Travel between the new electronic publishers

In the U.S., most companies involved in electronic publishing did not come from direct experience of publishing online but the industry has become a kind of new Klondike. Who are these publishers? In a dimension in which the object does not exist as a book can be a difference between producer-retailer and distributor of a book?

Amazon, Barnes & nobles, InternetBookshop, all major online book retailers, have opened the sections devoted to e-book, which mostly sells products made by themselves. But there are only large libraries, there are also large software house that produces programs to read and display the new digital books. At the time, in fact, there is still a standard display and shared many companies are fighting for supremacy in the field. They, too, mostly thought to promote the best standards had become publishers in all respects.

Among the best known producers of software for e-book is certainly Alexlit, but in this sector are also active Microsoft and many others. Some of these are the same people who produce the tools of reading, the e-book physical, the handheld devices that will allow us to have an entire library in a single physical object. They too have come to the conclusion that there was no better way to advertise their products and to become publishers. This applies to Glassbook, Rocketbook and Softbook, which are the three best-known companies in the sector. Finally there are the good old publishers. McGrawHill, for example, has implemented a system for online consultation of some of its most popular guides. The price for the consultation is less than half the cost of the volume and the supply seems to have had some success.

As to the authors, the first past to history, at least in the media, it was Stephen King. The March 14 game for almost put up for sale on the Internet Riding the tacks: 400 thousand copies in 24 hours. Immediately after he finished in his old network a story in episodes, The plant, which remained in the drawer for years, the ridiculous price of a dollar. The initiatives were so successful that after many months even if they speak.