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Friday, March 08, 2013
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Sexy Reading, Hot Fiction by Neale Sourna!!
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Sexy, hot, romantic, erotica, too _ you choose! Print books and ebooks.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
$3.2 billion in revenue/2011: Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era
Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels.
“It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital,” Creative Strategies president and principal analyst Tim Bajarin told AFP.
Online retail giant Amazon has made electronic readers mainstream with Kindle devices, and Apple ignited insatiable demand for tablets ideal for devouring online content ranging from films to magazines and books.
In 2011, digital books earned about $3.2 billion in revenue, an amount that the combined momentum of e-readers and tablets is expected to triple to $9.7 billion by the year 2016, according to a Juniper Research report.
Readers are showing increased loyalty to digital books, according to the US Book Industry Study Group (BISG).
Nearly half of print book buyers who also got digital works said they would skip getting an ink-and-paper release by a favorite author if an electronic version could be had within three months, a BISG survey showed.
“The e-book market is developing very fast, with consumer attitudes and behaviors changing over the course of months, rather than years,” said BISG deputy executive director Angela Bole.
Concerns about ebook reading are diminishing, with people mainly wishing for lower device prices, according to the survey.
Owning e-readers tended to ramp up the amount of money people spent on titles in what BISG described as a promising sign for publishers.
Major US book seller Barnes & Noble responded to the trend by launching an ereader, the Nook, and other chains are picking up on the strategy, according to Juniper.
“I’m among those who believe that the new e-book craze expands a person’s interest in reading overall,” said Gartner analyst Allen Weiner.
“When you can get someone excited about reading in any way, you turn on the reading ignition and it leads to all content,” Weiner said, adding that ink-and-paper works will continue to hold a place in the mix.
Bajarin believes it will be at least a decade before print is obsolete.
“For one thing, there is a generation of people above 45 who grew up with this reading format and for many this will remain the most comfortable way for them to consume content for quite a while,” he said.
“However, younger generations are already moving rapidly to digital representations of publications and, over time, they will be using e-books and tablets to consume all of their publications.”
Weiner expected hardback or paperback books to be preferred in some situations, such as home reading, even as digital dominates publishing.
“I think it is a myth that it is going to kill the print book business,” Weiner said.
“Will it force publishers to think differently?” he asked rhetorically. “Absolutely, but it doesn’t spell the demise of print (book) publishing.”
Newspapers and magazines, however, should read the digital writing on the wall, according to analysts.
“Newspapers and magazines have different issues,” Weiner said.
“Print will wind up extinct for newspapers, while magazines will need to figure out the balance between print and digital,” he contended.
Newspapers spend a lot of money printing and distributing daily editions that can’t be kept as fresh as stories on the Internet.
Meanwhile, advertising has been moving online where audiences can be better targeted and advertisers pay when people actually click on ads.
In 2011, media colossus News Corp. launched an iPad only publication, The Daily, as newspapers big and small improved mobile websites and invested in applications to get their publications on tablets.
Struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo! has been recreating itself as a platform for “premier digital content” and in November it launched a Livestand news magazine tailored for the iPad.
Livestand weaves video, pictures and text in easily navigated presentations in a challenge to popular iPad social magazine application Flipboard.
Time Inc. last month brought in digital advertising veteran Laura Lang to run what is the largest magazine publisher in the United States.
“Magazines are still figuring it out,” Weiner said of adapting to the smart tablet age. “I think they are in evolution.”
As if online competition weren’t enough for the print magazine business, the US Postal Service is proposing to do away with weekend deliveries in a move that could make weeklies seem like even older news by the time they arrive.
Agence France-Presse
AFP journalists cover wars, conflicts, politics, science, health, the environment, technology, fashion, entertainment, the offbeat, sports and a whole lot more in text, photographs, video, graphics and online.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Where to Buy Neale Sourna / PIE: Perception Is Everything Books and Ebooks
NEW, Sexy and Exciting Ebooks online from YOUR WRITER Neale Sourna.
BUY Adobe Reader (PDF), Kindle-Mobipocket, and Print; epub editions to come.
Find everywhere online! And order offline, too; just ask!
Diesel Ebooks (Adobe Digital / Kindle-Mobi)
Powell's (paperback print book / ebooks
AbeBooks (paperback print books only)
Barnes&Noble (paperback print books only)
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also Amazon's European (Euro), Canadian, Australia / New Zealand Stores
Neale Sourna at Amazon.com (ebooks & paperback print books)
(some items not available _ banned by Amazon)
Amazon Kindle Store (Kindle-Mobi ebooks only)
(some items not available _ banned by Amazon)
Amazon A-store aka Neale's Sexy Store (some items not
available _ banned by Amazon)
Books On Board (nonfiction ebooks only)
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Mobipocket Store (Mobipocket only)
(closes Jan 02, 2012; consolidates all stock to Kindle Store)
Microsoft Reader Store (closed, all MS Reader ebooks out
of production, out of stock per Microsoft 2011)
Fictionwise Ebooks ("Hobble" only)
Palm format ("Hobble" only)
and at other quality online and offline independent and chain booksellers you love!!
Just ask your Wholesalers and Retailers to purchase Neale Sourna / PIE: Perception Is Everything books
and ebooks through Ingram's /Ingram Content or Lightning Source and Amazon Kindle.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Writers' Forum_Re: Amazon changing your pricing to free issues
Re: Amazon changing your pricing to free issues
I don't have pricing problems with them; I do have censor challenges with them cockblocking random storylines.
My bi/gay academy novella about powerful, rich, and randy North Coast student Tad his twink and his teacher and my compilation of other previous short story volumes of North Coast fellow students was also blocked--both without explanation, just a we've cold cocked it--while the individual stories that were compiled are still available on Amazon/Kindle. But not on their Mobipocket which they're now fully consolidating within Kindle.
Tad was my first gay story, so that seemed suspicious.
The rest are highly incestuous and say so in titles but not blocked until consolidated.
Ama. does monkey with prices, I normally sell free material for that .99 USD; but, I also, add additional material, put that notice in the marketing and sell for a bit more.
Do look into going full publisher through www.lightningsource.com of Ingrams they are the largest PRINTER AND DISTRIBUTOR to ALL BOOKSELLERS on the planet, or in the US, or something. They serve random house and ME!!!!
Free uploads of ebooks, set your own prices, and the POD service has gone to eproofing instead of mandatory print copies for POD, making that free, as well, or nearly free.
LS handles the heavy printing, distribution, and paying me monthly, plus easily connect me with Bowker ISBN's include a fifty percent discount I spent my movie extra earnings on of 100 isbns for half price.
I just have to add my marketing and, most important, WRITE my stories and tool my files (or hire someone else to do full formats, been talking to http://www.epubconversion.com/ recently because I'm pretty much thinking the brain cells I'm burning to figure out epub, despite being able to pdf / mobi - kindle / ms reader which is dead now is a waste of my skils).
Anyway, you upload to their higher standards than Amazon's (I've seen some unreadable things there with all smart punctuation codes broken into code not symbols). LS reaches world wide with print groups in US, UK, and Australia, shipping worldwide, plus airport kiosks that print as your wait and cool cutting edge.
Also, I've been looking into EbookMall http://www.ebookmall.com/author/neale-sourna They pull my books from LS, just like Lulu, BN, and everyone else for ebook or print book.
Neale
www.neale-sourna.com
www.pie-percept.com
www.writing-naked.com
I don't have pricing problems with them; I do have censor challenges with them cockblocking random storylines.
My bi/gay academy novella about powerful, rich, and randy North Coast student Tad his twink and his teacher and my compilation of other previous short story volumes of North Coast fellow students was also blocked--both without explanation, just a we've cold cocked it--while the individual stories that were compiled are still available on Amazon/Kindle. But not on their Mobipocket which they're now fully consolidating within Kindle.
Tad was my first gay story, so that seemed suspicious.
The rest are highly incestuous and say so in titles but not blocked until consolidated.
Ama. does monkey with prices, I normally sell free material for that .99 USD; but, I also, add additional material, put that notice in the marketing and sell for a bit more.
Do look into going full publisher through www.lightningsource.com of Ingrams they are the largest PRINTER AND DISTRIBUTOR to ALL BOOKSELLERS on the planet, or in the US, or something. They serve random house and ME!!!!
Free uploads of ebooks, set your own prices, and the POD service has gone to eproofing instead of mandatory print copies for POD, making that free, as well, or nearly free.
LS handles the heavy printing, distribution, and paying me monthly, plus easily connect me with Bowker ISBN's include a fifty percent discount I spent my movie extra earnings on of 100 isbns for half price.
I just have to add my marketing and, most important, WRITE my stories and tool my files (or hire someone else to do full formats, been talking to http://www.epubconversion.com/ recently because I'm pretty much thinking the brain cells I'm burning to figure out epub, despite being able to pdf / mobi - kindle / ms reader which is dead now is a waste of my skils).
Anyway, you upload to their higher standards than Amazon's (I've seen some unreadable things there with all smart punctuation codes broken into code not symbols). LS reaches world wide with print groups in US, UK, and Australia, shipping worldwide, plus airport kiosks that print as your wait and cool cutting edge.
Also, I've been looking into EbookMall http://www.ebookmall.com/author/neale-sourna They pull my books from LS, just like Lulu, BN, and everyone else for ebook or print book.
Neale
www.neale-sourna.com
www.pie-percept.com
www.writing-naked.com
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Ebooks Versus Print Books
Please, people, stop confusing yourselves and denigrating the newer form. Ebooks are print books for the screen! The same file you use for your print book is the same file you can use for--and should use, barring formatting conventions--your ebooks.
The SAME FILE.
The only things that need change or things which need to be tweaked for each specific ebook software you use so that it works properly and LOOKS correct to the human eye. Check for punctuation formulas, like for curly quotes and such falling apart and displaying its codes every time a character speaks in each ebook packing. Or paragraphs not being indented and smooshing together, so everything looks like one tediously long paragraph.
Other than things like that, the text, your story, all that is what you truly wanted to say and publish remains the same. An ebook is a print screen publishing.
The SAME FILE.
The only things that need change or things which need to be tweaked for each specific ebook software you use so that it works properly and LOOKS correct to the human eye. Check for punctuation formulas, like for curly quotes and such falling apart and displaying its codes every time a character speaks in each ebook packing. Or paragraphs not being indented and smooshing together, so everything looks like one tediously long paragraph.
Other than things like that, the text, your story, all that is what you truly wanted to say and publish remains the same. An ebook is a print screen publishing.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Publishing an ebook which is better Lulu or Amazon?
Look at Ingram's www.LightningSource.com for both ebook [adobe, ms, palm] and print books [most bindings and interior color now, colour in UK :)] and they can link you into national and international distribution online and brick/mortars, and airport book kiosks; bring your own ISBNs [www.Bowkerlink.com].
Amazon, I believe, only takes MobiPocket [for Kindle] ebooks, which you can download, set up and upload yourself from MS Word or Adobe Acrobat file.
Your $% cut can be large or small at Ingram's--you control it. Amazon Mobi is 50/50, It think.
It is feasible, once you're in Lightning Source , that you can write, edit, and publish and have on sale within a couple of weeks--all uploaded from your own computer.
You can do all this yourself, I do--with some hysterical hair-pulling, every now and then; but, I can, publish weekly or whatever and it'll be available nationally and internationally.
Or, you can have a layout editor at Elance.com or Guru.com help you (at a price), then upload the files yourself. Price your books above the print rate for print [it's pretty much ALL yours in ebooks] with a % for all the bookstores to share, and the payments (minus the printing rate) come in monthly straight to you--if you have sales.
All this costs a lot less than having a rather printer print and stack books to get damaged in your basement.
Also, Infinity Publishing / BuyBooksOnTheWeb has good low rates to typeset your files, design a cover, and distribute for you. Call [1-877-BUY-BOOK] them for a sample book, which will have all their info for setting up with them, and latest prices.
Neale Sourna
Links:
* http://www.LightningSource.com
* http://www.InfinityPublishing.com
* http://www.Bowkerlink.com
Amazon, I believe, only takes MobiPocket [for Kindle] ebooks, which you can download, set up and upload yourself from MS Word or Adobe Acrobat file.
Your $% cut can be large or small at Ingram's--you control it. Amazon Mobi is 50/50, It think.
It is feasible, once you're in Lightning Source , that you can write, edit, and publish and have on sale within a couple of weeks--all uploaded from your own computer.
You can do all this yourself, I do--with some hysterical hair-pulling, every now and then; but, I can, publish weekly or whatever and it'll be available nationally and internationally.
Or, you can have a layout editor at Elance.com or Guru.com help you (at a price), then upload the files yourself. Price your books above the print rate for print [it's pretty much ALL yours in ebooks] with a % for all the bookstores to share, and the payments (minus the printing rate) come in monthly straight to you--if you have sales.
All this costs a lot less than having a rather printer print and stack books to get damaged in your basement.
Also, Infinity Publishing / BuyBooksOnTheWeb has good low rates to typeset your files, design a cover, and distribute for you. Call [1-877-BUY-BOOK] them for a sample book, which will have all their info for setting up with them, and latest prices.
Neale Sourna
Links:
* http://www.LightningSource.com
* http://www.InfinityPublishing.com
* http://www.Bowkerlink.com
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The Future Role of Agents [excerpted]
September 29, 2009
by Jane Friedman
[more before]
1. KEEPING PACE WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND BUILDING NEW CONTRACTS AND RIGHTS STRUCTURES
...today’s boilerplate contract is inflexible and outdated. One idea put forth by Nash is that contracts become time-based, with potential for renewal, which dodges the sticky “in print” or “out of print” question that now determines the termination of most book contracts.
[more]
2. ESTABLISHING AND GROWING EMPOWERING PARTNERSHIPS AND ONLINE PRESENCES FAR BEYOND BOOK PUBLICATION
...For anyone in this publishing game for the long run, it can’t be about the sale of one book—and this is where sometimes I see a lack of vision across the board. People get so focused on selling a title or in how that title is (or isn’t) supported by a publisher, that they lose sight of the much larger goal of an author’s career.
[more]
...publishers aren’t in the business of producing books, but in the business of building authors’ careers—and connecting writers to readers.
[more]
3. DEVELOPING NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR HOW AUTHORS PAY AGENTS FOR THEIR EXPERTISE AND PARTNERSHIP
...One agency has quietly come out with a new model that requires authors to pay a minimum commission—i.e., the agent must earn a minimum amount on a sale no matter what advance the publisher pays, which means authors would “share” a larger part of the advance upfront (or even pay out of pocket in the case of very low advances).
[more]
But, Agents may take projects knowing they will ultimately be paid by authors rather than by publishers.
[more]
...agents, like publishers, will have to survive by specializing, by being distinctive in some way.
[more]
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Well, if it's specialization, niche craft is right for writers then it's right for agents, too.
by Jane Friedman
[more before]
1. KEEPING PACE WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND BUILDING NEW CONTRACTS AND RIGHTS STRUCTURES
...today’s boilerplate contract is inflexible and outdated. One idea put forth by Nash is that contracts become time-based, with potential for renewal, which dodges the sticky “in print” or “out of print” question that now determines the termination of most book contracts.
[more]
2. ESTABLISHING AND GROWING EMPOWERING PARTNERSHIPS AND ONLINE PRESENCES FAR BEYOND BOOK PUBLICATION
...For anyone in this publishing game for the long run, it can’t be about the sale of one book—and this is where sometimes I see a lack of vision across the board. People get so focused on selling a title or in how that title is (or isn’t) supported by a publisher, that they lose sight of the much larger goal of an author’s career.
[more]
...publishers aren’t in the business of producing books, but in the business of building authors’ careers—and connecting writers to readers.
[more]
3. DEVELOPING NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR HOW AUTHORS PAY AGENTS FOR THEIR EXPERTISE AND PARTNERSHIP
...One agency has quietly come out with a new model that requires authors to pay a minimum commission—i.e., the agent must earn a minimum amount on a sale no matter what advance the publisher pays, which means authors would “share” a larger part of the advance upfront (or even pay out of pocket in the case of very low advances).
[more]
But, Agents may take projects knowing they will ultimately be paid by authors rather than by publishers.
[more]
...agents, like publishers, will have to survive by specializing, by being distinctive in some way.
[more]
-----
Well, if it's specialization, niche craft is right for writers then it's right for agents, too.
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