Make Money with the iPad: The iBooks
The iPad uses the EPUB format for electronic books. The EPUB format was used by other popular book readers such as Stanza, and Sony Reader. The EPUB format is an open standard format that was invented by the International Digital Publishing Forum. It has been widely used by publishers and conversion houses to distribute the sale of eBooks.
The EPUB format is designed to offer publishers and conversion houses the ability to distribute and sell electronic books. It supports digital rights management for copyright protection.
If you are a publisher, and you want to get your book into the iBookstore, you must convert the manuscript to the EPUB format. It is not clear whether independent writers will be able to self publish on the iBookstore. However, Apple did announce that they will be accepting books from both major and independent publishers.
If you own a Mac , you can use the free Calibre ebook management tool to convert the document in the EPUB format. The Calibre ebook management tool can convert books in a number of different formats to EPUB. If your ebook requires a lot of formatting, the EPUB editor may suit you. Examples of EPUB editor include Sigil which is a free EPUB editor that can operates on multiple operating systems including Mac OS X.
The iStudio Publisher is a full featured desktop publishing application that allows you to export your document in EPUB format. However, it is unclear whether the iStudio Publisher can convert document with photographs and diagrams. The Adobe InDesign CS4 tool can also be used to design and publish EPUB format books.
According to the New York Times, Apple’s agreement with publishers will offer provisions to discount book prices on bestselling books. Although the iBookstore is not yet open for business, it seems that the agreements between the publishers and Apple will offer more flexibility in pricing. Apple will also offer some titles at a cheap discounted price.
In addition, Apple has signed deals with five major publishers including Penguin, HarperCollins, Simion & Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette. Apple plans to offer 70% of revenue to publishers. Once users purchase the ebook, they will be able to download to their iPad device. The iBookstore will be the only way where users can purchase the ebooks to use within the iBook application.
Digital rights management is not necessary since the content cannot be copied to another device once It is downloaded from the iBookstore. Apple has implemented the same iPhone technology on iPad so that is a closed and locked device. Other users will not be able to access the underlying file system. The books that are purchased from iBookstore can only be read with the built- in ibook reader app in iPad.
iBookstore is extremely fast, easy and convenient. Users can easily search within iBookstore to find the best buyback price for their books. You will be able to review offers from multiple sources through the easy to compare market. You no longer have to go from bookstore to bookstore to be told no one wants to buy your book.
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Ian del Carmen is the CEO of Fireball Group of Companies and has been an Internet entrepreneur since 2006 releasing his first-ever membership site at MobileEbooks.net and cashing in on mobile marketing even before the iPhone is released and even before all the so-called mobile marketing gurus popped up. He researched and tested different ways to be the one of the best first movers in the iPad market and released the course “iPad Riches”. To learn more, go to: http://budurl.com/iprjv
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