-publish your books on the Amazon Kindle Store. It's free, fast, and easy. Books self-published through KDP can participate in the 70% royalty program and are available for purchase on Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Android-based devices. With KDP, you can self-publish books in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian and specify pricing in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling, and Euros. You will also find useful information on our active community forum.
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
Google One Pass is a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to their digital content.
It offers purchase-once, view-anywhere functionality, so users can view the content they buy across all of their devices.By providing a system for user authentication, payment processing, and administration, Google One Pass lets publishers focus on creating high quality content for their readers. Publishers have flexibility over payment models and control over the digital content for which they charge and the content that is free for consumers.
http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/
A recent survey by eMarketer daily shows that One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014:
Sources:
Digital future of publishing
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/209577
Amazon Now Sells More Kindle Books Than Hardcover and Paperback Combined
http://techland.time.com/2011/05/19/amazon-now-sells-more-kindle-books-than-hardcover-and-paperback-combined/
One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008701&ecid=a6506033675d47f881651943c21c5ed4
