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So, second, while the Amazon stock may take a little temporary tumble, I suspect the reasons have more to do with the still relatively low price for most ebooks ($ 9.99) and the rise in competition.

All the publishers have to do is price ebooks lower than insanity level.

Let me state this one more time: I don't think lowering ebook prices costs anyone money unless and until they drop under that magic point.

But it puts the pressure on authors to price their eBooks lower, to offer some or all of them for free, and to do it with a smile on their face, even as they are (metaphorically) cutting off pieces of themselves to gain a foothold in the fickle book market.

I also think one reason publishers are trying to keep ebook prices high (despite evidence that it lowers sales) is b / c they don't know how to effectively do business in an ebook market.

Here's a video I did last year talking about how to get your ebook listed for free at Barnes & Noble and Amazon (where the lowest price you can list a book for is technically 99 cents).

Releasing both hardback and paperback at the same time or near each other probably makes sense, as do much lower eBook prices, especially for debut authors.

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would rather sell an ebook for $ 19.99 instead of $ 9.99, because Amazon offers twice the royalty amount for ebooks priced between 2.99 and 9.99, and lowers that royalty for ebooks priced beneath and above that range.

One other note: the demand - elasticity hypothesis holds that lower prices * don't * mean that «downward price pressure on ebooks means we ultimately get paid less.»

1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5) Use your ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break through.

Amazon, for all its vaunted desire for low ebook prices, is still trying to take both the distributor * and * the retailer percentage, and then some... even though they don't actually have to warehouse ebooks or ship them around anywhere.

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

At the start, criticisms of what low ebook prices will do to the print market have been lobbed at the proponents of the under - three - dollar ebook amid claims that pricing an ebook at 99 - cents would ruin the industry.

Amazon is permitted to gain a large share of the ebook market if it does so by providing good products and services at lower prices.

Although this is interesting research, it doesn't matter for most of the publishing market with low - priced ebooks.

If publishers raise their prices like Random House has done and people can not borrow ebooks from the library or buy them for a reasonably low price, they will do as they did for music — download the book illegally for free and share them with all their friends.

Don't forget you can also use pricing as a promotional tool for your ebook, through low - price special promotions and even periods where you offer your book for free.

If your traditional publisher insists on high ebook prices, here's one thing you can do: indie publish some books to the lower price points.

He says he's selling more eBooks for the iPhone than the Kindle (which may have something to do with the lower price).

Unless * publishers * actively embrace lower prices on ebooks, and start pricing their books low enough for retailers to discount them down to indie levels and still make a small profit, I don't think the indie pricing range ($ 1 - 6) is in as much danger as some folks think it is.

Many ebooks don't follow a lower pricing means more sales curve.

Perhaps if the price point were much lower then people wouldn't expect a simple ebook reader to do so much.

Indeed, I just saw a different market share study, done by asking samples of book readers about their purchases, that said that ebooks were now about 15 % of book spending, but about 30 % of book sales, which dovetails with the observation of generally low price for the top selling ebooks.

Just think about it: an ebook borrowed in KU is more visible than an ebook simply bought, because the borrowed book doesn't have to be read to count as a sale, and the KU subscribers will download many more ebooks for a lower price.

People who don't want to buy high - priced ebooks may turn to lower - priced indie published stories like mine.

On the other hand, authors are more efficient at distributing ebooks, mainly because they can price lower because they don't have to carry the overhead of a publisher.

People will try you on a lower price, you don't make an ideal return on investment (ROI), but will make it up with sales of your other higher priced eBooks.

Publishers aren't stupid; they know they can sell more ebooks at a lower price and make money doing so, but they worry about harming existing partnerships.

Their numbers show that they sell more eBooks at one price point than they do at another, which suggests an author could see more sales of eBooks at the lower price point than the higher, not that they will.

If you want to lower the price of your book, you can do it in thirty seconds, without having to refer to a spreadsheet of passwords for five other ebook management interfaces.

How do ebooks cover the huge advances needed to buy books if we can not generate the cash, especially at their extremely low, discounted prices, cover the advances that an entire industry has come to require?

There are reasons that certain self - published authors have been able to make a boatload of money from pricing ebooks so low, and these things don't go unnoticed in the traditional publishing world.

It's just overwhelmingly irrational that Penguin are doing everything possible to attack and hurt their real customers — raise ebook prices, delay releases, keep ebook quality low — and at the same time are trying to reach people who don't read by releasing apps and games.

«What an author gets per copy is not adequate to conclude that they make more money in total... I don't see any correlation in the different direction of market share based on price increases... Amazon's bestseller list is comprised mostly by low priced or almost free titles, so it is not fair to conclude that Indy authors make more money by using this sample... more and more of the Big5 publishers have been re-designing their websites to sell ebooks and printed books it could be a reason for the effect into the decreased market share that they have on Amazon.»

I didn't realize the bigger publishers priced their ebooks that low.

With a 70 % royalty, an Ebook with a cover price of $ 4.99 nets me about the same as a paperback does with a cover price of $ 14.99, but the opportunity to sell more books at the lower price makes ebooks the way to go.

Amazon is already dropping its ebook prices to match Apple's, in the cases where Apple had priced a book lower than Amazon did.

They can't guarantee Apple that it will have the lowest price on their ebooks as they were able to do before the settlement.

There is one legitimate question about Amazon's analysis: It doesn't include the likelihood that lower priced ebooks cannibalize some print book sales.

PS: Make sure you do everything you can to keep ebook prices as low as possible (while not hurting authors).