E-Book Publishers
Abika.com — Features the world’s largest collection of free e-books.
Alive Ebooks — You have to check out these multimedia ebooks. Read The Way of the Peaceful Warrier by Dan Millman in multimedia. Very neat.
Atlantic Bridge — An e-book publisher.
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 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 web site: The Great American Bookstore. Also operates an author community web site at Authors Universe.
CafeRead — Offers 50/50 royalty on any ebooks listed at their site.
Cardinal Books — Email: info@maxxbooks.com. Since 1917. Now an e-book publisher.
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.
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 Architect — Email: ebook@zizzoo.com. How to write and sell from ebooks. Learn how to earn money with your ebook.
eBookCity — A division of Versaware (see below).
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.
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.
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.
Elecbooks.com — They offer a selection of classics that can be downloaded for free.
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.
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.
Fictionwise, Scott and Stephen Pendergast, founders. Distributor of e-books, including e-reads core titles.
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.
GenieBooks, Chris Van Dyk, President, 520 Ericksen Avenue NE, Bainbridge Island WA 98110; 206-842-4322; Fax: 206-842-1825. Email: chris.vandyk@mylero.com. A publisher and distributor of e-books. Publishers get 55% of monies received. Owned by Mylero.com (see below).
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.
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%.
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.
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.
MaxxBooks, Email: info@maxxbooks.com. Since 1917 as Cardinal Books. Now an e-book publisher.
Microsoft Reader — Microsoft’s new initiative to make ebooks readable on any computer.
Millennium Ebook — One of several reading devices currently available.
My Ebooks, Catherine Sitz. Email: mye-books@cox.net. Publish your own novel as an ebook or visit their ebook store.
Mylero.com, Chris Van Dyk, President, 520 Ericksen Avenue NE, Bainbridge Island WA 98110; 206-842-4322; Fax: 206-842-1825. Email: chris.vandyk@mylero.com. A distributor of e-books for the publishing industry, providing a turnkey solution for publishers, from conversion of physical and electronic formats to posting on the web. Supports most major formats. Almost 9,000 books currently available. Mylero owns geniebooks, roxybooks and electricumbrella.
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 plans to make it easy for writers to publish their books in all formats: printed, on-demand, ebooks, and audiobooks.
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.
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.
OzoneBooks, Andrew Carter, Operations Manager; 61-2-990-777-93; Fax: 815-461-64-47. Email: oz@ozonebooks.com. A web site 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.
Project Gutenberg — Attempting to put all the classics and other copyright-free books on the web for anyone to read or download.
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.
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.
RosettaBooks — Has published e-books by major authors such as William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robert B. Parker.
Roxy Books — A division of GenieBooks.com (see above).
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.”
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. Email: postmaster@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).
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.
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, Connie Fowler; 919-757-2062. Email: connie@viovio.com. Offers on-demand 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.
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.
XC Publishing, Cheryl Dyson, Editor, 16006 - 19th Avenue CT E, Tacoma WA 98445. A royalty paying epublisher.
