My thoughts today center
around eBook pricing.
Not exact matches
Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new
ebook releases at the wholesale
price of the hardcovers, then turning
around and selling them for retail at dollars less.
I noticed this
ebook in the Kindle Store, it had an interesting cover but the author had
priced it at
around $ 28.
I sell my
ebooks for $ 4.95, so the obvious
price point for an eARC would have been something similar, but I didn't think it'd be worth my time to set everything up, email people (I mistakenly, didn't think of automation this first time
around — more on that farther down), and deal with the inevitable «customer service» emails I'd get for $ 5.
Is it because lower
prices all
around encourage more
ebook buying overall?
When all these
eBook readers that are being created by countless companies
around the globe will hit the market, there will be a great rush, no doubt — especially on the lower
priced ones.
Some days it almost feels like I have too much power... And if I need to pick up a book immediately at its full
eBook price, usually
around $ 9.99, the purchasing process is dangerously simple.
His
prices now are, I think,
around [$ 240] for
ebook only and [$ 360] for the
ebook «front» cover and a full CreateSpace paperback cover as well.
What the standards are on
pricing and some of the «culture»
around eBooks consumption and distribution.
Potential authors may be interested to hear that XinXii offers up to 70 % cut of the sale
prices for
ebooks, which is quite better than the average, which is often closer to
around 40 % -50 %.
Rooted in one of the world's great publishing houses, the Faber Factory team have developed innovative ways to make sure
ebooks get out to multiple retailers in multiple formats
around the world, to monitor availability, sales and
pricing in real time, and to promote
ebooks to readers,» the press release stated.
And their track record is that they will keep
ebooks at paperback list
price plus
around $ 7.
Until that Netflix For
eBooks service pops up, you're going to have to shop
around a bit before your purchase if you want to land on the lowest
price.
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.
To summarize the information above:
Ebook retailers pay you around 65 to 70 percent of the retail price (that you set) if your ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $
Ebook retailers pay you
around 65 to 70 percent of the retail
price (that you set) if your
ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $
ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.
So, if your print book sells for $ 15.95, then
price your
eBook around $ 7.95 or less.
Also if you check
around, One reasion
ebooks are growing is that they offer a greater value to geeks / techheads, when you take the value away by jacking up the
price... well you can follow the logical path im sure......
It has been estimated that the alleged collusion between the publishers and the resulting requirement that Amazon raise its
ebook prices cost consumers
around $ 250 million.
Normally each is
around $ 2.99 and compared to the purchase
price of an
ebook ($ 10.00) you can see the advantage of using eBook F
ebook ($ 10.00) you can see the advantage of using
eBook F
eBook Fling.
(Since I usually
price based on word count, I expect I would go
around $ 6.95 for the
ebook on this one.)
And for an
ebook priced around $ 9.99, Kagi's slice drops to
around 15 %.
By recognizing
ebooks not as a commodity that can be bought, sold, and consumed, but rather as a service item with
pricing structures to go along with it, Atingo feels they have brought a whole new perspective on
ebook lending, one that can and should work
around the world.
The average sales per day across the Top 100 Children's
Ebooks were
around 50 copies per day at an average
price level of $ 4.80 at the time.
This new e-reader will be launched
around Fathers Day and have a
price - tag of $ 140 and include a $ 10.00 gift - card for the Kobo
ebook store.
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.
-- Traditional publishers are setting the
prices much higher for
ebooks also released in hardback, often matching the
price of the hardback, but usually keeping the
price of the electronic book
around the $ 17.99 range for a time after the hardback release.
I got a $ 14.99
eBook for $ 1.27, and a $ 12.99
eBook for like.70 cents because the Euro edition was already discounted with a list
price around $ 7.
I believe
eBook readers will be
around for a long time — if their
price drops to the
price of, say, a Gillette razor.
Apple's entry into the
ebook market «arrested all
ebook price competition,» Buterman concluded, arguing that any innovation in the space
around the time that the iBookstore launched either existed before the launch or couldn't be tied to it.
In 2015, the Big Five publishing houses raised
ebook prices to
around $ 8 a book, far higher than the $ 3 - a-book
price point independent publishers settled on.
First, to clarify what is happening here, Macmillan is already getting its money: Macmillan is selling
ebooks to Amazon at whatever
price it wants to set ($ 10 - $ 15), and Amazon is turning
around and selling them at a loss, sometimes for $ 9.99.
Writes Adam Rowe of Forbes, this may (MAY) have something to do with that nifty little move publishers made back in 2015 to raise
ebook prices: «In 2015, the Big Five publishing houses raised
ebook prices to
around $ 8 a book, far higher than the $ 3 - a-book
price point independent publishers settled on,» writes Rowe.
The [C$ 149]
price point is one of the lowest
around for an
ebook reader and compared to a couple of others I have tried lately I think the hardware on the Kobo eReader is better than most of these other devices.
Some would like to see the
price for a full - length novel in
ebook format hover
around $ 8 or $ 9.
But the article finally works its way
around to the million - dollar question: how is Amazon setting the
prices of
ebooks?
Just my, 02 We kicked
around the
pricing of our own
ebooks in the author support group that I belonged to early on, and pretty much agreed that $ 2 - 5 was the sweet spot for relative unknowns.
Because Amazon dropped the
price of the Kindle to $ 99
around this time, the demand for
eBooks shot up when inventory was low.
Further trials are planned for Rwanda and Kenya, but early findings suggest that
ebook readers would need to be reduced to a
price of
around $ 75 for the technology to become truly beneficial in third world classrooms.
In my wanderings
around the webnet I have found resources for images, media / marketing, and
Ebook covers that look amazing at a reasonable
price.
Then enter your metadata, set your
price for various currencies, and when you're ready, hit publish to bring your
eBook to Kobo customers
around the globe.
To coincide with this anniversary, I've shuffled some of my sales channels
around, and, more interestingly, lowered some
eBook prices.
Around half the list
price of the hardcover for the initial
ebook release.
A diminuitive, fast and well -
priced eBook reader that doesn't only meet its competition feature by feature but also offers a number of unique features besides being the one of the smaller yet most capable eReader devices
around.
Around 33 state attorneys general and the Department of Justice are looking to get up to $ 840m (# 501m) in damages out of Apple in the July trial, after District Judge Denise Cote found Apple complicit in the conspiracy to raise
ebook prices in an attempt to break Amazon's growing stranglehold on the fledgling market.
Going to your paragraph about relative cost to a two - hour movie — A two hour movie is generally about the same wordcount as a novella — novellas are frequently
priced at
around $ 2.99 in current
ebook systems, sometimes more like $ 1.99.
«With the average
price paid for these Amazon / self - published
ebooks still
around half the
price of
ebooks from «mainstream» publishers in all main categories, the overall
price paid for
ebooks fell by 1 percent in 2015.
If the Big Six traditional print - book publishers thought they could snooker readers into turning their backs on
ebooks and going back to a book business built
around exorbitantly
priced hardcover bestsellers, -LSB-...]
i'm not sure what you've read, but i know there's a lot of outright lies going
around in an attempt to justify
ebook pricing.
Publisher made Korean
ebooks are
priced at
around 10000 won (8.8 USD) individually, but Kyobo also offers a subscription service with discounts.
Rather, publishers are using a modified form of agency: They set an
ebook's list
price and pay the retailer a commission (Before the settlement went through, that commission was 30 percent; we don't know what the new retailer contracts dictate, but the commission is likely still
around 30 percent.)