Sentences with phrase «amount of ebooks sold»

There are a few huge factors that contribute to the copious amount of ebooks sold and downloaded over the last year.

Not exact matches

The publishers said they will «use a formula based on the number of states participating and the number of eBooks sold in each state» to determine amounts due, but did not specify how consumers will be reimbursed — by check, a discount on future purchases, or some other mechanism.

There's an insane amount of competition for consumers» attention, and only the luckiest, most heavily promoted, and best ebooks will sell in large quantities (by large quantities I mean in the hundreds or thousands; again a reason why publishers, in my view, should not be spending a lot of money creating and distributing ebooks if they expect a return on investment on most of their books).

I don't know of one author that we haven't reverted when the license was up, assuming we were out or low on stock and only selling minimal amounts of ebooks.

Not all publishers are pleased with the resulting income from their ebooks however, especially given the amount of marketing it takes to sell each individual ebook.

Statistically they don't sell a copious amount of eBooks, recently leaked investor slides show that in North America they are listed in the «other» category, which represent less than 4 % of eBook sales.

Amazon is one of those companies that never divulges specific dollar amounts or how many eBooks they have sold.

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.

Kobo controlled 50 % of the entire market and was the only company selling e-readers and selling a copious amount of ebooks.

And there is also fact that licences of ebooks can be depleted - resellers have time limited license or have finite amount of copies they can sell.

eBook lending clubs have been around the last three years and many of the websites have been sold due to the sheer amount of users attracted to Amazon Prime.

Prior to the Department of Justice investigation, the «wholesale model» allowed retailers to purchase the ebooks from the publishers and then sell them for any amount they chose, even if it meant taking a loss on the digital books.

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

What it means is that if your eBook sells for $ 9.99 U.S., to net the amount that you currently receive, you will need to increase your retail price approximate $ 2.00 in your European pricing... Read on: From Amazon: «This is a follow - up mail to remind you of the...

So you might need to sell three or four copies of an indie ebook to equal the dollar amount of one hardcover.

You make the same amount of money no matter what they sell it for, so if sales help people decide to buy your eBook, that's a good thing!

There is still an imprimatur of quality from going with a traditional publisher, and you may well sell more copies, particularly in physical, but you are giving a vast amount away for that: probably well over 90 % of the list price of the physical or ebook.

I've felt for a long time that what authors (agents) should work toward is a fixed amount - per - copy - sold as an ebook royalty and just get out of the percentages business on ebooks, which, as we know, can have their prices change on a frequent basis.

Crunching the numbers, I can sell more ebooks in a shorter amount of time than a Big 6 publisher can sell hardcover, s paperbacks, audiobooks, and ebooks, all combined.

I've compared the number of books I've sold through the Big 6, with their marketing machine behind me, and the amount of ebooks I've sold on my own.

When agency happened (2010), they started to offer indie authors what amounted to agency terms: 70 percent of the selling price for ebooks.

«Finally, publishers are putting up front huge amounts of money for trade books and on the back end the game is changing from shipping 100,000 units at $ 15 net (which we count as income) to now shipping 75,000 and selling ebooks one at a time at net $ 10 with no up front payments.»

I am all for amazon selling whatever for whatever $ amount they want — but they are not involved in how much the content COST the publisher (how much the author is being paid) J.K Rowling's latest or the newest in the DaVinci code series may cost a publisher considerably MORE$ $ than average (in advances or per copy royalties or % royalties) and Copyediting a 1000 page book costs more than a 400 page one — Amazon isn't just saying that they want to sell ebooks for no more than $ 9.99, they are saying they want to pay no more than (whatever %) of $ 9.99 per copy sold.

«Ownership's a big thing in e-reading and I've been selling a modest amount of my ebooks as DRM - free PDFs via Great Beast for the past few years, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that this move from Comixology will hit those direct sales.»

I mean seriously, it's been shown that authors can make serious amounts of money from selling cheap ebooks themselves.

For example, with Goddess of Vengeance, I think we sold an equal amount of hard covers and eBooks.