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This page features a list of ebook production and distribution services. Please note that this list is a work in progress. If you know of other ebook conversion service, ebook distributor, or ebook publisher who should be added to this list, please email John Kremer. A listing here does not imply an endorsement. Do your due diligence before signing with any service. Thanks for your support. — John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
See also page-flipping ebook services and sites.
1001 Ways to Market Your Books, 6th Edition describes more than 1,000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing books, print-on-demand books, and ebooks - all tips illustrated with real-life examples showing how other publishers and authors have marketed their books.
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August 2008. ISBN: 0-912411-49-X. 704-page softcover. $27.95.
Abika.com - Features the world's largest collection of free e-books.
Alive Ebooks - 775 E. Blithedale #188, Mill Valley CA 94941. You have to check out these multimedia ebooks. Read The Way of the Peaceful Warrier by Dan Millman in multimedia. Neat.
All Books Free - Free ebooks: novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books.
Amazon Kindle eBooks - Allows you to upload ebooks from Word docs to the Amazon Kindle reader sales program. You can upload Kindle ebooks ready for sales in less than one hour.
Amazon now offers a Kindle program to allow anyone to read a Kindle ebook via the web. Details: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000579091.
Read the above Amazon page because it also tells you how you can embed a Kindle ebook sample on your blog or website and earn referral fees from sales.
=> 44% of Kindle owners make more than $80,000 a year (Nielson)
=> 83% of their parents would allow or encourage their children to read books on an e-reader (New York Times).
=> 27% of Kindle owners have Master’s degrees or doctorates (Nielson).
=> For every 100 hardcover books Amazon is selling, it sells 143 Kindle ebooks (Jeff Bezos).
=> Some publishers are now considering including advertising in their ebooks (Wall Street Journal).Atlantic Bridge - An e-book publisher.
Baen Books - This science fiction publisher offers many of its titles as free ebook downloads.
Barnes & Nobel PubIt! - A digital self-publishing platform that allows authors and self-publishers to publish ebooks for the B&N Nook platform. The neat thing is that PubIt! will convert your Microsoft Word, text, or HTML files to ePub format at no cost! PubIt! support: http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=support.
Beast Stew - Offers ebook publishing and illustration. Specializes in children's fiction with off-beat and humorous artistic styles.
Blue Feather Web Design, Sandra Marie Hall, Editor, Florida. Email: blufthr@aol.com. Book editing, production, print, ebooks, web publishng, Facebook, Twitter, and more. Offer both print and ebooks. They only charge for work done.
Book Baby - For $99 set up and $19 per year after the first year (per book), they will convert your ebook and distribute it to Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Nobel's Nook, Sony's Reader, and Apple's iBookstore. You keep 100% of the money that comes in after the four ebookstores take their cut. Guidelines for getting your book file ready for ePub conversion: http://www.bookbaby.com/epubconversion.
BookBrewer - Allows users to create ebooks from manuscripts or blogs. $89.99 for an ISBN number and your ebook sent to various online stores. $199.99 for an ePub file that you can sell anywhere you want.
Book Design, Simon Cheshire. Offers a service helping fellow writers turn manuscripts into ebooks for the Kindle and iBookstore.
BookLocker.com - Specializes in non-fiction how-to. Offers an eFulfillment service.
BookMice - This site is an electronic publisher of fiction and nonfiction for women (and a new children's section). They also offer many resources for writers, women, and kids (safe-surfing sites). They offer a free ebook to anyone visiting their site. They are now accepting new manuscripts.
Books Gone Digital - Online sales site for digital books (primarily PDFs).
Books OnScreen, Kim D. Blagg, President, Page Free Publishing, 733 Howard Street, Otsego MI 49078. Email: publisher@pagefreepublishing.com. Provides set-up services. Also offers ebooks and POD through their website: The Great American Bookstore. Also operates an author community web site at Authors Universe.
Books Should Be Free - Free audio book downloads in mp3, iPod, and iTunes formats. Lots of audio books, especially copyright free books.
BookSoft Technology, Steve Johnson, Manager of Business Development. Email: info@booksoft-technology.com. Prepress service, ebook conversions, desktop publishing, Flash animations, and website design.
CafeRead - Offers 50/50 royalty on any ebooks listed at their site.
Calibre - A downloadable software for managing and converting ebooks. Outputs epub, html, mobi, pdf, and text files to epub, FB2, OEB, Mobi, PDB, PDF, TCR, and text (among other formats).
Cardinal Books - Email: info@maxxbooks.com. Since 1917. Now an e-book publisher.
Convert A Book - Email: cj@convertabook.com. Specializes in converting books into epub and mobi ebooks.
Caution: At least one user has complained that the above service did not fulfill their commitment to upload the epub conversion to four web book retailers as promised.
CyberRead, Marilyn Jenkins, President, 11700 Mukilteo Speedway #201, Mukilteo WA 98275; 425-315-1434; Fax: 425-315-8835. Email: info@cyberread.com. Founded in 1999, this ebook publisher and distributor currently features more than 5,000 ebooks. They distribute titles via Amazon.com, BN.com, and 125 other retail web sites. CyberRead converts, sells and distributes eBooks in up to 8 formats including Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, and Adobe Acrobat formats.
Cyclops Media, David Spiselman; 650-728-1715. Email: bizdev@cyclopsmedia.com. They handle the order processing, credit cards, download, accounting, and customer service for ebooks you want to offer from your website. They will also take your Microsoft Word file and translate it into Adobe Acrobat and MS-Reader formats.
Design Publications - Mike Carver; 01322-408128; Cell: 07768-978792. UK-based ebook and paperback pubisher helping first-time authors to get their books published. You can submit online.
Digital Owl, Matt Gomez, Manager, Marketing Communications, DigitalOwl.com, 7071 University Boulevard, Winter Park FL 32792; 407-421-9365. Email: matt@digitalowl.com. An Internet software company that enables information commerce for premium content via the Web.
Digital Pulp Publishing, Genene Miller Coté, 877-382-2100; Fax: 760-406-4276. Email: gmc@dpppress.com. Ebooks by authors, self-publishers, and independent presses. Ebook store plus conversion services for ebooks. Ebook store at http://www.dppstore.com.
Digitz.net, Mitchell Davis, Founder. Email: mitchell@digitz.net. They have created a back-end fulfillment system for e-booksellers and online publishers. When a customer sells a title, a perfect bound, custom built, full-color cover book is printed and shipped in 48 hours with paper of a higher quality than a standard trade paperback.
Dream Back Books - An ebook publisher.
E-reads - Founded by literary agent Richard Curtis, this company now publishes some 1,400 titles (primarily fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, horror, and romance)
eBook.com - Features many page-flipping ebooks for sale.
eBook Architects, Joshua Tallent, Austin TX; 512-939-3466. Email: joshua@ebookarchitects.com. Also: http://www.kindleformatting.com. Specializes in formatting and converting books for sale on the Amazon Kindle ebook device. Fiction and nonfiction, easy or difficult. User comment: Joshua is Great! He formatted my book into Kindle as well as all the other e-book formats at a very good price. I liked him a lot.
EbookArtist - An ebook design and conversion company specializing in photography books and children's books.
eBookCity - A division of Versaware (see below).
Ebook Conversion, Bob Mehta, Supremus Group; 515-865-4591. Email: bob@ebookconversion.com. Converts book to various ebook formats.
Ebookexplorer.com - Email: rachel@ebookexplorer.com. Offers a directory of niche ebooks and how-to guides on hundreds of special interest topics. If you publish an ebook version of your book, you should be listed here.
eBook Impressions - Email: info@ebookimpressions.com. An e-bookstore with a wide variety of ebooks available for download at any time.
EbookIt, Bo Bennett, CEO, 365 Boston Post Road #311, Sudbury MA 01776; 855-326-6548. Email: publisher@ebookit.com. Allows authors to convert their books into ebooks and distribute them via digital retailers. Partners include Amazon.com, iBookstore, Google, Reader Store, B&N, Kobo, Borders, and more. $149 per book from a .doc file to $249 per book from a .pdf file. Discounts for 10 or more titles.
eBookMall, Mark Owens, Nevada City CA; 530-265-5200; Email: mowens@ebookmall.com. This mall offers the largest selection of Microsoft Reader eBooks on the Internet, more than 2,400 titles. They offer a total of 10,000+ titles (including those in Adobe PDF, Palm, and Instant eBook formats).
Ebook Nation. Email: info@ebook-nation.net. Your one-stop shop for all of the hottest ebooks. At an affordable price (some are even free).
Ebook Services, Dhiraj Aggarwal, India; 91-98100-50809. Email: info@e-bookservices.net. Ebook creation, copyediting, proofreading, typesetting, etc.
EbooksTalkToMe, Wanda Carruthers, 2363, Lakeside Drive, Birmingham AL 35244; 205-733-2684; Fax: 205-980-1745. Email: wanda@ebookstalktome.com. An ebook publishing and marketing company.
eBookWeb.org - An ebook information site.
eBookZoo - They offer ebooks in a variety of subjects.
Ebrary.com - Offers nonfiction and reference books in ebook format (PDF or HTML formats). The first publishers who sign up for this service will get an 80-20 split with Ebrary (in favor of the publisher) on any books sold.
eCub - A simple free epub creation tool. Very basic, not a lot of formatting options.
Elecbooks.com - They offer a selection of classics that can be downloaded for free.
Electric Book Works, New Zealand; 27-21-448-8336; Fax: 27-88-021-448-8336. Email: silma@electricbookworks.com. Offers editing, proofreading, ebook creation, manuscript assessment, cover design, typesetting, project management, and consulting. They also offer a self-publishing option at Mousehand: http://www.mousehand.co.za.
Electronic Book Aisle - Digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video from Overdrive.com.
Ematter - A division of FatBrain, now overwhelmed by MightyWords (see below).
eNovel, Alex Papajohn; 804-783-0621. Email: alex@enovel.com. The first ebook site to turn an author's manuscript into a published ebook in only 15 minutes.
EPubBud - Allows you to create an epub version of yoru book for free. As well as sell it. Allows you to include YouTube videos into your epub books. Really neat.
ePress Online. Email: info@epress-online.com. A royalty paying e-publisher now accepting submissions of novel length works. They are looking for general fiction, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction books relating to the craft of writing. ePress is a division of Writopia which is located at http://www.writersvillage.com/preview/membership-info.shtml. Writers Village is a membership site which offers over 200 writing classes and publishes T-Zero, the writers ezine. Check their submission guidelines at http://www.epress-online.com/submit.htm.
Everybook Inc., Karolyn Kelly-O'Keefe, VP of Marketing, Twelve Oaks Center, 1801 Oberlin Road, Middletown PA 17057; 717-939-3995; Fax: 717-939-8900. Email: ebpress@everybook.net. Their EB Dedicated Reader is the only electronic book that allows you to read two pages side by side. Unit cost: $500 to $2000. Publishers must provide PDR files.
FastPencil, 3131 Bascom Avenue #150, Campbell CA 95008; 866-960-9401; Fax: 408-540-7572. Email: support@fastpencil.com. Offers free writing software to publish books and ebooks, with simple professional book templates. Must pay for POD publishing or ebook publishing (POD, Pdf, or Kindle) and distribution.
Fictionwise, Scott and Stephen Pendergast, founders. Distributor of e-books, including e-reads core titles.
The Fiction Works, Ray Hoy, Publisher. Email: fictionworks@comcast.net. A royalty-paying, non-subsidy publisher of ebooks, audiobooks, and paperback novels.
FifoBooks; 917-355-4867. Email: joubert.nel@infiniteimprobability.com. An ebook marketplace for work from up and coming authors, classics, and out-of-print books. Terms: authors keep 80% of proceeds, set the selling price, and retain all intellectual property rights to the work. The agreement is non-exclusive.
Five Star Publications, Linda Radke, Chandler AZ; 480-940-8182; 866-471-0777; Fax: 480-940-8787. Email: info@fivestarpublications.com. Offers the eStarPublish ebook conversion service where PDFs, Word docs, and other publishing files are transformed into format compatible with Kindle, Kobo, Sony, and iPad. Plus they offer distribution for the ebooks.
Free Books for All - A collection of free nonfiction ebooks: business, cookbooks, self-help, reference, quotations, computer, travel, etc.
Free On-Line Library, Patrick Caron. Email: ezine@globetrotter.net. This online site features 9,200 free ebooks and is willing to feature more from authors and publishers. There is no charge for reading the ebooks, but they do not offer downloads.
Get Free eBooks - Free ebooks. You can list yours here. Alexa rank: 22,035 in April 2011.
Glassbook Inc., 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham MA 02451; 781-434-2000; Fax: 781-434-2001. Email: info@glassbook.com. Their software packages allow people to read e-books, publishers to prepare them, booksellers to sell them via a web server, and librarians to buy them via the web. Their software works on Rocket eBooks, Softbooks, or any PC.
GoodStory.com - This site features screenplays, short stories, stage plays, and other written work in the hopes of attracting professional agents or publishers. Before its launch, you could submit work for free, but now the site charges to feature new works.
Hellicious Horrors Epublishing, Nina Hobson, Publisher. Email: measiren@aol.com. Devoted to young and new horror novelists.
ibooks - This division of Byron Preiss Visual publishes books simultaneously in print and online. They are actively looking for backlist titles. Contact BPreiss@bpvp.com. Distributed to the trade by Simon & Schuster.
ibooks.com, Kim Harrington, Director of Content Acquisition, The Reserve at Bull Creek, 7501 North Capital of Texas Highway, Building C #100, Austin TX 78731-1137; 512-241-7103. Email: kim@ibooks.com. They currently feature 25 publishers, with over 850 books for sale on the site. Their focus in the beginning has been on reference books geared toward technology professionals, but they are looking to expand to other professions.
InfoHeaven Books - Offers “easy, fast, and guaranteed top notch digital ebook service.”
InfoPost Inc., Roberta Pasciuti, Director of Business Development, 770 Lexington Avenue #300, New York NY 10021; 212-980-2800, ext. 110. Email: roberta@infopost.com. Features excerpts and complete issues from literary magazines, journals, and small presses. Non-exclusive. Publishers get 80% of the revenue; InfoPost keeps 20%.
Ingram Content Group, Drew Bordas, VP of Business Operations, One Ingram Boulevard, P O Box 3006, LaVergne TN 37086-1986; 615-213-7392; Fax: 615-213-5811. Email: drew.bordas@ingramcontent.com. Ingram Content offers ebook conversion and distribution services.
Inkwater Press, 6750 SW Franklin Street #A, Portland OR 97223-2542; 503-968-6777; Fax: 503-968-6779. Email: info@inkwaterpress.com. Offers ebooks, full-color children's books, and print-on-demand books. Offers a range of packages with personalized attention. Their titles are available for sale worldwide. Authors retain all rights over their works.
Internet Book Company - A new e-publisher and e-bookshop that has just begun retailing ebooks to the public.
James Russell Publishing, James Russell, Publisher, 780 Diogenes Drive, Reno NV 89512; 775-348-8711. Email: scrnplay@powernet.net. This book publisher now offers to publish ebooks from authors.
Adam Jemdam Books - Download ebooks or get your own work published as an ebook for free.
Jutoh - A multiplatform software solution for creating ebooks in the following formats: epub, html, txt.
Kirkhams Ebooks, Software, and Videos - Printable ebooks, software and videos on topics including martial arts, fitness, education, weight loss and more. Feel free to browse or submit your own.
Lending Library - Offers books for free reading.
Library Tales Publishing, Usher Morgan, CEO, 244 5th Avenue #Q222, New York NY 10001; 718-247-9414 or 347-394-2629; Fax: 917-463-0892. Email: usherm@librarytales.com. Andrew Monroe, Editor; Email: andrewmonroe1445@gmail.com. Ebooks on all topics.
Libre Digital - Motto: Freedom to publish, freedom to market, freedom to sell, freedom to control. Provides ebook publishing, marketing, and distribution services to many large publishers. No info on pricing.
LibriVox - Free audiobooks of public domain books.
LinkEbooks - Ebooks retailer for multiple formats and all categories. 25% commission on sales. Details: publish@linkebooks.com.
ManyBooks.net - Features ebooks in many genres, all free.
MaxxBooks, Email: info@maxxbooks.com. Since 1917 as Cardinal Books. Now an e-book publisher.
Microsoft Reader - Microsoft's initiative to make ebooks readable on any computer.
Millennium Ebook - One of several reading devices currently available.
Mmooks - Email: info@mmooks.com. Multimedia + Books = MMooks. Looking to create more iPhone and iPad apps in partnership with publishers.
M-Y Books, Jonathan Miller, 187 Ware Road, Hertford, Herts SG13 7EQ, United Kingdom — Ebook publishing, distribution, and marketing service based in the UK.
My Ebooks, Catherine Sitz. Email: mye-books@cox.net. Publish your own novel as an ebook or visit their ebook store.
My Free Read, Lisa Davis, 904 Silver Spur Road #111, Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274. Email: info@myfreeread.com. Visitors can download free ebooks, newsletters, book excerpts, and articles on this site, and the site will pay authors 20 cents every time their ebook is downloaded successfully. Sign up as an Affiliate Author at http://www.myfreeread.com/affiliates.htm. There's no cost to post your material and start earning commissions.
NetBooks.com, Alex Kanakaris, CEO, Kanakaris Communications, 3303 Harbor Boulevard #F3, Costa Mesa CA 92626; 314-937-9094; 888-466-5282. Their primary service is to provide online access to your e-books for as low as $249 (including creation from your text and graphic files, order fulfillment, web presense, and downloading). They will also set up and create a print-on-demand version of the book for an additional $499. Current clients include Hunter Publishing, Silver Lake Publishing, Lionhearted Publishing, DelStar Books, Humanics Publishing, and New Concepts Publishing.
NetLibrary, Boulder CO; 800-413-4557. Currently offers 13,000 titles from more than 150 publishers. Its titles are offered via libraries around the country as well as on its web site.
NetRead - This publishing portal tries to make it easy for writers to publish their books in all formats: printed, on-demand, ebooks, and audiobooks.
NewFiction.com - Offers free audio books, primarily episodic fiction.
Nitelinks, Laura Higley, President, P O Box 41, Haskell NJ 07420; 973-831-1263. Email: laura@onyxcat.net. An electronic books (both downloadable and CDROM) royalty publisher.
Novo Ink, Devlin Donaldson, President; 877-540-6022. Offers faith-based Christian publishing of ebooks and ezines. Via the Zinio reader platform, they can publish books that included enhanced content (audio, video, and animation).
Nuvomedia - See Rocket Books below.
Online Originals - Generally offers authors a 50% royalty on ebook sales. Frederick Forsyth published Quintet via this company.
Open Ebook - Develops standards for ebooks.
OverDrive Systems, 440-519-0877. Overdrive is an ebook developer for PCs, the Internet, CD-ROM, and Softbook. Offers ebook and audiobook outsourcing to many libraries.
OzoneBooks, Andrew Carter, Operations Manager; 61-2-990-777-93; Fax: 815-461-64-47. Email: oz@ozonebooks.com. A website where you can publish your articles, books, and reports as ebooks. You can also join their Reseller Program and earn money by referring others to buy at their site.
Palm Digital Media, Jeff Strobel, President, 11 Coolidge Road, Wayland MA 01778; 508-358-6639. Email: jeff@peanutpress.com. They currently offer electronic books for the PalmPilot and Windows CE family of hand-held computers. Formerly known as Peanut Press, they were bought by Palm Inc. and their software renamed as the Palm Reader.
PDFtoEPub - Allows users to convert PDF ebooks to Kindle and ePub ebooks (for use on the Kindle and iPad). $39.95 download.
PDFtoKindle - Allows users to convert PDF ebooks to Kindle ebooks (for use on the Kindle). $39.95 download. Now part of the PDFtoePub program describe right above.
Pinnacle Technology - Provides ebook formatting and distribution to the key ebook outlets (iPad and Kindle). Clients include Dover Publications, NYU Press, World Public Library, Fry Communications, and Columbia University Press.
Project Gutenberg - Attempting to put all the classics and other copyright-free books on the web for anyone to read or download.
Publishers Row, Alexander Gendler, President, 9001 Keating Avenue, Skokie IL 60076; 847-568-0593; 888-81E-BOOKS. Email: agendler@publishersrow.com. $95 to turn your print PDF file into a professional prepared Kindle and ePub ebook. If you have more than 50 titles to sell, they will build you an eBookstore for free.
PublishingOnline.com, John Moore, 1200 South 192nd Street #300, Seattle WA 98148; 206-439-9257; 888-730-7266; Fax: 206-246-8154. Email: johnm@PublishingOnline.com. Founded in 1999, they buy rights from publishers for e-book versions of printed books. For authors, there is a $500 set-up fee; publishers are paid a licensing fee.
Questia, Linda Cunningham, Vice President of Content. With $45 million in venture capital, this company intends to make the content of 250,000 educational texts available online. Students will be able to license parts of a book or the entire content. 60 publishers have already signed on.
Reality Information Systems, Building No 4, Block A, Office No - 001,
The Manjari Stud Farm Pvt Ltd, Pune – Saswad Road, Phursungi, Pune – 412 308, India; 91-20-4060-4800. Email: enquiries@realityinfo.com. Converts Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, text, and other formatted books into ebooks for the ePub standard, Kindle, and other ebook formats.RealRead, Email: sales@RealRead.com. This site brings the bookstore experience online. Web shoppers can review tables of content, page through indexes and view text and graphics just as they appear in the original.
RFI West - They publish in ebook and POD formats at no cost to authors. They edit and copyedit as well as produce the books.
Rocket eBook, NuvoMedia, 310 Villa Street, Mountain View CA 94041; 650-314-1200; 877-7ROCKET. Fax: 650-314-1201. Web: http://www.nuvomedia.com. New York office: 140 West 22nd Street, 7th Floor, New York NY 10011; 212-807-0258; Fax: 212-807-0663. Unit cost: $299. Publishers provide html files. Currently offers 4,000 titles.
“Barnes and Noble is already selling electronic books for the Rocket ebook online. Several big publishing houses are currently converting hundreds of books to ebook editions for sale online. Companies like Amazon.com have already proven that online book sales can be very lucrative, and the Rocket eBook alone, sold over ten thousand readers to early adopters in its first six months on the market.”
Romance Foretold, Tracie Clark, Director of Marketing, 50 Gema, San Clemente CA 92672. Email: tsclark1@pacbell.net. A holding company for three e-book publishers that publish genre romance, dark fantasy, and paranormal/general fiction: Starlight Writer Publications, Dark Star Publications, and Pulsar Books.
Romeii LLC, Steve Delmont, Director, Hudson WI; 888-465-8272; Cell: 651-206-7888; Fax: 651-344-0609. Helps authors to be published in Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle formats.
RosettaBooks - Has published e-books by major authors such as William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robert B. Parker.
Sam101, Diane Carter, P O Box 333, Marietta GA 30061; 770-499-0127. Email: diane@sam101.com. Specializes in business ebooks. “Ebooks have two purposes 1) to educate consumers, small businesses and entrepreneurs on your field of expertise, and 2) to market you to potential clients via viral marketing.”
Seattle Book Company; 206-780-1787. Converts printed books into a variety of ebook formats.
Shareware-Ebook.com, David Leithauser. Email: leithauser@aol.com. “I offer a nonexclusive contract to publish self published books as ebooks. I ask for no money up front. It is basically a no-lose situation for writers.”
Sigil - A WYSIWYG ebook editor with metadata and table of contents support. Imports text, html, and epub files; exports to epub or SGF (the Sigil native format). A Google service.
Signalman Publishing, John McClure, President, 3209 Stonehurst Circle, Kissimmee FL 34741; 407-343-4853; 888-907-4423. Email: john@signalmanpublishing.com. They take an book, no matter how complex the formatting (tables, photos, graphs, etc.) and format it so it looks great on Kindle, Nook, iPad, Sony, and other ereaders. They also help clients get ebook distribution.
Smashwords, Mark Coker, Founder, 15951 Los Gatos Boulevard #16, Los Gatos CA 95032. A digital self-publishing platform for independent ebook authors. Authors retain full control over how their works are published, sampled, priced and sold. If an author wants to charge one dollar or ten thousand dollars, or give it away for free, they have that freedom.
SoftBook Press, 1075 Curtis Street, Menlo Park CA 94025; 650-463-1800; Fax: 650-462-0992. Email: info@softbook.com. Unit cost: $599. Publishers provide html files.
SoftLock — This site, chosed by the publishers of Stephen King, allows you to sell ebooks with security measures so the files cannot be copied. The PDF file of your book is only viewable of someone pays to unlock it. SoftLock also actively promotes its for-sale content via an affiliate network. Subject to the company's approval, your book can be set up at no cost to you. The company makes its money from commissions on the sale of ebooks and other online content.
StoneGarden.Net Publishing - Kristofer J Stamp, Owner, 3851 Cottonwood Drive, Danville CA 94506; 925-984-7867. Email: kstamp@stonegarden.net. "High quality ebook publishing since 1997. All authors and all genres welcome."
Supremus Group, Mike Milkhe, Business Development Manager, 4224 Village Lane #15, West Des Moines IA 50266; 515-865-4591. Email: mike@itglobalsolution.com. Helps authors and publishers convert their printed books, Word documents, etc. to ebook formats such as Mobipocket and MS reader. The content can be complex (i.e., consist of many images, tables, charts, graphs, colors, or fonts).
Thought Audio - Free audios of classic fiction and nonfiction.
Threepress Consulting - Provides tools for verifying that your epub ebooks are valid. Also includes educational videos and seminars on creating ebooks.
TrueFire.com, Rob Newton, P O Box 60789 (33784); 2887 22nd Avenue N #D, St. Petersburg FL 33713; 727-527-4954; Fax: 727-328-0881; Email: info@truefire.com. They provide free publishing for book authors, screenwriters, poets, artists, and musicians. Their agreement is non-exclusive. You retain all copyrights, set your own pricing, can add/delete content anytime you want, and share revenues 50/50 with them. As a publisher you have access to a private stats page. You can also place a link back to your web site within your bio information.
Twenty or Less Press, Chris Jensen, Director. Email: cbjensen@twentyorlesspress.com. A full service ebook publisher of short fiction under 20,000 words in all genres. They pay royalties and never charge fees to authors. For accepted submissions they provide editing, illustration, formatting and distribution to all major electronic outlets.
USDI Solution Private Limited, #3, Raja Street, Kallimadai, Singanallur, Trichy Road, Coimbatore - 641 005, TamilNadu, India; 91-422-4347269; Mobile: 91-9698221899; Fax: 91-422-2595399. Email: pratap@usdi.in. Website: http://www.bookgenie.in. They do typesetting, ebook coversions, digital asset management, and other publishing services.
Versaware Technologies, 151 West 25th Street #600, New York NY 10001; 212-727-8577. Email: info@versaware.com. Versabook technology transforms any digital text into a cross-referenced, sub-divided, searchable, media-enhanced interactive e-book. The e-books can be made available via CD-ROM, the Internet, e-book readers, palm PCs, and DVD-ROM. “Versaware can provide you a with complete ePublishing program, from strategy to full implementation. Our Conversion facility is processing literally thousands of books monthly for major publishers. Our Multimedia capabilities make ebooks come alive and offer true added value for readers at reasonable cost. Our Digital Warehousing lets you securely store, sell, and deliver your content to hundreds of e-retailers over the net. And we build innovative consumer products-reference centers, libraries, customized books, proprietary stores and more-so you can develop multiple revenue streams from your electronic content today.”
Viovio.com, Christian Fowler. Email: support@viovio.com. Offers on-demand B&W and color photo books in a range of hardcover and paperback sizes as well as photo-sharing and PDF publishing tools.
VirtuaLibro - A new epublisher specializing in Spanish language books.
VMC Art & Design, Victoria Colotta, President, P O Box 153, Allendale NJ 07401; 201-760-1343. Offers complete production of ebooks.
Wings ePress, B J Haynes, President. Email: bjhaynes@starband.net. A royalty paying publisher specializing in electronic and trade paperback books. Their staff includes highly trained editors and copy editors, who work with their contracted authors to produce quality fiction.
Word Wrangler Publishing, Barbara Quanbeck, Owner, 332 Tobin Creek Road, Livingston MT 59047; 877-733-2865. Email: wrangler@wordwrangler.com. E-book publishers. They also feature books from independent e-book publishers.
Writer Print, Mark Tibbert. Fiction ebooks.
XC Publishing, Cheryl Dyson, Editor, 16006 - 19th Avenue CT E, Tacoma WA 98445. A royalty paying epublisher.
Zinepal - Allows users to convert a blog or website to a PDF, ePub, or Kindle ebook. Try it out. See if it works for you.
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