Welcome Publishers

We are pleased to welcome publishers to our website, thank you for taking the time.

Some publishers are already producing ebooks and are looking for a reliable method of distributing them over the Internet while others may be interested in discovering how they can get into this rapidly expanding sector of the book market. Either way bookselecta can help by providing an efficient ebook retailing service that will guarantee your ebooks maximum exposure throughout the world. (This service is coming soon - if you want us to notify you when it is available please send us an email with the word 'notify' in the subject line)

Why Use Bookselecta?

• Exclusive Admin Page for each contributing Publisher -
  .- Upload/Edit Facility for your Titles, descriptions, graphics etc
  .- Dynamic Statistics allowing you to check downloads by title
  
• Guaranteed Promotion
  - One of only 4 UK websites listed by Microsoft
• Guaranteed Promotion
  - A link from every MS Reader ebook to Bookselecta via Microsoft
• Guaranteed Promotion - Google Adwords
• No set up Fees!
• No standing Fees!
• Monthly payments
• The only cost is our 50% Retail commission deducted at source

If you are a serious eBook publisher and would like to see your titles distributed to other retailers around the world we are working on a solution for you.

Ebookpathway

Until recently Bookselecta had an inventory of over 10,000 ebooks supplied by an ebook depository in the USA from publishers around the world. Originally the arrangements were that retailers collected payments for downloads and paid the depository a net amount that included payment of the publishers net price plus a commission to the depository. In 2004 the depository decided to implement monthly fixed charges to both contributing publishers and retailers in addition to their commission. The result was that many publishers and retailers, including Bookselecta, have pulled out of the scheme.
As a result our parent company is developing a new ebook depository called ebookpathway. Once launched, the new website will provide a portal for ebook delivery from contributing publishers to ebook retailers worldwide. If you want us to notify you when this service is available please send us an email with the word 'notify' in the subject line.

The future of Publishing

Whether we like it or not this is a technological age and although many believe that people will not accept such a dramatic transformation in the way books are delivered and read, they may be burying their heads in the sand. Indeed statistics released by the Oebf show that ebook sales are expected to top $10 million in 2003, having grown by 40% in 2002.

In Japan Sony have just launched 'The Librie', the first ebook reader that uses 'E Ink' technology. E ink provides an electronic display that looks like and works like paper. Once the words form on the page they stay there without power until the reader 'turns over'! This technology will revolutionise the way books are read; within a decade or so paper books will become a curiosity rather than the norm!

ebooks are here to stay and will continue to take a greater and greater share of the published book market - a bold statement perhaps, but while older generations may be reluctant to accept the change at first, the young won't - they will embrace it, just like every other change that technology has introduced.

Think back a decade or two

Who would have believed that just about every person in the developed world would have his own cell-phone?
When we struggled to come to terms with that first PC with its 1mb RAM, a processor speed of 20Khz & its clumsy DOS software, did any of us realise that within 15 years nearly every home would have its own multimedia PC with 512mb RAM, 2Ghz processing speed and a huge range of sophisticated business and home entertainment software? - That we would all be corresponding by e-mail, watching digital films, listening to music played from compressed audio files, shopping on line, banking on-line - that our collective knowledge would be accessed through the power of search engines rather than leather bound encyclopedias.

So ask yourself again, but turn the question around - Can I afford not to get into e-publishing? If the answer is 'No', maybe we can help.

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