Learn how to price an ebook by understanding what
affects ebook prices like author royalties, book length, and genre so you can stay competitive and profitable.
That's a good point about YA and their typical hardcover releases
affecting ebook prices.
Many factors
affect ebook pricing, including royalty percentages, your ebook's length and perceived quality, and other books in your genre.
Not exact matches
I've been hearing readers complain about rising
ebook prices and spotted more than a few at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet seen the numbers on how this
affects sales.
The trends in other industries will
affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for
price fixing (iBookstore
prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting
ebook prices in the long run.
Factors that
affect pricing an
ebook include royalty percentages, your
ebook's length and perceived quality, and the
prices of other books in your genre.
-LSB-...] time, we talked about our reading habits and whether the
price of an
ebook affects its ranking in our to - be-read pile.
Do
ebook prices affect whether you read a book?
An
ebook is an
ebook, and the print release shouldn't
affect pricing.
Learn how to calculate your
ebook royalties, plus how the online retailers» percentage and list
price affect your cut of book sales.
Ebook pricing, whose
prices are better, and how the agency
pricing model has
affected who sells what titles
You also should know that
ebook pricing affects royalties.
This new
price change will
affect close to 3,500
ebooks that are available for libraries to purchase.
And isn't it really the publishers who will be
affected by a major retailer's inability to sell
ebooks at comparable
prices, effectively hurting the authors as well?
This morning's panel discussion on the importance of
ebook pricing was polite but heated as the different panelists disagreed on the inherent built - in factors that
affect ebooks and their
price points.
At the Digital Book World conference in New York City, two industry leaders sat down and discussed the semantics of
ebook pricing, and how it is currently
affecting the industry and looking into the inner workings.
Some wondered if the problem was associated with agency
pricing — were only publishers who set their own
ebook prices affected?
And self - published authors set their own
ebook prices through Amazon's KDP, but those books weren't
affected, either.
There's something called Agency
pricing that
affects ebooks, too.
Also, the pending Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and other publishers over the «setting» of
ebook prices could
affect Amazon's distribution to Apple, even with the Ingram deal.
With regards to refund and
eBook purchases, have you ever wondered how your
pricing criteria
affect reader's behavior?
In the last two posts, we've looked at the goals you may have for your
ebook, the expectations your readers may have, and how these
affect pricing.
As was pointed out helpfully by DeFiore in WU discussion, the HarperCollins demonstration of
ebook profitability for News Corp backers that touched off the debate is «a simplistic look at a complex issue» because it represents one profit scenario devised for investors» eyes, an example that can be
affected and changed by «all kinds of
pricing experiments and
price points.»
Germany will soon finalize fixed
prices for
ebooks, but questions remain about how this will
affect sales models and
ebook adoption.