Jan

03

Apple to launch new Self-Publishing Program later this month

By Michael Kozlowski

Apple is going to be holding an exclusive event in New York city later this month to possibly launch a new program for their iBooks and Publishing platform. Sources close to the matter have told us that they intend on launching a new digital self-publishing platform to get peoples content into the iBookstore. This is a huge step forward for Apple to compete with Amazon (DTP) and Barnes and Noble (Pubit).

One of the only ways to get listed into the Apple iBookstore if you are an independent author is to go through a 3rd party such as Smashwords. They assign you a free ISBN for choosing them and they will submit your books to iBooks and tons of others.

Apple will be taking a cue from the new Amazon program that gives indie authors an incentive to publish exclusively with them. There is no details yet on the actual semantics of the program and how it will work. One has to wonder on the revenue share system they will employ to be competitive with other mainstream self-publishing systems. The one thing we were told is that they will use the EPUB format and make it very easy for people to convert their documents or existing books to comply with their format.

Michael Kozlowski (2919 Posts)

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the Huffington Post, CNET and more. Michael frequently travels to international events such as IFA, Computex, CES, Book Expo and a myriad of others. If you have any questions about any of his articles, please send Michael Kozlowski an email to michael@goodereader.com

Categories : Digital Publishing News, E-Book News, Tablet PC News

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Thank you for sharing your articles, I hope you have an interesting and creative new year.
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http://profiles.google.com/adan1950 Adan Lerma
sounds interesting, found ya’ll via an email from The Ebook Daily, glad i did
i’ve already been able to produce epubs, but the stumbling block for me via apple’s ibookstore’s been the isbn requirement (i have several decades of poetry and writings i’m just beginning to digitize into ebooks etc) which smashwords and amazon took care of in their own ways
so, among many questions exclusivity? commissions? etc, i’m interested in the isbn factor
look fwd to future posts from ya’ll, now that i found ya’ll
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Vllevares
Wow! This is really great news for authors who are planning to engage in self-publishing. Indeed, Apple sticks to its promise of being sensitive to the needs of its users. I will look into this and check out how I can maximize this program. I already tried a similar program in
http://99cent-books.com and so far, it has been working well.
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Ronnie Ray Jenkins
This is great news in publishing. Competition is necessary in a marketplace where there are hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of ebooks out there. The effect on conventional publishing with the advent of ebooks had directly effected this segment of the market, and many times with competition, the buyer will actually get more choices, and most times a better product. I’m all for it.
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http://profiles.google.com/cjewel Carolyn Jewel
If Apple is going to insist on exclusivity they’re going to have a hard time competing. Hopefully that’s not the case.
Anonymous
This looks as though it were written by an eighth-grader. Do you have an editor? I can barely make out what it is supposed to say.
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Noo Sramishkankar
They are going to launch it, or “possibly” launch it?
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http://twitter.com/Tech_Gone_Wild Ezekiel Carsella
finally i have been waiting for this upportunity. also mhender668 that is not a very hard article to write.
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Thanks Adan, glad to have you aboard! We normally write a ton of articles daily and we will be next week at CES AND the Digital World Book Expo and the week after that, visiting the e-ink Research and Development HQ in the US to check out whats cooking for 2012.
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Good news for us authors. You can check my book on amazon for your kindle devices.
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