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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Before starting your ebook business, you should probably know how they work. Your short post indicates a rather extreme lack of understanding of ebook technical issues and marketing methods.
Nook, Microsoft & iPad are not ebook formats; they're devices/platforms, and each of them is capable of reading multiple formats.
Reselling or renting ebooks is legally touchy; you'd need a special contract with publishers or authors to do so with anything currently covered by copyright. Just selling them, including temporary-use ebooks that shut off after a given time, is easier, but many ebook customers won't buy temp books (except for textbooks, and even for those, it's a hard sell).
What kind of ebooks are you planning to specialize in, or were you thinking of a broad range of ebooks? How do you intend to offer titles cheaper, in more formats, or more conveniently than the current ebook stores?
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Thanks Elfwreck, like the fizzog (English for face), you are right that I am inexperienced and I appreciate that this is a legal minefield. I have seen forecasts that there will be 2Bn ebooks read in 2015 and the general view is that the market will be dominated by Amazon, Apple and Google. However, there should be room for other players particularly if you could link up with a major brand eg one of the TV companies. The majority of books sold are best sellers - fiction, biography, business top 20 etc. The publishers, who are quite small businesses compared with A, A and G would prefer to be able to deal with additional outlets and may be happy to co-operate. Thoughts?