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Quote: Only? Find More Posts by fbrII. Find More Posts by wallcraft. Find More Posts by AnemicOak. Non-Apple users, however, should give it a wide berth. The store itself offers titles from both mainstream and independent publishers, but it doesn't have the same volume of content as Amazon. You'll struggle to find free ebooks to download, whereas Amazon's list of free titles feels endless. In that time, it has grown to become one of the largest ebook sellers on the web.
The site has both an online reader and a downloading tool. That means you can read a book directly through your web browser; it's a useful feature if you want to do some light reading while also working on other projects on your computer. Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of independent ebooks. It lets budding authors publish their work for free and provides a way for them to get into larger retailers and libraries. From a reader standpoint, the library has more than , books available.
According to the company, 70, of them are available for free. The Smashwords homepage offers some filters that you won't see in many other places, including a word count filter under 20, words, over 20,, over 50,, and over , , and filters for essays, plays, poetry, and screenplays.
Barnes and Noble is the largest brick-and-mortar bookstore in the United States, with more than retail stores. The company also makes the NOOK ereader. NOOKs are arguably the best alternative to a Kindle and their largest competitor in the market. The Barnes and Noble ebook store contains more than 3 million paid titles and 1 million free ebooks.
If you buy ebooks from Barnes and Noble but want to read them on your Kindle, there are a couple of hoops you need to jump through. Firstly, you need to convert the books into a different format. If you want to see the differences between the Amazon and Barnes and Noble ereaders, read our article pitting the Nook versus the Kindle. The Kindle store also offers a wealth of new releases and bestsellers. Google's ebook store doesn't have quite the following that Amazon or Barnes and Noble does, but that's likely because there's no hardware reader directly attached to it.
Google will fix that problem with the launch of the iriver Story HD , which will be the first ereader to come pre-configured with Google eBooks. For the rest of us, Google offers Android phone and tablet apps, iOS apps, apps for Sony and Barnes and Noble's Nook ereaders, and web access to their rapidly growing catalog of literature. Best of all Google partners with local bookstores and libraries to make book purchasing and borrowing available in brick-and-mortar locations.
Before there was a Kindle or a Nook, there was Project Gutenberg, offering stacks of royalty-free, DRM-free literature to read on almost any device, completely free. The service is still going strong, and while its catalog has been eclipsed by its commercial competitors, it's still the go-to service for books and literature that are in the public domain. The service has over 36, completely free and DRM-free ebooks that you can read on multiple devices, and you can choose the file format that works best for you, and another , books available through the service's partners and affiliates.
To completely ignore a retail channel of that size makes zero sense. The best strategy for an indie author seems to be to keep some of their titles in wide release, have some in KindleUnlimited, and experiment with what combination works best and generates the most income. Conclusions Our look at the wider world of ebook retailers tells us that the rise of ebook sales in general, and indie publishing in particular, are not limited to the US nor to a single retailer Amazon ; they are international, industry-wide phenomena.
The US currently leads the world in both ebook penetration rate and the indie share of that market, but other ebook markets are starting to catch up: particularly the other 4 major English-language ones. And, somewhat counter-intuitively, self-published indie authors are proving to be far more capable of taking advantage of their global digital reach to achieving commensurate international sales than traditionally published authors are.
Back in our October UK report, we made the then-surprising to us discovery that best-selling indie authors in the US were far more likely to also be best sellers in the UK than their best-selling traditionally published US counterparts.
The same held true in the opposite direction as well, with best selling UK indies outperforming best selling traditionally published UK authors when it comes to their cross-Atlantic sales in the US market. In the comments on that report, noted author and author-advocate Harry Bingham explained the reasons behind this apparent discrepancy far better than we could.
They only have a real success with maybe 1 in
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