Mobile publishing for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and other Smartphones
Since 1996, the Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN) has been committed to supporting authors and independent publishers as a nonprofit trade association. Its mission is to help members build successful writing and publishing businesses in the fast-changing publishing industry. UP is proud to sponsor an exciting new e-publishing program to benefit SPAN:
Are you one of thousands of authors and publishers today who recognize that e-publishing is the wave of the future... but feel frustration from technical complications, up-front costs, paperwork -- and the business challenges of dealing with heavy handed companies that stand between you and your reading audience?Or perhaps you have a promising but unproven new manuscript, and want to test the market for your work before publishing in print... while retaining creative control and rights?
Or you may work in a genre unsuitable for commercial trade book publishing: poetry, short stories, photography, drawing, etc.?
Or maybe you just want to try a cool new technology for sharing your creativity with people with people around the world?
If so, keep reading for an exciting new solution that requires NO up-front investment, minimal technical hassle, and gives you a slick new way to deliver full-featured e-books to tens of millions of smartphone users.
"Smartibooks"� Solve Your e-Publishing Problems! A promising new solution for delivery of e-Books to smartphones (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, etc.) is now available from AppsPublisher.com, through a special affiliate program, courtesy of SPAN member, Unlimited Publishing LLC:
Use the link below to open a free Smartibook account. Be sure to use the special affiliate code SPAN2010 to get the highest payout (35%) available from AppsPublisher. (If you do not use the promotional code, your payout will be 30%.) You will need a Paypal account to receive royalty payments. After signing up, you will receive a prompt confirmation with a username and password.
Log in and submit your material. Please click HERE for step-by-step instructions. The submission process normally takes less than half an hour.
Your book will be converted to a stand-alone application for smartphones, with the ability to search, enlarge type size, insert notes, read at night with backlighting, and many other useful features. Click HERE to view a video of a real Smartibook in action. (No audio; please allow 60-90 seconds to load.) Or click HERE for screenshots that illustrate the visual richness and functionality of a recent release.
About two weeks after completion, the new download will become available to the public from the Apple App Store, followed by other outlets. You set the price, and may change it at any time.
About 90 days after readers start purchasing copies, you are paid 35% via Paypal, less a one-time processing fee of $5. (The fee is deducted only from the first payment for each e-Book title submitted. It does NOT recur thereafter.)
Because each e-Book is a stand-alone application, readers need no other software. It is NOT necessary for the buyer to install an external e-Book reading program, because each e-Book downloaded is completely self-contained. Once installed, applications run on only a single phone. This reduces the danger of piracy.
Concerned about eroding print sales? On the contrary, our early research suggests that many readers of Smartibooks will use them as low-cost "previews" before buying in print.
This program is NOT limited to larger publishers or "name" authors. It is open to any author or publisher who wants to start e-publishing without a lot of technical hassle, up-front expense or paperwork.
Unlike other programs that are limited to US markets only, this one makes e-Books available to readers worldwide.
Authors and publishers are free to e-publish elsewhere in other formats, while using this platform for smartphones, with more sophisticated features and less risk of piracy.
Smartibooks aren't limited to single-purpose e-Book reading devices. They give authors and publishers a chance to reach more than 50 MILLION people who already use smartphones... with millions more coming each year, hungry for content to download.
Please click HERE to enroll,
using the special affiliate code SPAN2010 for an extra 5% payout.
People under 30 (the next generation of readers) are inseparable from their smartphones. Most report that their smartphone reading experience is more than satisfactory, including the ability to search, enlarge type, insert notes, read at night with a built-in backlight feature, and more. Young consumers also appreciate the benefits of saving paper and trees, cleaner air, and conserving the energy required to print and ship printed books.
For these reasons, it is virtually certain that more and more books will be read on smartphones in the years ahead. But the foresighted publisher can get started today, with remarkable ease and economy, with this exciting new affiliate program for mobile publishing, courtesy of Unlimited Publishing LLC.
