digital book publishing

Do you publish rich design books such as illustrated books, cook books, educational books, or children’s books? Do you need to deliver your books not only in print but also to digital devices such as smartphones and the iPad™?

You may have started to release some of your front list titles as apps for smartphones and tablets, but what about your back list titles, how can you turn them into digital editions in the most cost-efficient way?

who needs ink!  lets you both publish complete new digital books and turn your back list into digital editions, providing the fastest return on investment in publishing illustrated digital books.

Options

Single Book with a Single Reader App

The reader downloads one App from the App store. This contains a single book for them to read.

You have the option of charging for the App or giving it away free of charge.

There is no up-front payment for multiple publications, other platforms require as much as a $5000 buy in to their platform even to publish one book!

Multiple Books with a Single Reader App for each

This is essentially bulk licence purchasing. The model is the same as the single book. Each book has it’s own app, the reader must download each one individually.

You are free to set the price point for each app individually.

Multiple Books with a Bookshelf App and In-App Purchasing

This model allows for the reductions in price of multiple licence purchasing, but the reader only needs to download one app.

This mirrors the systems of the large publishing houses and the expensive framework providers such as Adobe. The reader downloads one app which is laid out as a bookshelf (similar to iBooks on iOS from Apple).

You have the option of offering your books for sale or to give them away. The reader purchases them from within the app.

* We have used 30 books as an illustration, the number of licenses you buy is entirely up to you.