| Barnes and Noble officially announced its second generation self-publishing platform Nook Press back in April. The company sought to develop a new system that was easily scalable and could push new updates very quickly. In retrospect, its first foray into publishing never received a single update since it launched a few years ago. Today, all ebooks and account data has been migrated from PubIt to Nook Press. All of your titles, account information, and sales history have been transferred over to the new system. Nook Press provides an all-in-one solution that allows authors to upload existing Microsoft Word documents and instantly see how they look in EPUB, or create EPUB documents from scratch using the online tools. One of the barriers to ebook creation is being able to constantly refine your work; many self-publishing platforms do not allow you to make changes in the web-interface and demand you make the changes locally and then re-upload the finished result. Nook Press allows authors to make any changes on the fly and even create an interactive table of contents, something that makes everyone's life a little bit easier. Many authors love to know how their sales and metrics are doing for a title they have just released. Nook Press has new analytical functions that can give you an immediate report on every single purchase made. It is on a 3 hour delay for sales reports, as the company has to verify credit card data and other purchasing information. You can see the raw numbers, or juggle the graph data to show how it is performing over time. Right now Nook Press is only available for self-published authors in the US and you can market your books across the country and also in the UK. This is the biggest limitation of the system, that you shoot yourself in the foot by only appealing to two different markets. Kobo and Amazon both have a huge international footprint and may give you more viable sales channels. Barnes and Noble PubIt! Accounts Migrated over to Nook Press is a post from: E-Reader News |
Friday, July 12, 2013
Barnes and Noble PubIt! Accounts Migrated over to Nook Press
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